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We propose an inexact optimization algorithm on Riemannian manifolds, motivated by quadratic discrimination tasks in high-dimensional, low-sample-size (HDLSS) imaging settings. In such applications, gradient evaluations are often biased due…

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We propose an approach based on machine learning to solve two-stage linear adaptive robust optimization (ARO) problems with binary here-and-now variables and polyhedral uncertainty sets. We encode the optimal here-and-now decisions, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dimitris Bertsimas , Cheol Woo Kim

Adam has become one of the most popular optimizers for training modern deep neural networks, such as transformers. However, its applicability is largely restricted to single-level optimization problems. In this paper, we aim to extend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xiaochuan Gong , Jie Hao , Mingrui Liu

Adaptive stochastic gradient algorithms in the Euclidean space have attracted much attention lately. Such explorations on Riemannian manifolds, on the other hand, are relatively new, limited, and challenging. This is because of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Hiroyuki Kasai , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

This paper proposes a general framework of Riemannian adaptive optimization methods. The framework encapsulates several stochastic optimization algorithms on Riemannian manifolds and incorporates the mini-batch strategy that is often used…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Hiroyuki Sakai , Hideaki Iiduka

In this paper, we propose AdaBB, an adaptive gradient method based on the Barzilai-Borwein stepsize. The algorithm is line-search-free and parameter-free, and essentially provides a convergent variant of the Barzilai-Borwein method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Danqing Zhou , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

The Wasserstein distance has become increasingly important in machine learning and deep learning. Despite its popularity, the Wasserstein distance is hard to approximate because of the curse of dimensionality. A recently proposed approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Minhui Huang , Shiqian Ma , Lifeng Lai

We consider a class of Riemannian optimization problems where the objective is the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth function, considered in the ambient space. This class of problems finds important applications in machine learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Jiaxiang Li , Shiqian Ma , Tejes Srivastava

This paper considers the robust phase retrieval, which can be cast as a nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problem. We propose two first-order algorithms with adaptive step sizes: the subgradient algorithm (AdaSubGrad) and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Zhong Zheng , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue

Bilevel optimization (BO) has recently gained prominence in many machine learning applications due to its ability to capture the nested structure inherent in these problems. Recently, many hypergradient methods have been proposed as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Wanli Shi , Yi Chang , Bin Gu

We present adaptive gradient methods (both basic and accelerated) for solving convex composite optimization problems in which the main part is approximately smooth (a.k.a. $(\delta, L)$-smooth) and can be accessed only via a (potentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Anton Rodomanov , Xiaowen Jiang , Sebastian Stich

In this paper, we propose a variant of Riemannian stochastic recursive gradient method that can achieve second-order convergence guarantee and escape saddle points using simple perturbation. The idea is to perturb the iterates when gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Andi Han , Junbin Gao

The steepest descent method for multiobjective optimization on Riemannian manifolds with lower bounded sectional curvature is analyzed in this paper. The aim of the paper is twofold. Firstly, an asymptotic analysis of the method is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Orizon P. Ferreira , Maurício S. Louzeiro , Leandro F. Prudente

Novel convergence analyses are presented of Riemannian stochastic gradient descent (RSGD) on a Hadamard manifold. RSGD is the most basic Riemannian stochastic optimization algorithm and is used in many applications in the field of machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Hiroyuki Sakai , Hideaki Iiduka

Bilevel optimization plays an essential role in many machine learning tasks, ranging from hyperparameter optimization to meta-learning. Existing studies on bilevel optimization, however, focus on either centralized or synchronous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yang Jiao , Kai Yang , Tiancheng Wu , Dongjin Song , Chengtao Jian

We present a method for solving general nonconvex-strongly-convex bilevel optimization problems. Our method -- the \emph{Restarted Accelerated HyperGradient Descent} (\texttt{RAHGD}) method -- finds an $\epsilon$-first-order stationary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Haikuo Yang , Luo Luo , Chris Junchi Li , Michael I. Jordan

Stochastic optimisation in Riemannian manifolds, especially the Riemannian stochastic gradient method, has attracted much recent attention. The present work applies stochastic optimisation to the task of recursive estimation of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Jialun Zhou , Salem Said

We propose the first global accelerated gradient method for Riemannian manifolds. Toward establishing our result we revisit Nesterov's estimate sequence technique and develop an alternative analysis for it that may also be of independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Kwangjun Ahn , Suvrit Sra

Optimization problems with access to only zeroth-order information of the objective function on Riemannian manifolds arise in various applications, spanning from statistical learning to robot learning. While various zeroth-order algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Chang He , Zhaoye Pan , Xiao Wang , Bo Jiang

Riemannian optimization has drawn a lot of attention due to its wide applications in practice. Riemannian stochastic first-order algorithms have been studied in the literature to solve large-scale machine learning problems over Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Bokun Wang , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue