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In this paper, we consider a class of structured nonsmooth optimization problems over an embedded submanifold of a Euclidean space, where the first part of the objective is the sum of a difference-of-convex (DC) function and a smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Qia Li , Na Zhang , Junyu Feng , Hanwei Yan

We describe the first gradient methods on Riemannian manifolds to achieve accelerated rates in the non-convex case. Under Lipschitz assumptions on the Riemannian gradient and Hessian of the cost function, these methods find approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Christopher Criscitiello , Nicolas Boumal

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

We focus on a class of non-smooth optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold in the decentralized setting, where a connected network of $n$ agents cooperatively minimize a finite-sum objective function with each component being weakly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Jinxin Wang , Jiang Hu , Shixiang Chen , Zengde Deng , Anthony Man-Cho So

Riemannian optimization uses local methods to solve optimization problems whose constraint set is a smooth manifold. A linear step along some descent direction usually leaves the constraints, and hence retraction maps are used to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Alexander Heaton , Matthias Himmelmann

In this paper, we propose a Riemannian smoothing steepest descent method to minimize a nonconvex and non-Lipschitz function on submanifolds. The generalized subdifferentials on Riemannian manifold and the Riemannian gradient sub-consistency…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Chao Zhang , Xiaojun Chen , Shiqian Ma

Riemannian optimization is a principled framework for solving optimization problems where the desired optimum is constrained to a smooth manifold $\mathcal{M}$. Algorithms designed in this framework usually require some geometrical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Boris Shustin , Haim Avron , Barak Sober

Numerous problems in optics, quantum physics, stability analysis, and control of dynamical systems can be brought to an optimization problem with matrix variable subjected to the symplecticity constraint. As this constraint nicely forms a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Bin Gao , Nguyen Thanh Son , Tatjana Stykel

This paper presents a perturbation analysis framework for nonsmooth optimization on connected Riemannian manifolds to bridge the gap between the rapid development of algorithmic approaches and a robust theoretical foundation. Using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Yuexin Zhou , Chao Ding , Yangjing Zhang

Derivative-free Riemannian optimization (DFRO) aims to minimize an objective function using only function evaluations, under the constraint that the decision variables lie on a Riemannian manifold. The rapid increase in problem dimensions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Timothé Taminiau , Estelle Massart , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

This paper proposes a Riemannian Multiobjective Proximal Gradient Method (RMPGM) for composite optimization problems on manifolds. Unlike scalarization-based approaches, the proposed framework directly handles vector-valued objectives and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Kangming Chen

Gradient descent methods are fundamental first-order optimization algorithms in both Euclidean spaces and Riemannian manifolds. However, the exact gradient is not readily available in many scenarios. This paper proposes a novel inexact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Juan Zhou , Kangkang Deng , Hongxia Wang , Zheng Peng

The subgradient method for convex optimization problems on complete Riemannian manifolds with lower bounded sectional curvature is analyzed in this paper. Iteration-complexity bounds of the subgradient method with exogenous step-size and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-21 O. P. Ferreira , M. S. Louzeiro , L. F. Prudente

We propose a stochastic variance-reduced cubic regularized Newton algorithm to optimize the finite-sum problem over a Riemannian submanifold of the Euclidean space. The proposed algorithm requires a full gradient and Hessian update at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Dewei Zhang , Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh

We consider the proximal gradient method on Riemannian manifolds for functions that are possibly not geodesically convex. Starting from the forward-backward-splitting, we define an intrinsic variant of the proximal gradient method that uses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Ronny Bergmann , Hajg Jasa , Paula John , Max Pfeffer

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

We consider the problem of decentralized nonconvex optimization over a compact submanifold, where each local agent's objective function defined by the local dataset is smooth. Leveraging the powerful tool of proximal smoothness, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Kangkang Deng , Jiang Hu

This paper aims to investigate the distributed stochastic optimization problems on compact embedded submanifolds (in the Euclidean space) for multi-agent network systems. To address the manifold structure, we propose a distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Jishu Zhao , Xi Wang , Jinlong Lei , Shixiang Chen

This paper presents the first optimal-rate $p$-th order methods with $p\geq 1$ for finding first and second-order stationary points of non-convex smooth objective functions over Riemannian manifolds. In contrast to the geodesically convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 David Huckleberry Gutman , George Lobo

Riemannian optimization is concerned with problems, where the independent variable lies on a smooth manifold. There is a number of problems from numerical linear algebra that fall into this category, where the manifold is usually specified…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Rasmus Jensen , Ralf Zimmermann