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Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely acknowledged as efficient for minimizing continuously differentiable functions in Euclidean spaces. In recent years, various CG methods have been extended to Riemannian manifold optimization, but…

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Distance functions are crucial in robotics for representing spatial relationships between a robot and its environment. They provide an implicit, continuous, and differentiable representation that integrates seamlessly with control,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yiming Li , Jiacheng Qiu , Sylvain Calinon

We propose a natural intrinsic extension of ridge regression from Euclidean spaces to general Riemannian manifolds for time-series prediction. Our approach combines Riemannian least-squares fitting via B\'ezier curves, empirical covariance…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Esfandiar Nava-Yazdani

We study the problem of finding the global Riemannian center of mass of a set of data points on a Riemannian manifold. Specifically, we investigate the convergence of constant step-size gradient descent algorithms for solving this problem.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-05 Bijan Afsari , Roberto Tron , René Vidal

In this paper, we give explicit descriptions of versions of (Local-) Backtracking Gradient Descent and New Q-Newton's method to the Riemannian setting.Here are some easy to state consequences of results in this paper, where X is a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Tuyen Trung Truong

The affine Grassmannian is a noncompact smooth manifold that parameterizes all affine subspaces of a fixed dimension. It is a natural generalization of Euclidean space, points being zero-dimensional affine subspaces. We will realize the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-26 Lek-Heng Lim , Ken Sze-Wai Wong , Ke Ye

Geodesic regression has been proposed for fitting the geodesic curve. However, it cannot automatically choose the dimensionality of data. In this paper, we develop a Bayesian geodesic regression model on Riemannian manifolds (BGRM) model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Youshan Zhang

Gaussian processes (GPs) and Gaussian random fields (GRFs) are essential for modelling spatially varying stochastic phenomena. Yet, the efficient generation of corresponding realisations on high-resolution grids remains challenging,…

Computation · Statistics 2024-12-12 Robert Kutri , Robert Scheichl

Estimating the geometric median of a dataset is a robust counterpart to mean estimation, and is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Recently, [HSU24] gave an $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithm obtaining an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Syamantak Kumar , Daogao Liu , Kevin Tian , Chutong Yang

All known algorithms for the Fr\'echet distance between curves proceed in two steps: first, they construct an efficient oracle for the decision version; second, they use this oracle to find the optimum from a finite set of critical values.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Rolf van Leusden , Wouter Meulemans , Wolfgang Mulzer

This study investigates the application of Riemannian geometry-based methods for brain decoding using invasive electrophysiological recordings. Although previously employed in non-invasive, the utility of Riemannian geometry for invasive…

The Euclidean space notion of convex sets (and functions) generalizes to Riemannian manifolds in a natural sense and is called geodesic convexity. Extensively studied computational problems such as convex optimization and sampling in convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-10 Navin Goyal , Abhishek Shetty

Random forests are a statistical learning method widely used in many areas of scientific research because of its ability to learn complex relationships between input and output variables and also its capacity to handle high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-19 Louis Capitaine , Jérémie Bigot , Rodolphe Thiébaut , Robin Genuer

We study the sublinear multivariate mean estimation problem in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. Specifically, we aim to find the mean $\mu$ of a ground point set $A$, which minimizes the sum of squared Euclidean distances of the points in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Beatrice Bertolotti , Matteo Russo , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Sudarshan Shyam

In this paper we provide faster algorithms for solving the geometric median problem: given $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ compute a point that minimizes the sum of Euclidean distances to the points. This is one of the oldest non-trivial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Michael B. Cohen , Yin Tat Lee , Gary Miller , Jakub Pachocki , Aaron Sidford

What is the shortest path between two data points lying in a high-dimensional space? While the answer is trivial in Euclidean geometry, it becomes significantly more complex when the data lies on a curved manifold -- requiring a Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Louis Béthune , David Vigouroux , Yilun Du , Rufin VanRullen , Thomas Serre , Victor Boutin

In this paper, we propose an acceleration of the exact k-means++ algorithm using geometric information, specifically the Triangle Inequality and additional norm filters, along with a two-step sampling procedure. Our experiments demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Guillem Rodríguez Corominas , Maria J. Blesa , Christian Blum

In this paper, we consider an approximation method, and a novel general analysis, for second-order elliptic differential equations with heterogeneous multiscale coefficients. We obtain convergence of the Generalized Multi-scale Finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Eduardo Abreu , Ciro Diaz , Juan Galvis

We study first-order optimization algorithms for computing the barycenter of Gaussian distributions with respect to the optimal transport metric. Although the objective is geodesically non-convex, Riemannian GD empirically converges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Jason M. Altschuler , Sinho Chewi , Patrik Gerber , Austin J. Stromme

We introduce a method for jointly registering ensembles of partitioned datasets in a way which is both geometrically coherent and partition-aware. Once such a registration has been defined, one can group partition blocks across datasets in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Tom Needham , Thomas Weighill