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Latent variable models are powerful tools for learning low-dimensional manifolds from high-dimensional data. However, when dealing with constrained data such as unit-norm vectors or symmetric positive-definite matrices, existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Leonel Rozo , Miguel González-Duque , Noémie Jaquier , Søren Hauberg

In image set classification, a considerable advance has been made by modeling the original image sets by second order statistics or linear subspace, which typically lie on the Riemannian manifold. Specifically, they are Symmetric Positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Rui Wang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Kai-Xuan Chen , Josef Kittler

In this work, we establish non-asymptotic convergence bounds for the Gauss-Newton method in training neural networks with smooth activations. In the underparameterized regime, the Gauss-Newton gradient flow in parameter space induces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Semih Cayci

This paper focus on investigating the distributed Riemannian stochastic optimization problem on the Stiefel manifold for multi-agent systems, where all the agents work collaboratively to optimize a function modeled by the average of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Jishu Zhao , Xi Wang , Jinlong Lei

Minimizing loss functions is central to machine-learning training. Although first-order methods dominate practical applications, higher-order techniques such as Newton's method can deliver greater accuracy and faster convergence, yet are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Giuseppe Carrino , Elena Loli Piccolomini , Elisa Riccietti , Theo Mary

In this paper, we generalize (accelerated) Newton's method with cubic regularization under inexact second-order information for (strongly) convex optimization problems. Under mild assumptions, we provide global rate of convergence of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Saeed Ghadimi , Han Liu , Tong Zhang

Several important algorithms for machine learning and data analysis use pairwise distances as input. On Riemannian manifolds these distances may be prohibitively costly to compute, in particular for large datasets. To tackle this problem,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Philipp Harms , Elodie Maignant , Stefan Schlager

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chunming Tang , Shaohui Liang , Huangyue Chen

Low-rank optimization problems with sparse simplex constraints involve variables that must satisfy nonnegativity, sparsity, and sum-to-1 conditions, making their optimization particularly challenging due to the interplay between low-rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Flavia Esposito , Andersen Ang

In this paper, a globally convergent Newton-type proximal gradient method is developed for composite multi-objective optimization problems where each objective function can be represented as the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

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

Quasi-Newton methods are well known techniques for large-scale numerical optimization. They use an approximation of the Hessian in optimization problems or the Jacobian in system of nonlinear equations. In the Interior Point context,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Jacek Gondzio , Francisco N. C. Sobral

In mathematical optimization, second-order Newton's methods generally converge faster than first-order methods, but they require the inverse of the Hessian, hence are computationally expensive. However, we discover that on sparse graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Nima Dehmamy , Csaba Both , Jianzhi Long , Rose Yu

When dealing with a parametric statistical model, a Riemannian manifold can naturally appear by endowing the parameter space with the Fisher information metric. The geometry induced on the parameters by this metric is then referred to as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Florent Bouchard , Arnaud Breloy , Antoine Collas , Alexandre Renaux , Guillaume Ginolhac

In recent years, various subspace algorithms have been developed to handle large-scale optimization problems. Although existing subspace Newton methods require fewer iterations to converge in practice, the matrix operations and full…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Taisei Miyaishi , Ryota Nozawa , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

Newton's method is the most widespread high-order method, demanding the gradient and the Hessian of the objective function. However, one of the main disadvantages of Newtons method is its lack of global convergence and high iteration cost.…

Deep learning involves a difficult non-convex optimization problem with a large number of weights between any two adjacent layers of a deep structure. To handle large data sets or complicated networks, distributed training is needed, but…

A damped Newton's method to find a singularity of a vector field in Riemannian setting is presented with global convergence study. It is ensured that the sequence generated by the proposed method reduces to a sequence generated by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-20 M. A. A. Bortoloti , T. A. Fernandes , O. P. Ferreira , Jinyun Yuan

A Newton-type active set algorithm for large-scale minimization subject to polyhedral constraints is proposed. The algorithm consists of a gradient projection step, a second-order Newton-type step in the null space of the constraint matrix,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 William W. Hager , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh

In this work, we consider the bilevel optimization problem on Riemannian manifolds. We inspect the calculation of the hypergradient of such problems on general manifolds and thus enable the utilization of gradient-based algorithms to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Jiaxiang Li , Shiqian Ma