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Shape optimization based on the shape calculus is numerically mostly performed by means of steepest descent methods. This paper provides a novel framework to analyze shape-Newton optimization methods by exploiting a Riemannian perspective.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-14 Volker Schulz

We give curvature-dependant convergence rates for the optimization of weakly convex functions defined on a manifold of 1-bounded geometry via Riemannian gradient descent and via the dynamic trivialization algorithm. In order to do this, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Mario Lezcano-Casado

In this work, we present a novel approach for solving stochastic shape optimization problems. Our method is the extension of the classical stochastic gradient method to infinite-dimensional shape manifolds. We prove convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

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

Riemannian geometry provides the fundamental framework for optimization on nonlinear spaces such as matrix manifolds, which arise in machine learning, signal processing, and robotics. While the underlying theory is classical, existing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Benyamin Ghojogh

Bilevel optimization has gained prominence in various applications. In this study, we introduce a framework for solving bilevel optimization problems, where the variables in both the lower and upper levels are constrained on Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Andi Han , Bamdev Mishra , Pratik Jawanpuria , Akiko Takeda

In this paper, we shall study the existence of weak solutions to Hessian type equations on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Zhenan Sui , Wei Sun

The differential-geometric structure of the manifold of smooth shapes is applied to the theory of shape optimization problems. In particular, a Riemannian shape gradient with respect to the first Sobolev metric and the Steklov-Poincar\'{e}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Kathrin Welker

Variance parameter estimation in linear mixed models is a challenge for many classical nonlinear optimization algorithms due to the positive-definiteness constraint of the random effects covariance matrix. We take a completely novel view on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-20 Lena Sembach , Jan Pablo Burgard , Volker H. Schulz

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

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

Optimization with constraints is a typical problem in quantum physics and quantum information science that becomes especially challenging for high-dimensional systems and complex architectures like tensor networks. Here we use ideas of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Ilia A. Luchnikov , Mikhail E. Krechetov , Sergey N. Filippov

We consider a class of nonsmooth optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold, in which the objective function is weakly convex in the ambient Euclidean space. Such problems are ubiquitous in engineering applications but still largely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Xiao Li , Shixiang Chen , Zengde Deng , Qing Qu , Zhihui Zhu , Anthony Man Cho So

In this paper, we give a simple control on how an optimal shape can be characterized. The framework of Riemannian manifold of infinite dimension is essential. And the covariant derivative plays a key role in the computation and in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Ababacar Sadikhe Djité , Diaraf Seck

We consider optimization problems on manifolds with equality and inequality constraints. A large body of work treats constrained optimization in Euclidean spaces. In this work, we consider extensions of existing algorithms from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Changshuo Liu , Nicolas Boumal

We develop a new Riemannian descent algorithm that relies on momentum to improve over existing first-order methods for geodesically convex optimization. In contrast, accelerated convergence rates proved in prior work have only been shown to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Foivos Alimisis , Antonio Orvieto , Gary Bécigneul , Aurelien Lucchi

We introduce in this paper a manifold optimization framework that utilizes semi-Riemannian structures on the underlying smooth manifolds. Unlike in Riemannian geometry, where each tangent space is equipped with a positive definite inner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Tingran Gao , Lek-Heng Lim , Ke Ye

Optimization with orthogonality constraints frequently arises in various fields such as machine learning. Riemannian optimization offers a powerful framework for solving these problems by equipping the constraint set with a Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Andi Han , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

In this paper we develop an intrinsic formalism to study the topology, smooth structure, and Riemannian geometry of the Wasserstein space of a closed Riemannian manifold. Our formalism allows for a new characterisation of the Weak topology…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 André Magalhães de Sá Gomes , Christian S. Rodrigues , Luiz A. B. San Martin

In typical applications of Bayesian optimization, minimal assumptions are made about the objective function being optimized. This is true even when researchers have prior information about the shape of the function with respect to one or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-30 Michael Jauch , Víctor Peña
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