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Researchers propose novel second-order method for Stiefel manifold optimization

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Researchers have developed a novel second-order optimization method for the Stiefel manifold that avoids retractions, offering improved efficiency for high-accuracy requirements. This method combines a tangent component to reduce the objective function and a normal component, constructed using the Newton-Schulz iteration for orthogonalization, to decrease infeasibility. Numerical experiments demonstrated superior performance compared to existing methods on problems like orthogonal Procrustes and principal component analysis. AI

IMPACT Introduces a more efficient optimization technique for problems involving orthogonal matrices, potentially benefiting machine learning algorithms that rely on such structures.

RANK_REASON This is a research paper detailing a new mathematical optimization method.

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Researchers propose novel second-order method for Stiefel manifold optimization

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Xinhui Xiong, Bin Gao, P. -A. Absil ·

    A second-order method on the Stiefel manifold via Newton$\unicode{x2013}$Schulz

    arXiv:2605.02838v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retraction-free approaches offer attractive low-cost alternatives to Riemannian methods on the Stiefel manifold, but they are often first-order, which may limit the efficiency under high-accuracy requirements. To this end, we prop…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · P. -A. Absil ·

    A second-order method on the Stiefel manifold via Newton$\unicode{x2013}$Schulz

    Retraction-free approaches offer attractive low-cost alternatives to Riemannian methods on the Stiefel manifold, but they are often first-order, which may limit the efficiency under high-accuracy requirements. To this end, we propose a second-order method landing on the Stiefel m…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    A second-order method on the Stiefel manifold via Newton$\unicode{x2013}$Schulz

    Retraction-free approaches offer attractive low-cost alternatives to Riemannian methods on the Stiefel manifold, but they are often first-order, which may limit the efficiency under high-accuracy requirements. To this end, we propose a second-order method landing on the Stiefel m…

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