Min-Max Grassmannian Optimization for Online Subspace Tracking

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Autori principali: Bharadwaj, Shreyas, Mishra, Bamdev, Mostajeran, Cyrus, Padoan, Alberto, Coulson, Jeremy, Banavar, Ravi
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Bharadwaj, Shreyas
Mishra, Bamdev
Mostajeran, Cyrus
Padoan, Alberto
Coulson, Jeremy
Banavar, Ravi
author_facet Bharadwaj, Shreyas
Mishra, Bamdev
Mostajeran, Cyrus
Padoan, Alberto
Coulson, Jeremy
Banavar, Ravi
contents This paper discusses robustness guarantees for online tracking of time-varying subspaces from noisy data. Building on recent work in optimization over a Grassmannian manifold, we introduce a new approach for robust subspace tracking by modeling data uncertainty in a Grassmannian ball. The robust subspace tracking problem is cast into a min-max optimization framework, for which we derive a closed-form solution for the worst-case subspace, enabling a geometric robustness adjustment that is both analytically tractable and computationally efficient, unlike iterative convex relaxations. The resulting algorithm, GeRoST (Geometrically Robust Subspace Tracking), is validated on two case studies: tracking a linear time-varying system and online foreground-background separation in video.
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spellingShingle Min-Max Grassmannian Optimization for Online Subspace Tracking
Bharadwaj, Shreyas
Mishra, Bamdev
Mostajeran, Cyrus
Padoan, Alberto
Coulson, Jeremy
Banavar, Ravi
Systems and Control
Optimization and Control
This paper discusses robustness guarantees for online tracking of time-varying subspaces from noisy data. Building on recent work in optimization over a Grassmannian manifold, we introduce a new approach for robust subspace tracking by modeling data uncertainty in a Grassmannian ball. The robust subspace tracking problem is cast into a min-max optimization framework, for which we derive a closed-form solution for the worst-case subspace, enabling a geometric robustness adjustment that is both analytically tractable and computationally efficient, unlike iterative convex relaxations. The resulting algorithm, GeRoST (Geometrically Robust Subspace Tracking), is validated on two case studies: tracking a linear time-varying system and online foreground-background separation in video.
title Min-Max Grassmannian Optimization for Online Subspace Tracking
topic Systems and Control
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00825