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Autori principali: Wang, Lei, Chen, Xiaojun
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Wang, Lei
Chen, Xiaojun
author_facet Wang, Lei
Chen, Xiaojun
contents We study a class of optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, where the objective function consists of a smooth term and quasi-norm type penalties with exponent $p \in (0, 1]$. The essential difficulty lies in the fact that the objective function may not be locally Lipschitz continuous, which places this type of problems beyond the reach of existing Riemannian techniques. To overcome this obstacle, this paper constructs a general smoothing framework and establishes fundamental properties for developing efficient algorithms. In particular, we propose a smoothing Riemannian gradient algorithm equipped with a smoothing-aware AdaGrad-type stepsize rule. Its global convergence is demonstrated together with an iteration complexity of $O (ε^{p - 4})$, which includes the best available iteration complexity of $O (ε^{- 3})$ for Lipschitz problems with $p = 1$ as a special case. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first complexity result for non-Lipschitz optimization on Riemannian manifolds. Preliminary numerical experiments corroborate the practical efficiency of the proposed approach in real-world applications arsing from machine learning and data science.
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spellingShingle An Adaptive Smoothing Algorithm for Non-Lipschitz Optimization on Manifolds with Complexity Guarantees
Wang, Lei
Chen, Xiaojun
Optimization and Control
We study a class of optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, where the objective function consists of a smooth term and quasi-norm type penalties with exponent $p \in (0, 1]$. The essential difficulty lies in the fact that the objective function may not be locally Lipschitz continuous, which places this type of problems beyond the reach of existing Riemannian techniques. To overcome this obstacle, this paper constructs a general smoothing framework and establishes fundamental properties for developing efficient algorithms. In particular, we propose a smoothing Riemannian gradient algorithm equipped with a smoothing-aware AdaGrad-type stepsize rule. Its global convergence is demonstrated together with an iteration complexity of $O (ε^{p - 4})$, which includes the best available iteration complexity of $O (ε^{- 3})$ for Lipschitz problems with $p = 1$ as a special case. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first complexity result for non-Lipschitz optimization on Riemannian manifolds. Preliminary numerical experiments corroborate the practical efficiency of the proposed approach in real-world applications arsing from machine learning and data science.
title An Adaptive Smoothing Algorithm for Non-Lipschitz Optimization on Manifolds with Complexity Guarantees
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18325