This is a guest post by Nicolas Boumal, a friend and collaborator from Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), now at Inria in Paris (France), who develops Manopt: a toolbox for optimization on manifolds.
Optimization on manifolds is about solving problems of the form
where is a nice, known manifold. By “nice”, I mean a smooth, finite-dimensional Riemannian manifold.
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