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Accelerated First-Order Optimization with Orthogonality Constraints
- Siegel, Jonathan
- Advisor(s): Caflisch, Russel E
Abstract
Optimization problems with orthogonality constraints have many applications in science and engineering.
In these applications, one often deals with large-scale problems which are ill-conditioned near the optimum.
Consequently, there is a need for first-order optimization methods which deal with orthogonality constraints,
converge rapidly even when the objective is not well-conditioned, and are robust.
In this dissertation we develop a generalization of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent algorithm for optimization on the
manifold of orthonormal matrices. The performance of the algorithm scales with the square root of the condition number.
As a result, our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art algorithms on large, ill-conditioned problems.
We discuss applications of the method to electronic structure calculations and to the calculation of compressed modes.
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