Riemannian SVRG: Fast Stochastic Optimization on Riemannian Manifolds

Hongyi Zhang, Sashank J. Reddi, Suvrit Sra

Neural Information Processing Systems 

We study optimization of finite sums of geodesically smooth functions on Riemannian manifolds. Although variance reduction techniques for optimizing finite-sums have witnessed tremendous attention in the recent years, existing work is limited to vector space problems.