Manopt 5.0, toolbox release: Optimization on Manifolds: - implementation -

Nicolas just sent me the following:

Dear Igor,

Bamdev (cc) and I just released Manopt 5.0, our Matlab toolbox for optimization on manifolds:

http://www.manopt.org/downloads.html

We would be delighted if you could announce this major release on your blog once again.

Manopt is a toolbox for optimization on manifolds, with major applications in machine learning and computer vision (low rank constraints, orthogonal matrices, rotations, positive definite matrices, ...). Of course, Manopt can also optimize over linear spaces (and it's quite good at it).

The toolbox is user friendly, requiring little knowledge about manifolds to get started. See our tutorial and the many examples in the release:

http://www.manopt.org/tutorial.html

Highlight -- this release brings:

• improvements to caching which speed up all algorithms
• GPU support for some manifolds
• new ways to count things, for example cost function calls or big matrix-vector products
• a new solver: adaptive regularization by cubics (with Naman Agarwal, Brian Bullins and Coralia Cartis)

Thanks!

Nicolas and Bamdev

Thanks Nicolas  !

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