Research Article

Effective Algorithms for Solving Trace Minimization Problem in Multivariate Statistics

Algorithm 1

Riemannian Newton’s method for Problem 1.
(1)Choose an initial point .
(2)fordo
(3) Compute that satisfies and .
(4) Compute the partition matrix by Lemma 4 and the vector by (68). Compute that satisfies the symmetric linear equation (69).
(5) Partition as , where .
(6) Construct and that satisfy and .
(7) Compute .
(8) Compute the next iterate , where is a retraction on .
(9)end for