Hi, I try to optimize a simple quadratic function on a user-defined manifold (the hyperplan orthogonal to ones(n)) with the following code using Optim const c = ones(2) ./ sqrt(2) f(x) = 0.5 * sum((x - c).^2) g!(g,x) = g[:] = x - c struct HypOne <: Manifold end retract!(S::HypOne, x) = (x ./= sum…

The error reports that it does not “find” your defined methods, not that they are not good. The reason is, that you define them in your main scope, which in short is a different namespace than the one from Optim. One could in short say that is for safety reasons. To actually add methods to Optim.re…

Optim.jl : user defined Manifold, error in the definition of the retraction

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aitzkora June 29, 2025, 8:49pm 3

Thanks, it solved my problem.

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Optim.jl : user defined Manifold, error in the definition of the retraction

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