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Implementing geodesic distance for numerical optimization #3

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In https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19397 it is argued that the "correct" cost function to do gradient descent is

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It would be nice to implement this cost function with gradients in jax. Note that jax does not have a differentiable matrix log function. However, one can go very far using their schur decomposition.

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