@article{optimizationovercovariancematriceswithap, title = {Optimization over covariance matrices with a parameterized metric}, author = {Yibang Li and Bamdev Mishra and Pratik Jawanpuria and Cyrus Mostajeran}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2609.17089}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17089}, }