We study asynchronous optimization for finite-sum eigenspace computation in heterogeneous distributed systems. The theoretical foundations for asynchronous eigenspace computation remain scarce, with existing approaches offering limited coverage of dynamics directly on the Grassmannian under stale information. In this paper, we propose a Grassmannian incremental aggregation method that refreshes only arriving components and reuses cached gradients, retaining low per-update cost without global synchronization. The method employs an extrinsic polar update that preserves the intrinsic subspace geometry without requiring parallel transport of stale tangent vectors. Our analysis establishes a tight angle-dependent gradient-dominance characterization of the objective and a basin-invariance property for stale aggregated updates. These yield two-phase linear convergence, comprising an explicit broad-basin regime and a sharper local regime, with constants controlled by component spectral spreads. Experiments on serial and distributed PCA demonstrate improved sample efficiency and wall-clock convergence over representative baselines.
Distributed principal component analysis (PCA) produces node-level estimates of both a mean vector and a principal subspace. Robustly aggregating these heterogeneous objects requires a relative scale between mean error and subspace error. We study a scale-calibrated median-of-means estimator for this problem using the product geometry of Euclidean space and the Grassmann manifold. A node-level PCA expansion shows that the mean component has the usual linear influence, whereas the subspace component is an eigengap-weighted covariance perturbation. We prove a local reduction showing that the proposed product-manifold median-of-means estimator is asymptotically equivalent to a scaled spatial median of node influence errors. This yields fixed-node non-Gaussian limits, growing-node Gaussian limits with finite-block bias, and an explicit scale-dependent covariance formula. We propose robust block-scale and inference-optimal calibration rules, establish high-probability median-of-means bounds, characterize factorwise bad-node influence, and prove node-bootstrap validity. Simulations and large-scale single-cell RNA-seq data show that scale calibration adapts to eigengap-driven subspace uncertainty and provides a robust distributed PCA summary.