diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 9c1cd5b..d42fc33 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Static = "aedffcd0-7271-4cad-89d0-dc628f76c6d3"
 
 [compat]
 BayesBase = "1.3"
-ExponentialFamily = "1.4.3"
+ExponentialFamily = "1.5.1"
 LinearAlgebra = "1.10"
 Manifolds = "0.9"
 ManifoldsBase = "0.15"
diff --git a/docs/src/index.md b/docs/src/index.md
index b58e96b..1002d99 100644
--- a/docs/src/index.md
+++ b/docs/src/index.md
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ ExponentialFamilyManifolds.partition_point
 ExponentialFamilyManifolds.ShiftedPositiveNumbers
 ExponentialFamilyManifolds.ShiftedNegativeNumbers
 ExponentialFamilyManifolds.SymmetricNegativeDefinite
+ExponentialFamilyManifolds.SinglePointManifold
 ```
 
 ## Optimization example
diff --git a/src/ExponentialFamilyManifolds.jl b/src/ExponentialFamilyManifolds.jl
index 390e9ff..2a82cad 100644
--- a/src/ExponentialFamilyManifolds.jl
+++ b/src/ExponentialFamilyManifolds.jl
@@ -5,12 +5,14 @@ using BayesBase, ExponentialFamily, ManifoldsBase, Manifolds, Random, LinearAlge
 include("symmetric_negative_definite.jl")
 include("shifted_negative_numbers.jl")
 include("shifted_positive_numbers.jl")
+include("single_point_manifold.jl")
 include("natural_manifolds.jl")
 
 include("natural_manifolds/bernoulli.jl")
 include("natural_manifolds/beta.jl")
 include("natural_manifolds/binomial.jl")
 include("natural_manifolds/chisq.jl")
+include("natural_manifolds/categorical.jl")
 include("natural_manifolds/dirichlet.jl")
 include("natural_manifolds/exponential.jl")
 include("natural_manifolds/gamma.jl")
diff --git a/src/natural_manifolds/categorical.jl b/src/natural_manifolds/categorical.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33c080c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/natural_manifolds/categorical.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+
+"""
+    get_natural_manifold_base(::Type{Categorical}, dims::Tuple{Int}, conditioner=nothing)
+
+Get the natural manifold base for the `Categorical` distribution.
+"""
+function get_natural_manifold_base(::Type{Categorical}, ::Tuple{}, conditioner=nothing)
+    return ProductManifold(
+        Euclidean(conditioner-1), SinglePointManifold([0])
+    )
+end
+
+"""
+    partition_point(::Type{Categorical}, dims::Tuple{Int}, p, conditioner=nothing)
+
+Converts the `point` to a compatible representation for the natural manifold of type `Categorical`.
+"""
+function partition_point(::Type{Categorical}, ::Tuple{}, p, conditioner=nothing)
+    return ArrayPartition(view(p, 1:conditioner-1), view(p, conditioner:conditioner))
+end
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diff --git a/src/single_point_manifold.jl b/src/single_point_manifold.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c36d81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/single_point_manifold.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+using ManifoldsBase
+using Random
+
+"""
+    SinglePointManifold(point)
+
+This manifold represents a set from one point.
+"""
+struct SinglePointManifold{T, R} <: AbstractManifold{ℝ}
+    point::T
+    representation_size::R
+end
+
+function SinglePointManifold(point::T) where {T}
+    return SinglePointManifold(point, size(point))
+end
+
+function Base.show(io::IO, M::SinglePointManifold)
+    print(io, "SinglePointManifold(", M.point, ")")
+end
+
+ManifoldsBase.manifold_dimension(::SinglePointManifold) = 0
+ManifoldsBase.representation_size(M::SinglePointManifold) = M.representation_size
+ManifoldsBase.injectivity_radius(M::SinglePointManifold) = zero(eltype(M.point))
+
+ManifoldsBase.default_retraction_method(::SinglePointManifold) = ExponentialRetraction()
+
+function ManifoldsBase.check_point(M::SinglePointManifold, p; kwargs...)
+    if !(p ≈ M.point)
+        return DomainError(p, "The point $(p) does not lie on $(M), which contains only $(M.point).")
+    end
+    return nothing
+end
+
+function ManifoldsBase.check_vector(M::SinglePointManifold, p, X; kwargs...)
+    if !iszero(X) && size(M.point) == size(X)
+        return DomainError(X, "The tangent space of $(M) contains only the zero vector.")
+    end
+    return nothing
+end
+
+ManifoldsBase.is_flat(::SinglePointManifold) = true
+
+ManifoldsBase.embed(::SinglePointManifold, p) = p
+ManifoldsBase.embed(::SinglePointManifold, p, X) = X
+
+function ManifoldsBase.inner(::SinglePointManifold, p, X, Y)
+    return zero(eltype(X))
+end
+
+function ManifoldsBase.exp!(M::SinglePointManifold, q, p, X, t::Number=1)
+    q .= M.point
+    return q
+end
+
+function ManifoldsBase.log!(::SinglePointManifold, X, p, q)
+    X .= zero(eltype(X))
+    return X
+end
+
+function ManifoldsBase.project!(::SinglePointManifold, Y, p, X)
+    fill!(Y, zero(eltype(Y)))
+    return Y
+end
+
+function ManifoldsBase.zero_vector!(::SinglePointManifold, X, p)
+    return fill!(X, zero(eltype(X)))
+end
+
+function Random.rand(M::SinglePointManifold; kwargs...)
+    return rand(Random.default_rng(), M; kwargs...)
+end
+
+function Random.rand(rng::AbstractRNG, M::SinglePointManifold; kwargs...)
+    return M.point
+end
diff --git a/test/natural_manifolds/categorical_tests.jl b/test/natural_manifolds/categorical_tests.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c613a20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/natural_manifolds/categorical_tests.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+@testitem "Check `Categorical` natural manifold" begin
+    include("natural_manifolds_setuptests.jl")
+    
+    test_natural_manifold() do rng
+        p = rand(rng, 10)
+        normalize!(p, 1)
+        return Categorical(p)
+    end
+end
+
+@testitem "Check that optimization work on Categorical" begin
+    include("natural_manifolds_setuptests.jl")
+
+    using Manopt, ForwardDiff
+    using BayesBase
+
+    rng = StableRNG(42)
+    p = rand(StableRNG(42), 10)
+    normalize!(p, 1)
+    distribution = Categorical(p)
+    sample = rand(rng, distribution)
+    dims = size(sample)
+    ef = convert(ExponentialFamilyDistribution, distribution)
+    T = ExponentialFamily.exponential_family_typetag(ef)
+    M = get_natural_manifold(T, dims, getconditioner(ef))
+
+    function f(M, p)
+        ef = convert(ExponentialFamilyDistribution, M, p)
+        η = getnaturalparameters(ef)
+        return (mean(η) - 0.5)^2
+    end
+
+    function g(M, p)
+        return project(M, p, 2 * p ./ 10)
+    end
+
+    q = gradient_descent(M, f, g, rand(rng, M))
+    @test q ∈ M
+    @test mean(q) ≈ 0.5 atol = 1e-1
+end
diff --git a/test/single_point_manifold_tests.jl b/test/single_point_manifold_tests.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f18a17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/single_point_manifold_tests.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+@testitem "Generic properties of SinglePointManifold" begin
+    import ManifoldsBase: check_point, check_vector, embed, representation_size, injectivity_radius, get_embedding, is_flat, inner, manifold_dimension
+    import ExponentialFamilyManifolds: SinglePointManifold
+    using ManifoldsBase, Static, StaticArrays, JET, Manifolds
+    using StableRNGs
+    using Random
+
+    rng = StableRNG(42)
+
+
+    points = [
+        0,
+        0.0,
+        0.0f0,
+        1,
+        1.0,
+        1.0f0, 
+        -1,
+        2,
+        π,
+        rand(),
+        randn()
+    ]
+
+    for p in points
+        M = SinglePointManifold(p)
+
+        @test repr(M) == "SinglePointManifold($p)"
+
+        @test @inferred(representation_size(M)) === ()
+        @test @inferred(manifold_dimension(M)) === 0
+        @test @inferred(is_flat(M)) === true
+        @test injectivity_radius(M) ≈ 0
+        @test default_retraction_method(M) == ExponentialRetraction()
+     
+        @test_throws MethodError get_embedding(M)
+
+        @test check_point(M, p) === nothing
+        @test check_point(M, p + 1) isa DomainError
+        @test check_point(M, p - 1) isa DomainError
+
+        @test check_vector(M, p, 0) === nothing
+        @test check_vector(M, p, 1) isa DomainError
+        @test check_vector(M, p, -1) isa DomainError
+
+        @test @eval(@allocated(representation_size($M))) === 0
+        @test @eval(@allocated(manifold_dimension($M))) === 0
+        @test @eval(@allocated(is_flat($M))) === 0
+
+        X = [1]
+        Y = [1]
+
+        @test_opt inner(M, p, X, Y)
+        @test_opt inner(M, p, 0, 0)
+
+        @test embed(M, p) == p
+        @test embed(M, p, 0) == 0
+        @test inner(M, p, 0, 0) == 0
+    end
+
+    vector_points = [[1], [1, 2], [1, 2, 3]]
+
+    for p in vector_points
+        M = SinglePointManifold(p)
+        q = similar(p)
+        X = zero_vector(M, p)
+        @test ManifoldsBase.exp!(M, q, p, X) == p
+        @test ManifoldsBase.log!(M, X, p, p) == zero_vector(M, p)
+        @test ManifoldsBase.log(M, p, p) == zero_vector(M, p)
+        @test ManifoldsBase.project!(M, similar(X), p, similar(X)) == zero_vector(M, p)
+        @test rand(rng, M) ∈ M
+        @test rand(M) ∈ M
+    end
+end
+
+@testitem "Simple manifold optimization problem #1" begin
+    using Manopt, ForwardDiff, Static, StableRNGs, LinearAlgebra
+
+    import ExponentialFamilyManifolds: SinglePointManifold
+
+    for a in (2.0, 3.0),
+        b in (10.0, 5.0),
+        c in (1.0, 10.0, -1.0),
+        eps in (1e-4, 1e-5, 1e-8, 1e-10),
+        stepsize in (ConstantStepsize(0.1), ConstantStepsize(0.01), ConstantStepsize(0.001))
+
+        f(M, x) = (a .* x .^ 2 .+ b .* x .+ c)[1]
+        grad_f(M, x) = 2 .* a .* x .+ b
+
+        rng = StableRNG(42)
+
+        for s in [0, 0.0, 10]
+            M = SinglePointManifold(s)
+            p0 = rand(rng, M)
+
+            q1 = gradient_descent(
+                M,
+                f,
+                grad_f,
+                p0;
+                stepsize=stepsize,
+                stopping_criterion=StopAfterIteration(1)
+            )
+
+            @test q1 ≈ s
+        end
+    end
+end
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