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Parabolic Relaxation for Quadratically-constrained Quadratic Programming -- Part I: Definitions & Basic Properties

Optimization and Control 2022-08-09 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

For general quadratically-constrained quadratic programming (QCQP), we propose a parabolic relaxation described with convex quadratic constraints. An interesting property of the parabolic relaxation is that the original non-convex feasible set is contained on the boundary of the parabolic relaxation. Under certain assumptions, this property enables one to recover near-optimal feasible points via objective penalization. Moreover, through an appropriate change of coordinates that requires a one-time computation of an optimal basis, the easier-to-solve parabolic relaxation can be made as strong as a semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation, which can be effective in accelerating algorithms that require solving a sequence of convex surrogates. The majority of theoretical and computational results are given in the next part of this work [57].

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@article{arxiv.2208.03622,
  title  = {Parabolic Relaxation for Quadratically-constrained Quadratic Programming -- Part I: Definitions & Basic Properties},
  author = {Ramtin Madani and Mersedeh Ashraphijuo and Mohsen Kheirandishfard and Alper Atamturk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03622},
  year   = {2022}
}

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