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We study the approximation of high-dimensional rank one tensors using point evaluations and consider deterministic as well as randomized algorithms. We prove that for certain parameters (smoothness and norm of the $r$th derivative) this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Erich Novak , Daniel Rudolf

In this paper, we study the polynomial optimization problem of multi-forms over the intersection of the multi-spheres and the nonnegative orthants. This class of problems is NP-hard in general, and includes the problem of finding the best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Shenglong Hu , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

We study the decomposability and the subdifferential of the tensor nuclear norm. Both concepts are well understood and widely applied in matrices but remain unclear for higher-order tensors. We show that the tensor nuclear norm admits a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Jiewen Guan , Bo Jiang , Zhening Li

This paper studies tensor eigenvalue complementarity problems. Basic properties of standard and complementarity tensor eigenvalues are discussed. We formulate tensor eigenvalue complementarity problems as constrained polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Jinyan Fan , Jiawang Nie , Anwa Zhou

Tensors, or multi-linear forms, are important objects in a variety of areas from analytics, to combinatorics, to computational complexity theory. Notions of tensor rank aim to quantify the "complexity" of these forms, and are thus also…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mandar Juvekar , Arian Nadjimzadah

We show how the numerical range of a matrix can be used to bound the optimal value of certain optimization problems over real tensor product vectors. Our bound is stronger than the trivial bounds based on eigenvalues, and can be computed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Nathaniel Johnston , Logan Pipes

We construct a tensor network that delivers an unnormalized quantum state whose coefficients are the solutions to a given instance of 3SAT, an NP-complete problem. The tensor network contraction that corresponds to the norm of the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 A. Garcia-Saez , J. I. Latorre

We study tensor networks as a model of arithmetic computation for evaluating multilinear maps. These capture any algorithm based on low border rank tensor decompositions, such as $O(n^{\omega+\epsilon})$ time matrix multiplication, and in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Per Austrin , Petteri Kaski , Kaie Kubjas

We provide a nontrivial bound on the rank of any tensor $T$ over the quaternions $\mathbb{H}$ in the $n_1\times n_2\times n_3$ cases where $2\leq n_i\leq 3$. We describe a decomposition of $T$ into $3$ simple tensors in the $2\times 2\times…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2021-03-04 YG Liang , Sergio Da Silva , Yang Zhang

One of the main issues in computing a tensor decomposition is how to choose the number of rank-one components, since there is no finite algorithms for determining the rank of a tensor. A commonly used approach for this purpose is to find a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Claudio Turchetti

Eigenvectors of tensors, as studied recently in numerical multilinear algebra, correspond to fixed points of self-maps of a projective space. We determine the number of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a generic tensor, and we show that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Dustin Cartwright , Bernd Sturmfels

We consider eigenvalue condition numbers and backward errors for a class of symmetric nonlinear eigenvalue problems with eigenvector nonlinearities. For both of these quantities, we derive explicit and computable expressions that can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Vilhelm Peterson Lithell , Victor Janssens , Elias Jarlebring , Karl Meerbergen , Wim Michiels

This paper addresses two fundamental problems posed by Qi regarding the sufficiency of eigenvalues for the classification of symmetric tensors in the two-dimensional setting. For $2\times2\times2$ and $2\times2\times2\times2$ complex…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Lishan Fang , Hua-Lin Huang

The Tensor Isomorphism problem (TI) has recently emerged as having connections to multiple areas of research within complexity and beyond, but the current best upper bound is essentially the brute force algorithm. Being an algebraic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nicola Galesi , Joshua A. Grochow , Toniann Pitassi , Adrian She

One of my recent papers transforms an NP-Complete problem into the question of whether or not a feasible real solution exists to some Linear Program. The unique feature of this Linear Program is that though there is no explicit bound on the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-03-08 Deepak Ponvel Chermakani

Cs\'{a}ji, Jungers, and Blondel prove that while a PageRank optimization problem with edge selection constraints is NP-hard, it can be solved optimally in polynomial time for the unconstrained case. This theoretical result is accompanied by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Shang-Ru Yang , Yung-Han Liao , Chih-Ching Chien , Hao-Hsiang Wu

Finding the sparsest solutions to a tensor complementarity problem is generally NP-hard due to the nonconvexity and noncontinuity of the involved $\ell_0$ norm. In this paper, a special type of tensor complementarity problems with…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Ziyan Luo , Liqun Qi , Naihua Xiu

One of the central problems in the theory of linear complementarity problems (LCPs) is to study the class of $Q$-matrices since it characterizes the solvability of LCP. Recently, the concept of $Q$-matrix has been extended to the case of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Zheng-Hai Huang , Yun-Yang Suo , Jie Wang

Tensors are multidimensional analogs of matrices. In this paper, based on degree-theoretic ideas, we study homogeneous nonlinear complementarity problems induced by tensors. By specializing this to $Z$-tensors (which are tensors with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-02 M. Seetharama Gowda , Ziyan Luo , Liqun Qi , Naihua Xiu

We study the following combinatorial problem. Given a set of $n$ y-monotone curves, which we call wires, a tangle determines the order of the wires on a number of horizontal layers such that any two consecutive layers differ only in swaps…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Oksana Firman , Philipp Kindermann , Boris Klemz , Alexander Ravsky , Alexander Wolff , Johannes Zink