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We consider the matrix completion problem under a form of row/column weighted entrywise sampling, including the case of uniform entrywise sampling as a special case. We analyze the associated random observation operator, and prove that with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Sahand Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

We consider the problem of deriving from experimental data an approximation of an unknown function, whose derivatives also approximate the unknown function derivatives. Solving this problem is useful, for instance, in the context of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Carlo Novara , Angelo Nicolì , Giuseppe C. Calafiore

A novel optimization method is proposed to minimize a convex function subject to bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) constraints. The key idea is to decompose the bilinear mapping as a difference between two positive semidefinite convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-19 Quoc Tran Dinh , Suat Gumussoy , Wim Michiels , Moritz Diehl

Optimal control problems with discrete-valued inputs are inherently challenging due to their mixed-integer nature, rendering them generally intractable for real-time, safety-critical aerospace applications. Lossless convexification offers a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Felipe Arenas-Uribe , Hasan A. Poonawala , Jesse B. Hoagg

Matching and partitioning problems are fundamentals of computer vision applications with examples in multilabel segmentation, stereo estimation and optical-flow computation. These tasks can be posed as non-convex energy minimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Jonas Geiping , Fjedor Gaede , Hartmut Bauermeister , Michael Moeller

Studies on simulation input uncertainty often built on the availability of input data. In this paper, we investigate an inverse problem where, given only the availability of output data, we nonparametrically calibrate the input models and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Aleksandrina Goeva , Henry Lam , Huajie Qian , Bo Zhang

Finding the coordinate-wise maxima and the convex hull of a planar point set are probably the most classic problems in computational geometry. We consider these problems in the self-improving setting. Here, we have $n$ distributions…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Wolfgang Mulzer , C. Seshadhri

Distribution networks are usually multiphase and radial. To facilitate power flow computation and optimization, two semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations of the optimal power flow problem and a linear approximation of the power flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-13 Lingwen Gan , Steven H. Low

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology to enhance spatial multiplexing in wireless networks. This letter considers the discrete passive beamforming design for IRS in order to maximize the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Wenhai Lai , Zheyu Wu , Yi Feng , Kaiming Shen , Ya-Feng Liu

In this paper, we solve a maximization problem where the objective function is quadratic and convex or concave and the constraints set is the reachable value set of a convergent discrete-time affine system. Moreover, we assume that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Assalé Adjé

We consider the mixed regression problem with two components, under adversarial and stochastic noise. We give a convex optimization formulation that provably recovers the true solution, and provide upper bounds on the recovery errors for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-16 Yudong Chen , Xinyang Yi , Constantine Caramanis

In this paper, we present a novel control scheme for feedback optimization. That is, we propose a discrete-time controller that can steer the steady state of a physical plant to the solution of a constrained optimization problem without…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Verena Häberle , Adrian Hauswirth , Lukas Ortmann , Saverio Bolognani , Florian Dörfler

This paper addresses the problem of voltage regulation in power distribution networks with deep-penetration of distributed energy resources, e.g., renewable-based generation, and storage-capable loads such as plug-in hybrid electric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Baosen Zhang , Albert Y. S. Lam , Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia , David Tse

Semidefinite relaxations of polynomial optimization have become a central tool for addressing the non-convex optimization problems over non-commutative operators that are ubiquitous in quantum information theory and, more in general,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Younes Naceur , Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Antonio Acín

Synthesis of optimization algorithms typically follows a {\em design-then-analyze\/} approach, which can obscure fundamental performance limits and hinder the systematic development of algorithms that operate near these limits. Recently, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Ibrahim K. Ozaslan , Wuwei Wu , Jie Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Mihailo R. Jovanovic

Consider a database of $n$ people, each represented by a bit-string of length $d$ corresponding to the setting of $d$ binary attributes. A $k$-way marginal query is specified by a subset $S$ of $k$ attributes, and a $|S|$-dimensional binary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Cynthia Dwork , Aleksandar Nikolov , Kunal Talwar

Blind system identification is known to be an ill-posed problem and without further assumptions, no unique solution is at hand. In this contribution, we are concerned with the task of identifying an ARX model from only output measurements.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Henrik Ohlsson , Lillian J. Ratliff , Roy Dong , S. Shankar Sastry

Statistical inference problems arising within signal processing, data mining, and machine learning naturally give rise to hard combinatorial optimization problems. These problems become intractable when the dimensionality of the data is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-27 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

We present a gradient-based identification algorithm to identify the system matrices of a linear port-Hamiltonian system from given input-output time data. Aiming for a direct structure-preserving approach, we employ techniques from optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Michael Günther , Birgit Jacob , Claudia Totzeck

Motivated by modern regression applications, in this paper, we study the convexification of a class of convex optimization problems with indicator variables and combinatorial constraints on the indicators. Unlike most of the previous work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Linchuan Wei , Andres Gomez , Simge Kucukyavuz