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Many computer vision problems can be formulated as binary quadratic programs (BQPs). Two classic relaxation methods are widely used for solving BQPs, namely, spectral methods and semidefinite programming (SDP), each with their own…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

In this paper, we study certifying the robustness of ReLU neural networks against adversarial input perturbations. To diminish the relaxation error suffered by the popular linear programming (LP) and semidefinite programming (SDP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Brendon G. Anderson , Ziye Ma , Jingqi Li , Somayeh Sojoudi

We present a new generic approach to the condensed-matter ground-state problem which is complementary to variational techniques and works directly in the thermodynamic limit. Relaxing the ground-state problem, we obtain semidefinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-08 Thomas Barthel , Robert Hübener

Localization is widely used in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to identify the current location of the sensor odes. A WSN consist of thousands of nodes that make the installation of GPS on each sensor node expensive and moreover GPS may not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Jeril Kuriakose , Sandeep Joshi , V. I. George

A network is called localizable if the positions of all the nodes of the network can be computed uniquely. If a network is localizable and embedded in plane with generic configuration, the positions of the nodes may be computed uniquely in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Buddhadeb Sau , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

We consider the problem of estimating the discrete clustering structures under the Sub-Gaussian Mixture Model. Our main results establish a hidden integrality property of a semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation for this problem: while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-05 Yingjie Fei , Yudong Chen

Semidefinite programming (SDP) provides a principled framework for convex relaxations of nonconvex geometric constraints in motion planning, yet existing solvers are too computationally expensive for real-time control, particularly on…

Given labeled points in a high-dimensional vector space, we seek a low-dimensional subspace such that projecting onto this subspace maintains some prescribed distance between points of differing labels. Intended applications include…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Culver McWhirter , Dustin G. Mixon , Soledad Villar

Density-adaptive domain discretization is essential for high-utility privacy-preserving analytics but remains challenging under Local Differential Privacy (LDP) due to the privacy-budget costs associated with iterative refinement. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alexey Kroshnin , Alexandra Suvorikova

In this paper, we show that the standard semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of altering current optimal power flow (AC OPF) can be equivalently reformulated as second-order cone programming (SOCP) relaxation with maximal clique- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Lingling Fan , Hossein Ghassempour Aghamolki , Zhixin Miao , Bo Zeng

We study the statistical performance of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for clustering under random graph models. Under the $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ Synchronization model, Censored Block Model and Stochastic Block Model, we show that SDP…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Yingjie Fei , Yudong Chen

In this paper, we introduce an intelligent prediction system for mobile source localization in industrial Internet of things. The position and velocity of mobile source are jointly predicted by using Time Delay (TD) measurements in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Hengnian Qi , Xiaoping Wu , Naixue Xiong

The use of convex relaxations has lately gained considerable interest in Power Systems. These relaxations play a major role in providing global optimality guarantees for non-convex optimization problems. For the Optimal Power Flow (OPF)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Hassan Hijazi , Carleton Coffrin , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Wireless sensing has become a fundamental enabler for intelligent environments, supporting applications such as human detection, activity recognition, localization, and vital sign monitoring. Despite rapid advances, existing datasets and…

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This paper proposes a dynamic sensor scheduling method for sensor networks. In sensor network applications, we often need multiple equally-informative node subsets that are activated sequentially to make a sensor network robust against…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Ryouke Ikura , Junya Hara , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka

Optimal power flow (OPF) is an important problem in the operation of electric power systems. Due to the OPF problem's non-convexity, there may exist multiple local optima. Certifiably obtaining the global solution is important for certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Alireza Barzegar , Daniel K. Molzahn , Rong Su

Recently, there has been significant interest in convex relaxations of the optimal power flow (OPF) problem. A semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation globally solves many OPF problems. However, there exist practical problems for which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Daniel K. Molzahn , Ian A. Hiskens

Place classification is a fundamental ability that a robot should possess to carry out effective human-robot interactions. It is a nontrivial classification problem which has attracted many research. In recent years, there is a high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Yiyi Liao , Sarath Kodagoda , Yue Wang , Lei Shi , Yong Liu

This paper considers a general data-fitting problem over a networked system, in which many computing nodes are connected by an undirected graph. This kind of problem can find many real-world applications and has been studied extensively in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Ying Zhang