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In this paper, we address the problem of minimizing a convex function f over a convex set, with the extra constraint that some variables must be integer. This problem, even when f is a piecewise linear function, is NP-hard. We study an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-05 Michel Baes , Timm Oertel , Christian Wagner , Robert Weismantel

In pure integer linear programming it is often desirable to work with polyhedra that are full-dimensional, and it is well known that it is possible to reduce any polyhedron to a full-dimensional one in polynomial time. More precisely, using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Alberto Del Pia

We construct a convergent family of outer approximations for the problem of optimizing polynomial functions over convex bodies subject to polynomial constraints. This is achieved by generalizing the polarization hierarchy, which has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Martin Plávala , Laurens T. Ligthart , David Gross

We consider the question of which nonconvex sets can be represented exactly as the feasible sets of mixed-integer convex optimization problems. We state the first complete characterization for the case when the number of possible integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Miles Lubin , Ilias Zadik , Juan Pablo Vielma

It is well known that a strictly convex minimand admits at most one minimizer. We prove a partial converse: Let $X$ be a locally convex Hausdorff space and $f \colon X \mapsto \left( - \infty , \infty \right]$ a function with compact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Thomas Ruf , Bernd Schmidt

We study the complexity of identifying the integer feasibility of reverse convex sets. We present various settings where the complexity can be either NP-Hard or efficiently solvable when the dimension is fixed. Of particular interest is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Robert Hildebrand , Adrian Göß

In this paper, we study a class of problems where the sum of truncated convex functions is minimized. In statistical applications, they are commonly encountered when $\ell_0$-penalized models are fitted and usually lead to NP-Hard…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-28 Tzu-Ying Liu , Hui Jiang

We show the existence of a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for the problem of maximizing a non-negative polynomial over mixed-integer sets in convex polytopes, when the number of variables is fixed. Moreover, using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Jesús A. De Loera , Raymond Hemmecke , Matthias Köppe , Robert Weismantel

We present results about minimization of convex functionals defined over a finite set of vectors in a finite dimensional Hilbert space, that extend several known results for the Benedetto-Fickus frame potential. Our approach depends on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-10-08 Pedro Massey , Mariano Ruiz

For given integers $n$ and $d$, both at least 2, we consider a homogeneous multivariate polynomial $f_d$ of degree $d$ in variables indexed by the edges of the complete graph on $n$ vertices and coefficients depending on cardinalities of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Sven Polak

We consider the problem of computing matrix polynomials $p(X)$, where $X$ is a large dense matrix, with as few matrix-matrix multiplications as possible. More precisely, let $\Pi_{2^{m}}^*$ represent the set of polynomials computable with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Elias Jarlebring , Gustaf Lorentzon

The optimization problem concerning the determination of the minimizer for the sum of convex functions holds significant importance in the realm of distributed and decentralized optimization. In scenarios where full knowledge of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Kananart Kuwaranancharoen , Shreyas Sundaram

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function over a subset of R^n that is not necessarily convex (minimization of a convex function over the integer points in a polytope is a special case). We define a family of duals for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Amitabh Basu , Michele Conforti , Gérard Cornuéjols , Robert Weismantel , Stefan Weltge

Polynomial meshes (called sometimes "norming sets") allow us to estimate the supremum norm of polynomials on a fixed compact set by the norm on its discrete subset. We give a general construction of polynomial weakly admissible meshes on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Leokadia Bialas-Ciez , Agnieszka Kowalska , Alvise Sommariva

Polyhedral convex set optimization problems are the simplest optimization problems with set-valued objective function. Their role in set optimization is comparable to the role of linear programs in scalar optimization. Vector linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Andreas Löhne

In this paper we study the functional given by the integral of the mean curvature of a convex set with Gaussian weight with Gaussian volume constraint. It was conjectured that the ball centered at the origin is the only minimizer of such a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Nicola Fusco , Domenico Angelo La Manna

The problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable convex function over an intersection of closed convex sets is ubiquitous in applied mathematics. It is particularly interesting when it is easy to project onto each separate set, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-06 Eric C. Chi , Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange

The aim of this paper is to present an original approach that takes advantage from the geometric features of strictly convex functions to tackle the problem of finding the minimum from another perspective. The general idea is that near the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-21 E. Conti

A convex-polynomial is a convex combination of the monomials $\{1, x, x^2, \ldots\}$. This paper establishes that the convex-polynomials on $\mathbb R$ are dense in $L^p(\mu)$ and weak$^*$ dense in $L^\infty(\mu)$, precisely when…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-02 Nathan S. Feldman , Paul J. McGuire

The problem of minimizing the difference of two lower semicontinuous, proper, convex functions (a DC function) on a nonempty closed convex set in a locally convex Hausdorff topological vector space is studied in this paper. The focus is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Vu Thi Huong , Duong Thi Kim Huyen , Nguyen Dong Yen