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In this paper, we propose a new convergent conic programming hierarchy of relaxations involving both semi-definite cone and second-order cone constraints for solving nonconvex polynomial optimization problems to global optimality. The…
We study quantum algorithms for approximating Lasserre's hierarchy values for polynomial optimization. Let $f,g_1,\ldots,g_m$ be real polynomials in $n$ variables and $f^\star$ the infimum of $f$ over the semialgebraic set $S(g)=\{x:…
Comparison of Lasserre's measure--based bounds for polynomial optimization to bounds obtained by simulated annealing. We consider the problem of minimizing a continuous function $f$ over a compact set $\mathbf{K}$. We compare the hierarchy…
We consider the generalized moment problem (GMP) over the simplex and the sphere. This is a rich setting and it contains NP-hard problems as special cases, like constructing optimal cubature schemes and rational optimization. Using the…
In this paper, we propose a method for the approximation of the solution of high-dimensional weakly coercive problems formulated in tensor spaces using low-rank approximation formats. The method can be seen as a perturbation of a minimal…
In nonlinear elasticity, finding the deformation of a material which minimizes a given stored energy density is a challenging calculus of variations problem which may fail to have minimizers: the energy optimal material forms infinitely…
We introduce a method for proving Sum-of-Squares (SoS)/ Lasserre hierarchy lower bounds when the initial problem formulation exhibits a high degree of symmetry. Our main technical theorem allows us to reduce the study of the positive…
The completion of matrices with missing values under the rank constraint is a non-convex optimization problem. A popular convex relaxation is based on minimization of the nuclear norm (sum of singular values) of the matrix. For this…
We consider the densest submatrix problem, which seeks the submatrix of fixed size of a given binary matrix that contains the most nonzero entries. This problem is a natural generalization of fundamental problems in combinatorial…
We compute the second and third levels of the Lasserre hierarchy for the spherical finite distance problem. A connection is used between invariants in representations of the orthogonal group and representations of the general linear group,…
Semidefinite Optimization has become a standard technique in the landscape of Mathematical Programming that has many applications in finite dimensional Quantum Information Theory. This paper presents a way for finite-dimensional relaxations…
Optimization problems with rank constraints appear in many diverse fields such as control, machine learning and image analysis. Since the rank constraint is non-convex, these problems are often approximately solved via convex relaxations.…
We consider clustering problems where the goal is to determine an optimal partition of a given point set in Euclidean space in terms of a collection of affine subspaces. While there is vast literature on heuristics for this kind of problem,…
There has been much recent interest in hierarchies of progressively stronger convexifications of polynomial optimisation problems (POP). These often converge to the global optimum of the POP, asymptotically, but prove challenging to solve…
We introduce two min-max problems: the first problem is to minimize the supremum of finitely many rational functions over a compact basic semi-algebraic set whereas the second problem is a 2-player zero-sum polynomial game in randomized…
Low-rank matrix completion consists of computing a matrix of minimal complexity that recovers a given set of observations as accurately as possible. Unfortunately, existing methods for matrix completion are heuristics that, while highly…