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We consider the NP-hard problem of minimizing a separable concave quadratic function over the integral points in a polyhedron, and we denote by D the largest absolute value of the subdeterminants of the constraint matrix. In this paper we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Alberto Del Pia

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) finds approximate solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. Its performance monotonically improves with its depth $p$. We apply the QAOA to MaxCut on large-girth $D$-regular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Joao Basso , Edward Farhi , Kunal Marwaha , Benjamin Villalonga , Leo Zhou

We study optimization problems that are neither approximable in polynomial time (at least with a constant factor) nor fixed parameter tractable, under widely believed complexity assumptions. Specifically, we focus on Maximum Independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-29 Marek Cygan , Lukasz Kowalik , Marcin Pilipczuk , Mateusz Wykurz

Given a matrix $A$, the goal of the entrywise low-rank approximation problem is to find $\operatorname{argmin} \|A-B\|_p$ over all rank-$k$ matrices $B$, where $\| \cdot \|_p$ is the entrywise $\ell_p$ norm. When $p = 2$ this well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Prashanti Anderson , Ainesh Bakshi , Samuel B. Hopkins

In this paper we study the relationship between the optimal value of a homogeneous quadratic optimization problem and that of its Semidefinite Programming (SDP) relaxation. We consider two quadratic optimization models: (1) $\min \{x^* C x…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Simai He , Zhi-Quan Luo , Jiawang Nie , Shuzhong Zhang

This thesis explores algorithmic applications and limitations of convex relaxation hierarchies for approximating some discrete and continuous optimization problems. - We show a dichotomy of approximability of constraint satisfaction…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Mrinalkanti Ghosh

An algorithm for unconstrained non-convex optimization is described, which does not evaluate the objective function and in which minimization is carried out, at each iteration, within a randomly selected subspace. It is shown that this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 S. Bellavia , S. Gratton , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

In this paper, we give a quadratic Goldreich-Levin algorithm that is close to optimal in the following ways. Given a bounded function $f$ on the Boolean hypercube $\mathbb{F}_2^n$ and any $\varepsilon>0$, the algorithm returns a quadratic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jop Briët , Davi Castro-Silva

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a promising quantum heuristic with empirical evidence of speedup over classical state-of-the-art for some problems. QAOA uses a parameterized circuit with $p$ layers, where higher $p$…

We consider semidefinite programs (SDPs) of size n with equality constraints. In order to overcome scalability issues, Burer and Monteiro proposed a factorized approach based on optimizing over a matrix Y of size $n$ by $k$ such that $X =…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-29 Thomas Pumir , Samy Jelassi , Nicolas Boumal

This manuscript develops a new framework to analyze and design iterative optimization algorithms built on the notion of Integral Quadratic Constraints (IQC) from robust control theory. IQCs provide sufficient conditions for the stability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Laurent Lessard , Benjamin Recht , Andrew Packard

Proximity gaps and correlated agreement have become central tools in the analysis of interactive oracle proofs of proximity (IOPPs) and code-based SNARKs. Informally, a proximity-gap statement says that for a structured set of words -- such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Chen Yuan , Ruiqi Zhu

This paper examines the nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems using an iterative method. One of the existing approaches for solving nonconvex QCQP problems relaxes the rank one constraint on the unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Chuangchuang Sun , Ran Dai

Asadpour, Feige, and Saberi proved that the integrality gap of the configuration LP for the restricted max-min allocation problem is at most $4$. However, their proof does not give a polynomial-time approximation algorithm. A lot of efforts…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Siu-Wing Cheng , Yuchen Mao

In this paper, we propose a branch-and-bound algorithm for solving nonconvex quadratic programming problems with box constraints (BoxQP). Our approach combines existing tools, such as semidefinite programming (SDP) bounds strengthened…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Marco Locatelli , Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a quantum algorithm designed for Combinatorial Optimization Problem (COP). We show that if a local algorithm is limited in performance at logarithmic depth for a spin glass type COP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Mark Goh

Semi-Infinite Programming (SIP) has emerged as a powerful framework for modeling problems with infinite constraints, however, its theoretical development in the context of nonconvex and large-scale optimization remains limited. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Cody Melcher , Zeinab Alizadeh , Lindsey Hiett , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

We study quantum interior point methods (QIPMs) for second-order cone programming (SOCP), guided by the example use case of portfolio optimization (PO). We provide a complete quantum circuit-level description of the algorithm from problem…

The framework of Integral Quadratic Constraints (IQC) reduces the computation of upper bounds on the convergence rate of several optimization algorithms to a semi-definite program (SDP). In the case of over-relaxed Alternating Direction…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Guilherme França , José Bento

We present an approximation scheme for optimizing certain Quadratic Integer Programming problems with positive semidefinite objective functions and global linear constraints. This framework includes well known graph problems such as Minimum…

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