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We approximate the backward reachable set of discrete-time autonomous polynomial systems using the recently developed occupation measure approach. We formulate the problem as an infinite-dimensional linear programming (LP) problem on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Weiqiao Han , Russ Tedrake

The Max-Cut problem is a fundamental NP-hard problem, which is attracting attention in the field of quantum computation these days. Regarding the approximation algorithm of the Max-Cut problem, algorithms based on semidefinite programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Eiichiro Sato

This paper deals with the algorithmic aspects of solving feasibility problems of semidefinite programming (SDP), aka linear matrix inequalities (LMI). Since in some SDP instances all feasible solutions have irrational entries, numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Vladimir Kolmogorov , Simone Naldi , Jeferson Zapata

Many problems in machine learning can be solved by rounding the solution of an appropriate linear program (LP). This paper shows that we can recover solutions of comparable quality by rounding an approximate LP solution instead of the ex-…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Srikrishna Sridhar , Victor Bittorf , Ji Liu , Ce Zhang , Christopher Ré , Stephen J. Wright

We give the first approximation algorithm for mixed packing and covering semidefinite programs (SDPs) with polylogarithmic dependence on width. Mixed packing and covering SDPs constitute a fundamental algorithmic primitive with recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Arun Jambulapati , Yin Tat Lee , Jerry Li , Swati Padmanabhan , Kevin Tian

We study the Max-Cut semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation in the regime where a near-optimal solution admits a low-dimensional realization. While the Goemans--Williamson hyperplane rounding achieves the worst-case optimal approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hsien-Chih Chang , Suprovat Ghoshal , Euiwoong Lee

We consider the NP-hard problem of minimizing a convex quadratic function over the integer lattice ${\bf Z}^n$. We present a simple semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation for obtaining a nontrivial lower bound on the optimal value of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Jaehyun Park , Stephen Boyd

We investigate exact semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for the problem of minimizing a nonconvex quadratic objective function over a feasible region defined by both finitely and infinitely many nonconvex quadratic inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Naohiko Arima , Sunyoung Kim , Masakazu Kojima

We prove super-polynomial lower bounds on the size of linear programming relaxations for approximation versions of constraint satisfaction problems. We show that for these problems, polynomial-sized linear programs are exactly as powerful…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Siu On Chan , James R. Lee , Prasad Raghavendra , David Steurer

While semidefinite programming (SDP) problems are polynomially solvable in theory, it is often difficult to solve large SDP instances in practice. One technique to address this issue is to relax the global positive-semidefiniteness (PSD)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Grigoriy Blekherman , Santanu S. Dey , Marco Molinaro , Shengding Sun

We consider the problem of approximating a two-dimensional shape contour (or curve segment) using discrete assembly systems, which allow to build geometric structures based on limited sets of node and edge types subject to edge length and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Andreas M. Tillmann , Leif Kobbelt

We give an approximation algorithm for Quantum Max-Cut which works by rounding an SDP relaxation to an entangled quantum state. The SDP is used to choose the parameters of a variational quantum circuit. The entangled state is then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Robbie King

We introduce the {\it Bipartite Multi-cut} problem. This is a generalization of the {\it st-Min-cut} problem, is similar to the {\it Multi-cut} problem (except for more stringent requirements) and also turns out to be an immediate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sreyash Kenkre , Sundar Vishwanathan

We give new rounding schemes for SDP relaxations for the problems of maximizing cubic polynomials over the unit sphere and the $n$-dimensional hypercube. In both cases, the resulting algorithms yield a $O(\sqrt{n/k})$ multiplicative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari , Lucas Pesenti , Luca Trevisan

It is well-known that by adding integrality constraints to the semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the max-cut problem, the resulting integer semidefinite program is an exact formulation of the problem. In this paper we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Frank de Meijer , Renata Sotirov

In the simultaneous Max-Cut problem, we are given $k$ weighted graphs on the same set of $n$ vertices, and the goal is to find a cut of the vertex set so that the minimum, over the $k$ graphs, of the cut value is as large as possible.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Amey Bhangale , Subhash Khot , Swastik Kopparty , Sushant Sachdeva , Devanathan Thiruvenkatachari

This paper develops a new storage-optimal algorithm that provably solves generic semidefinite programs (SDPs) in standard form. This method is particularly effective for weakly constrained SDPs. The key idea is to formulate an approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Lijun Ding , Alp Yurtsever , Volkan Cevher , Joel A. Tropp , Madeleine Udell

The real radical ideal of a system of polynomials with finitely many complex roots is generated by a system of real polynomials having only real roots and free of multiplicities. It is a central object in computational real algebraic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Greg Reid , Fei Wang , Henry Wolkowicz , Wenyuan Wu

We present a performant and rigorous algorithm for certifying that a matrix is close to being a projection onto an irreducible subspace of a given group representation. This addresses a problem arising when one seeks solutions to…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Felipe Montealegre-Mora , Denis Rosset , Jean-Daniel Bancal , David Gross

In many submodular optimization applications, datasets are naturally partitioned into disjoint subsets. These scenarios give rise to submodular optimization problems with partition-based constraints, where the desired solution set should be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wenjing Chen , Yixin Chen , Victoria G. Crawford