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In this paper, we study a class of fractional semi-infinite polynomial programming problems involving s.o.s-convex polynomial functions. For such a problem, by a conic reformulation proposed in our previous work and the quadratic modules…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Feng Guo , Meijun Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of computing by relaxation hierarchies the infimum of a real polynomial function f on a closed basic semialgebraic set and the points where this infimum is reached, if they exist. We show that when the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Marta Abril Bucero , Bernard Mourrain

Convex relaxation methods are powerful tools for studying the lowest energy of many-body problems. By relaxing the representability conditions for marginals to a set of local constraints, along with a global semidefinite constraint, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Yi Wang , Rizheng Huang , Yuehaw Khoo

In this paper, we propose some new semidefinite relaxations for a class of nonconvex complex quadratic programming problems, which widely appear in the areas of signal processing and power system. By deriving new valid constraints to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Yingzhe Xu , Cheng Lu , Zhibin Deng , Ya-Feng Liu

This paper proposes a real moment-HSOS hierarchy for complex polynomial optimization problems with real coefficients. We show that this hierarchy provides the same sequence of lower bounds as the complex analogue, yet is much cheaper to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jie Wang , Victor Magron

We provide a new degree bound on the weighted sum-of-squares (SOS) polynomials for Putinar-Vasilescu's Positivstellensatz. This leads to another Positivstellensatz saying that if $f$ is a polynomial of degree at most $2 d_f$ nonnegative on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai , Victor Magron

In this survey we consider polynomial optimization problems, asking to minimize a polynomial function over a compact semialgebraic set, defined by polynomial inequalities. This models a great variety of (in general, nonlinear nonconvex)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Monique Laurent , Lucas Slot

Polynomial optimization problems represent a wide class of optimization problems, with a large number of real-world applications. Current approaches for polynomial optimization, such as the sum of squares (SOS) method, rely on large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Dick den Hertog , Thodoris Koukouvinos

The Lasserre hierarchy of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations is an effective scheme for finding computationally feasible SDP approximations of polynomial optimization over compact semi-algebraic sets. In this paper, we show that,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-28 V. Jeyakumar , T. S. Pham , G. Li

Given an affine space of matrices $\mathcal{L}$ and a matrix $\Theta\in \mathcal{L}$, consider the problem of computing the closest rank deficient matrix to $\Theta$ on $\mathcal{L}$ with respect to the Frobenius norm. This is a nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Diego Cifuentes

We consider polynomial optimization problems on Cartesian products of basic compact semialgebraic sets. The solution of such problems can be approximated as closely as desired by hierarchies of semidefinite programming relaxations, based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Victor Magron

We introduce a new framework for unifying and systematizing the performance analysis of first-order black-box optimization algorithms for unconstrained convex minimization. The low-cost iteration complexity enjoyed by first-order algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Sandra S. Y. Tan , Antonios Varvitsiotis , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We first show that a continuous function f is nonnegative on a closed set $K\subseteq R^n$ if and only if (countably many) moment matrices of some signed measure $d\nu =fd\mu$ with support equal to K, are all positive semidefinite (if $K$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-13 Jean B. Lasserre

The problem of minimizing a polynomial over a set of polynomial inequalities is an NP-hard non-convex problem. Thanks to powerful results from real algebraic geometry, one can convert this problem into a nested sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Victor Magron , Jie Wang

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:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Daniel Stilck França , Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai

This paper studies the copositive optimization problem whose objective is a sparse polynomial, with linear constraints over the nonnegative orthant. We propose sparse Moment-SOS relaxations to solve it. Necessary and sufficient conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Suhan Zhong , Jinling Zhou , Jiawang Nie , Xindong Tang

This paper studies the sparse Moment-SOS hierarchy of relaxations for solving sparse polynomial optimization problems. We show that this sparse hierarchy is tight if and only if the objective can be written as a sum of sparse nonnegative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Jiawang Nie , Zheng Qu , Xindong Tang , Linghao Zhang

This paper introduces a Moment-Quaternion-Sum-of-Squares (QSOS) hierarchy for solving a class of quaternion polynomial optimization problems. This hierarchy is formulated directly in the quaternion domain and consists of a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Yanqing Liu , Jie Wang

This paper studies how to solve semi-infinite polynomial programming (SIPP) problems by semidefinite relaxation method. We first introduce two SDP relaxation methods for solving polynomial optimization problems with finitely many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Li Wang , Feng Guo

Lasserre's moment-SOS hierarchy consists of approximating instances of the generalized moment problem (GMP) with moment relaxations and sums-of-squares (SOS) strenghtenings that boil down to convex semidefinite programming (SDP) problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Matteo Tacchi