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We present experimental work on a primal-dual framework simultaneously approximating maximum cut and weighted fractional cut-covering instances. In this primal-dual framework, we solve a semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation to either…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Nathan Benedetto Proença , Marcel K. de Carli Silva , Cristiane M. Sato , Levent Tunçel

The ground state energy of a many-electron system can be approximated by an variational approach in which the total energy of the system is minimized with respect to one and two-body reduced density matrices (RDM) instead of many-electron…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Chao Yang , Yaxiang Yuan

The semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation has proven to be extremely strong for many hard discrete optimization problems. This is in particular true for the quadratic assignment problem (QAP), arguably one of the hardest NP-hard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-18 Danilo Elias Oliveira , Henry Wolkowicz , Yangyang Xu

We propose a new solver for the sparse spikes deconvolution problem over the space of Radon measures. A common approach to off-the-grid deconvolution considers semidefinite (SDP) relaxations of the total variation (the total mass of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Paul Catala , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré

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

This work considers the problem of super-resolution. The goal is to resolve a Dirac distribution from knowledge of its discrete, low-pass, Fourier measurements. Classically, such problems have been dealt with parameter estimation methods.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Ayush Bhandari , Yonina Eldar , Ramesh Raskar

A semidefinite program (SDP) is a particular kind of convex optimization problem with applications in operations research, combinatorial optimization, quantum information science, and beyond. In this work, we propose variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Dhrumil Patel , Patrick J. Coles , Mark M. Wilde

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

Super-resolution is a fundamental task in imaging, where the goal is to extract fine-grained structure from coarse-grained measurements. Here we are interested in a popular mathematical abstraction of this problem that has been widely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Ankur Moitra

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are a fundamental class of optimization problems with important recent applications in approximation algorithms, quantum complexity, robust learning, algorithmic rounding, and adversarial deep learning. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Haotian Jiang , Tarun Kathuria , Yin Tat Lee , Swati Padmanabhan , Zhao Song

We propose a manifold optimization approach to solve linear semidefinite programs (SDP) with low-rank solutions, with an emphasis on SDP relaxations for polynomial optimization problems. This approach incorporates the inexact augmented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Jie Wang , Liangbing Hu

We study robust convex quadratic programs where the uncertain problem parameters can contain both continuous and integer components. Under the natural boundedness assumption on the uncertainty set, we show that the generic problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Areesh Mittal , Can Gokalp , Grani A. Hanasusanto

Semidefinite programming (SDP) provides a principled framework for convex relaxations of nonconvex geometric constraints in motion planning, yet existing solvers are too computationally expensive for real-time control, particularly on…

We consider semidefinite programming (SDP) approaches for solving the maximum satisfiability problem (MAX-SAT) and the weighted partial MAX-SAT. It is widely known that SDP is well-suited to approximate the (MAX-)2-SAT. Our work shows the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Lennart Sinjorgo , Renata Sotirov

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 suppose the existence of an oracle which solves any semidefinite programming (SDP) problem satisfying Slater's condition simultaneously at its primal and dual sides. We note that such an oracle might not be able to directly solve general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Bruno F. Lourenço , Masakazu Muramatsu , Takashi Tsuchiya

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

Sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) is continuing an active research field nowadays for high dimensional data. It aims to estimate the central subspace (CS) without making distributional assumption. To overcome the large-$p$-small-$n$…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-22 Hung Hung , Su-Yun Huang

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a fundamental class of convex optimization problems with diverse applications in mathematics, engineering, machine learning, and related disciplines. This paper investigates the application of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Zilong Cui , Ran Gu

Semidefinite programming is an indispensable tool in computer vision, but general-purpose solvers for semidefinite programs are often too slow and memory intensive for large-scale problems. We propose a general framework to approximately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Sohil Shah , Abhay Kumar , Carlos Castillo , David Jacobs , Christoph Studer , Tom Goldstein