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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 and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Gereon Koßmann , René Schwonnek , Jonathan Steinberg

Quantum entanglement lies at the heart of quantum information science, yet its reliable detection in high-dimensional or noisy systems remains a fundamental computational challenge. Semidefinite programming (SDP) hierarchies, such as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Javier Pena , Vikesh Siddhu , Sridhar Tayur

Despite the numerous uses of semidefinite programming (SDP) and its universal solvability via interior point methods (IPMs), it is rarely applied to practical large-scale problems. This mainly owes to the computational cost of IPMs that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Yifan Ran , Stefan Vlaski , Wei Dai

Perfect Domination Problem (PDP), a canonical challenge in combinatorial optimization, finds critical applications in real-world systems such as error-correcting codes, wireless communication networks, and social networks. Decades of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Haoqian Pan , Changhong Lu , Yuqing Zheng , Chunxing Yan

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems (QUBOs) are intensively discussed in the realm of quantum computing and polynomial optimization. We provide a vast experimental study of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations of…

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a powerful framework from convex optimization that has striking potential for data science applications. This paper develops a provably correct randomized algorithm for solving large, weakly constrained SDP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Alp Yurtsever , Joel A. Tropp , Olivier Fercoq , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

A new approach to solving a class of rankconstrained semi-definite programming (SDP) problems, which appear in many signal processing applications such as transmit beamspace design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar, downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Matthew W. Morency , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

Certifying the safety or robustness of neural networks against input uncertainties and adversarial attacks is an emerging challenge in the area of safe machine learning and control. To provide such a guarantee, one must be able to bound the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Mahyar Fazlyab , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

Semidefinite relaxations are widely used to compute upper bounds on the objective of optimization problems involving noncommutative polynomials. Such optimization problems are prevalent in quantum information. We present an algorithm able…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Denis Rosset

This paper studies a fundamental problem in convex optimization, which is to solve semidefinite programming (SDP) with high accuracy. This paper follows from the existing robust SDP-based interior point method analysis due to [Huang, Jiang,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Baihe Huang , Shunhua Jiang , Zhao Song , Runzhou Tao , Ruizhe Zhang

Understanding and approximating extremal energy states of local Hamiltonians is a central problem in quantum physics and complexity theory. Recent work has focused on developing approximation algorithms for local Hamiltonians, and in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Jun Takahashi , Chaithanya Rayudu , Cunlu Zhou , Robbie King , Kevin Thompson , Ojas Parekh

In quantum thermodynamics, a system is described by a Hamiltonian and a list of non-commuting charges representing conserved quantities like particle number or electric charge, and an important goal is to determine the system's minimum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Nana Liu , Michele Minervini , Dhrumil Patel , Mark M. Wilde

We consider optimization problems with polynomial inequality constraints in non-commuting variables. These non-commuting variables are viewed as bounded operators on a Hilbert space whose dimension is not fixed and the associated polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-18 Stefano Pironio , Miguel Navascues , Antonio Acin

While current network intrusion detection systems achieve satisfactory accuracy, they often lack explainability. Subgroup Discovery (SD) addresses this by building interpretable rules that characterize feature interactions associated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Samuel Spell , Chi-Ren Shyu

Moment-based distributionally robust optimization (DRO) provides an optimization framework to integrate statistical information with traditional optimization approaches. Under this framework, one assumes that the underlying joint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Shiyi Jiang , Jianqiang Cheng , Kai Pan , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

We present a technique for reducing the computational requirements by several orders of magnitude in the evaluation of semidefinite relaxations for bounding the set of quantum correlations arising from finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Armin Tavakoli , Denis Rosset , Marc-Olivier Renou

Many problems of systems control theory boil down to solving polynomial equations, polynomial inequalities or polyomial differential equations. Recent advances in convex optimization and real algebraic geometry can be combined to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-13 Didier Henrion

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…

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We study the limits and capability of public-data assisted differentially private (PA-DP) algorithms. Specifically, we focus on the problem of stochastic convex optimization (SCO) with either labeled or unlabeled public data. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Enayat Ullah , Michael Menart , Raef Bassily , Cristóbal Guzmán , Raman Arora