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In recent years, semidefinite relaxations of common optimization problems in robotics have attracted growing attention due to their ability to provide globally optimal solutions. In many cases, it was shown that specific handcrafted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Frederike Dümbgen , Connor Holmes , Ben Agro , Timothy D. Barfoot

This paper studies how to certify the convergence of Lasserre's hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations for solving multivariate polynomial optimization. We propose flat truncation as a general certificate for this purpose. Assume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-08 Jiawang Nie

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

We develop a Lagrange multiplier theory for nonconvex set-valued optimization problems under Lipschitz-type regularity conditions. Instead of classical continuous linear functionals, we introduce closed convex processes -- set-valued…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Fernando García-Castaño , Miguel Ángel Melguizo-Padial

We introduce a new class of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for sparse box-constrained quadratic programs, obtained by a novel integration of the Reformulation Linearization Technique into standard SDP relaxations while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Aida Khajavirad

We address combinatorial problems that can be formulated as minimization of a partially separable function of discrete variables (energy minimization in graphical models, weighted constraint satisfaction, pseudo-Boolean optimization, 0-1…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Alexander Shekhovtsov

Topology optimization of frame structures under free-vibration eigenvalue constraints constitutes a challenging nonconvex polynomial optimization problem with disconnected feasible sets. In this article, we first formulate it as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Marek Tyburec , Michal Kočvara , Marouan Handa , Jan Zeman

In this paper, we describe a new method to compute the minimum of a real polynomial function and the ideal defining the points which minimize this polynomial function, assuming that the minimizer ideal is zero-dimensional. Our method is a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-22 Marta Abril Bucero , Bernard Mourrain , Philippe Trebuchet

We propose general notions to deal with large scale polynomial optimization problems and demonstrate their efficiency on a key industrial problem of the twenty first century, namely the optimal power flow problem. These notions enable us to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Cedric Josz , Daniel K. Molzahn

The continuous-time analysis of existing iterative algorithms for optimization has a long history. This work proposes a novel continuous-time control-theoretic framework for equality-constrained optimization. The key idea is to design a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 V. Cerone , S. M. Fosson , S. Pirrera , D. Regruto

We study T-semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation for constrained polynomial optimization problems (POPs). T-SDP relaxation for unconstrained POPs was introduced by Zheng, Huang and Hu in 2022. In this work, we propose a T-SDP relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Hiroki Marumo , Sunyoung Kim , Makoto Yamashita

This thesis settles a number of questions related to computational complexity and algebraic, semidefinite programming based relaxations in optimization and control.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-16 Amir Ali Ahmadi

This article focuses on optimization of polynomials in noncommuting variables, while taking into account sparsity in the input data. A converging hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations for eigenvalue and trace optimization is provided. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Igor Klep , Victor Magron , Janez Povh

This paper generalizes a previously-conceived, continuation-based optimization technique for scalar objective functions on constraint manifolds to cases of periodic and quasiperiodic solutions of delay-differential equations. A Lagrange…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Zaid Ahsan , Harry Dankowicz , Jan Sieber

In this paper, we address the effective degree bound problem for Lasserre's hierarchy of moment-sum-of-squares (SOS) relaxations in polynomial optimization involving $n$ variables. We assume that the first $n$ equality constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Zheng Hua , Zheng Qu

The aim of this paper is to solve linear semidefinite programs arising from higher-order Lasserre relaxations of unconstrained binary quadratic optimization problems. For this we use an interior point method with a preconditioned conjugate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Soodeh Habibi , Michal Kocvara , Michael Stingl

In this paper, we examine linear programming (LP) relaxations based on Bernstein polynomials for polynomial optimization problems (POPs). We present a progression of increasingly more precise LP relaxations based on expressing the given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-04 Mohamed Amin Ben Sassi , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

This paper focuses on the study of a mathematical program with equilibrium constraints, where the objective and the constraint functions are all polynomials. We present a method for finding its global minimizers and global minimum using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Liguo Jiao , Jae Hyoung Lee , Tien-Son Pham

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

We provide a correction to the sufficient conditions under which closed-form expressions for the optimal Lagrange multiplier are provided in arXiv:2112.13138 [math.OC]. We first present a simple counterexample where the original conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Henri Lefebvre , Anirudh Subramanyam