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A quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP) is an optimization problem in which the objective function is a quadratic function and the feasible region is defined by quadratic constraints. Solving non-convex QCQP to global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Asteroide Santana , Santanu S. Dey

We develop a novel primal heuristic for nonconvex Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs (MIQCQPs). The method is built around a convex approximation that is dynamically adjusted within a feasibility-pump-style…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Yongzheng Dai , Chen Chen

Nonlinear programming is explicitly analyzed via a novel perspective/method and from a bottom-up manner. The philosophy is based on the recent findings on convex quadratic equation (CQE), which help clarify a geometric interpretation that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Li-Gang Lin , Yew-Wen Liang

In this work, based on the ideas of alternating direction method with multipliers (ADMM) and sequential quadratic programming (SQP), as well as Armijo line search technology, monotone splitting SQP algorithms for two-block nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Jinbao Jian , Guodong Ma , Xiao Xu , Daolan Han

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

The uniform quadratic optimizatin problem (UQ) is a nonconvex quadratic constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) sharing the same Hessian matrix. Based on the second-order cone programming (SOCP) relaxation, we establish a new sufficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Shu Wang , Yong Xia

Starting from a classic financial optimization problem, we first propose a cutting plane algorithm for this problem. Then we use spectral decomposition to tranform the problem into an equivalent D.C. programming problem, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Huang Yin

We consider the global optimization of nonconvex mixed-integer quadratic programs with linear equality constraints. In particular, we present a new class of convex quadratic relaxations which are derived via quadratic cuts. To construct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Carlos J. Nohra , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis

Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs arise in a variety of applications, particularly in energy, water, and gas systems, where discrete decisions interact with nonconvex quadratic constraints. These problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Ignacio Gómez-Casares , Pietro Belotti , Bissan Ghaddar , Julio González-Díaz

We consider optimization problems containing nonconvex quadratic functions for which semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations often yield strong bounds. We investigate linear inequalities that outer approximate the positive semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Oktay Günlük , Paul Jünger , Jeff Linderoth , Andrea Lodi , James Luedtke

This paper extends the SQP-approach of the well-known bundle-Newton method for nonsmooth unconstrained minimization to the nonlinearly constrained case. Instead of using a penalty function or a filter or an improvement function to deal with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Hannes Fendl , Hermann Schichl

Bilevel optimization involves a hierarchical structure where one problem is nested within another, leading to complex interdependencies between levels. We propose a single-loop, tuning-free algorithm that guarantees anytime feasibility,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Sina Sharifi , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Mahyar Fazlyab

This paper explores a new class of constrained difference programming problems, where the objective and constraints are formulated as differences of functions, without requiring their convexity. To investigate such problems, novel variants…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Yixia Song , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

We propose a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method that can incorporate adaptive sampling for stochastic nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems with upper-C^2 objectives. Upper-$\Ctwo$ functions can be viewed as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-17 J. Wang , I. Aravena , C. G. Petra

Outer approximation methods have long been employed to tackle a variety of optimization problems, including linear programming, in the 1960s, and continue to be effective for solving variational inequalities, general convex problems, as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Ewa M. Bednarczuk , Giovanni Bruccola , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Krzysztof Rutkowski

We consider the global optimization of nonconvex quadratic programs and mixed-integer quadratic programs. We present a family of convex quadratic relaxations which are derived by convexifying nonconvex quadratic functions through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Carlos J. Nohra , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis

Recent advances in the efficiency and robustness of algorithms solving convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems motivate developing techniques for creating convex quadratic relaxations that, although more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 William R. Strahl , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

Non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems have numerous applications in signal processing, machine learning, and wireless communications, albeit the general QCQP is NP-hard, and several interesting special…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Kejun Huang , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

The quadratic programming over one inequality quadratic constraint (QP1QC) is a very special case of quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) and attracted much attention since early 1990's. It is now understood that, under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Yong Hsia , Gang-Xuan Lin , Ruey-Lin Sheu

In a wide range of applications, we are required to rapidly solve a sequence of convex multiparametric quadratic programs (mp-QPs) on resource-limited hardwares. This is a nontrivial task and has been an active topic for decades in control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Zhinan Hou , Keyou You