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A popular numerical method to compute SOS (sum of squares of polynomials) decompositions for polynomials is to transform the problem into semi-definite programming (SDP) problems and then solve them by SDP solvers. In this paper, we focus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Liyun Dai , Bican Xia

Sum of squares (SOS) optimization is a powerful technique for solving problems where the positivity of a polynomials must be enforced. The common approach to solve an SOS problem is by relaxation to a Semidefinite Program (SDP). The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Daniel Keren , Margarita Osadchy , Roi Poranne

It is well-known that any sum of squares (SOS) program can be cast as a semidefinite program (SDP) of a particular structure and that therein lies the computational bottleneck for SOS programs, as the SDPs generated by this procedure are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall , Antonis Papachristodoulou , James Saunderson , Yang Zheng

We consider the problem of finding exact sums of squares (SOS) decompositions for certain classes of non-negative multivariate polynomials, relying on semidefinite programming (SDP) solvers. We start by providing a hybrid numeric-symbolic…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Victor Magron , Mohab Safey El Din

In this article, we are interested in developing polynomial decomposition techniques based on sums-of-squares (SOS), namely the difference-of-sums-of-squares (D-SOS) and the difference-of-convex-sums-of-squares (DC-SOS). In particular, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Yi-Shuai Niu , Hoai An Le Thi , Dinh Tao Pham

This paper presents a novel algorithm for constructing a sum-of-squares (SOS) decomposition for positive semi-definite polynomials with rational coefficients. Unlike previous methods that typically yield SOS decompositions with…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zhenbing Zeng , Yong Huang , Lu Yang , Yongsheng Rao

This paper introduces a notion of decomposition and completion of sum-of-squares (SOS) matrices. We show that a subset of sparse SOS matrices with chordal sparsity patterns can be equivalently decomposed into a sum of multiple SOS matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Certifying nonnegativity of polynomials is a well-known NP-hard problem with direct applications spanning non-convex optimization, control, robotics, and beyond. A sufficient condition for nonnegativity is the Sum of Squares (SOS) property,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Nico Pelleriti , Christoph Spiegel , Shiwei Liu , David Martínez-Rubio , Max Zimmer , Sebastian Pokutta

We consider the problem of computing exact sums of squares (SOS) decompositions for certain classes of non-negative multivariate polynomials, relying on semidefinite programming (SDP) solvers. We provide a hybrid numeric-symbolic algorithm…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Victor Magron , Mohab Safey El Din

Global polynomial optimization is an important tool across applied mathematics, with many applications in operations research, engineering, and physical sciences. In various settings, the polynomials depend on external parameters that may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Richard L. Zhu , Mathias Oster , Yuehaw Khoo

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

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are standard convex problems that are frequently found in control and optimization applications. Interior-point methods can solve SDPs in polynomial time up to arbitrary accuracy, but scale poorly as the size of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Jared Miller , Yang Zheng , Mario Sznaier , Antonis Papachristodoulou

In recent years, optimization theory has been greatly impacted by the advent of sum of squares (SOS) optimization. The reliance of this technique on large-scale semidefinite programs however, has limited the scale of problems to which it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Anirudha Majumdar

We devise a scheme for solving an iterative sequence of linear programs (LPs) or second order cone programs (SOCPs) to approximate the optimal value of any semidefinite program (SDP) or sum of squares (SOS) program. The first LP and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall

Semidefinite and sum-of-squares (SOS) optimization are fundamental computational tools in many areas, including linear and nonlinear systems theory. However, the scale of problems that can be addressed reliably and efficiently is still…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Yang Zheng , Aivar Sootla , Antonis Papachristodoulou

We propose a novel methodology for solving a two-stage adjustable robust convex optimisation problem with a general (proximable) convex objective function and constraints defined by sum-of-squares (SOS) convex polynomials. These problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Neil D. Dizon , Bethany I. Caldwell , Vaithilingam Jeyakumar , Guoyin Li

A sum-of-squares is a polynomial that can be expressed as a sum of squares of other polynomials. Determining if a sum-of-squares decomposition exists for a given polynomial is equivalent to a linear matrix inequality feasibility problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-07 Peter Seiler , Qian Zheng , Gary Balas

We study the problem of decomposing a non-negative polynomial as an exact sum of squares (SOS) in the case where the associated semidefinite program is feasible but not strictly feasible (for example if the polynomial has real zeros).…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Santiago Laplagne

The Sum-of-Squares (SOS) approximation method is a technique used in optimization problems to derive lower bounds on the optimal value of an objective function. By representing the objective function as a sum of squares in a feature space,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Francis Bach , Elisabetta Cornacchia , Luca Pesce , Giovanni Piccioli

We provide a sparse version of the bounded degree SOS hierarchy BSOS [7] for polynomial optimization problems. It permits to treat large scale problems which satisfy a structured sparsity pattern. When the sparsity pattern satisfies the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Tillmann Weisser , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Kim-Chuan Toh
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