English
Related papers

Related papers: Optimal data fitting: a moment approach

200 papers

We consider T-optimal experiment design problems for discriminating multi-factor polynomial regression models where the design space is defined by polynomial inequalities and the regression parameters are constrained to given convex sets.…

Computation · Statistics 2020-02-04 Yuguang Yue , Lieven Vandenberghe , Weng Kee Wong

In this paper we obtain an algorithm towards solving the two-dimensional moment problem. This algorithm gives the necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the moment problem. It is shown that all solutions of the moment…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-27 Sergey M. Zagorodnyuk

This paper studies the matrix Moment-SOS hierarchy for solving polynomial matrix optimization. Our first result is to show the finite convergence of this hierarchy, if the nondegeneracy condition, strict complementarity condition and second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Lei Huang , Jiawang Nie

Building on the blueprint from Goemans and Williamson (1995) for the Max-Cut problem, we construct a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for orthogonally constrained quadratic optimization problems. First, we derive a semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

This paper introduces a discrete relaxation for the class of combinatorial optimization problems which can be described by a set partitioning formulation under packing constraints. We present two combinatorial relaxations based on computing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Phillippe Samer , Evellyn Cavalcante , Sebastián Urrutia , Johan Oppen

In this paper we study the relationship between the optimal value of a homogeneous quadratic optimization problem and that of its Semidefinite Programming (SDP) relaxation. We consider two quadratic optimization models: (1) $\min \{x^* C x…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Simai He , Zhi-Quan Luo , Jiawang Nie , Shuzhong Zhang

The Degree Realization problem requires, given a sequence $d$ of $n$ positive integers, to decide whether there exists a graph whose degrees correspond to $d$, and to construct such a graph if it exists. A more challenging variant of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Amotz Bar-Noy , Igor Kalinichev , David Peleg , Dror Rawitz

In this paper, we address the problem of reconstruction of support of a measure from its moments. More precisely, given a finite subset of the moments of a measure, we develop a semidefinite program for approximating the support of measure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Ashkan Jasour , Constantino Lagoa

Correspondence problems are often modelled as quadratic optimization problems over permutations. Common scalable methods for approximating solutions of these NP-hard problems are the spectral relaxation for non-convex energies and the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Nadav Dym , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

In this paper we obtain an algorithm towards solving the two-dimensional moment problem. This algorithm gives the necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the moment problem. It is shown that all solutions of the moment…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-01 Sergey M. Zagorodnyuk

This paper is concerned with polynomial optimization problems. We show how to exploit term (or monomial) sparsity of the input polynomials to obtain a new converging hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations. The novelty (and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

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 prove a general result demonstrating the power of Lagrangian relaxation in solving constrained maximization problems with arbitrary objective functions. This yields a unified approach for solving a wide class of {\em subset selection}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai , Gal Tamir

We consider integer-restricted optimal control of systems governed by abstract semilinear evolution equations. This includes the problem of optimal control design for certain distributed parameter systems endowed with multiple actuators,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Falk M. Hante , Sebastian Sager

We establish new convergence rates for the Moment-Sum-of-Squares (Moment-SoS) relaxations for the Generalized Moment Problem (GMP) with countable moment constraints on vectors of measures, under dual optimum attainment, $S$-fullness and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Lucas Gamertsfelder , Bernard Mourrain

We introduce a new approach aiming at computing approximate optimal designs for multivariate polynomial regressions on compact (semi-algebraic) design spaces. We use the moment-sum-of-squares hierarchy of semidefinite programming problems…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Yohann De Castro , Fabrice Gamboa , Didier Henrion , Roxana Hess , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

We consider the linear conic optimization problem with the cone of nonnegative polynomials. Its dual optimization problem is the generalized moment problem. Moment-SOS relaxations are powerful for solving them. This paper studies finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Lei Huang , Jiawang Nie , Ya-Xiang Yuan

We study continuous quadratic submodular minimization with bounds and propose a polynomially sized semidefinite relaxation, which is provably tight for dimension $n \le 3$ and empirically tight for larger $n$. We apply the relaxation to two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Samuel Burer , Karthik Natarajan

This work presents a hybrid approach to solve the maximum stable set problem, using constraint and semidefinite programming. The approach consists of two steps: subproblem generation and subproblem solution. First we rank the variable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. J. van Hoeve

We introduce a minor variant of the approximate D-optimal design of experiments with a more general information matrix that takes into account the representation of the design space S. The main motivation (and result) is that if S in R^d is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Didier Henrion , Jean Bernard Lasserre