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We show how to bound the accuracy of a family of semi-definite programming relaxations for the problem of polynomial optimization on the hypersphere. Our method is inspired by a set of results from quantum information known as quantum de…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-25 Andrew C. Doherty , Stephanie Wehner

Converging hierarchies of finite-dimensional semi-definite relaxations have been proposed for state-constrained optimal control problems featuring oscillation phe-nomena, by relaxing controls as Young measures. These semi-definite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-20 Mathieu Claeys , Didier Henrion , Martin Kružík

We study the conditions under which the convex relaxation of a mixed-integer linear programming formulation for ordered optimization problems, where sorting is part of the decision process, yields integral optimal solutions. Thereby solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Víctor Blanco , Diego Laborda , Miguel Martínez-Antón

This paper studies bilevel polynomial optimization problems. To solve them, we give a method based on polynomial optimization relaxations. Each relaxation is obtained from the Kurash-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions for the lower level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Jiawang Nie , Li Wang , Jane Ye , Suhan Zhong

We study the problem of optimal subset selection from a set of correlated random variables. In particular, we consider the associated combinatorial optimization problem of maximizing the determinant of a symmetric positive definite matrix…

Computation · Statistics 2019-07-12 Yu Wang , Nhu D. Le , James V. Zidek

This paper considers polynomial optimization with unbounded sets. We give a homogenization formulation and propose a hierarchy of Moment-SOS relaxations to solve it. Under the assumptions that the feasible set is closed at infinity and the…

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

This paper studies generalized semi-infinite programs (GSIPs) given by polynomials. We propose a hierarchy of polynomial optimization relaxations to solve them. They are based on Lagrange multiplier expressions and polynomial extensions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Xiaomeng Hu , Jiawang Nie

We present a new algorithm for solving a polynomial program P based on the recent "joint + marginal" approach of the first author for, parametric optimization. The idea is to first consider the variable x1 as a parameter and solve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Jean B. Lasserre , Thanh Tung Phan

We study the problem of maximizing the geometric mean of $d$ low-degree non-negative forms on the real or complex sphere in $n$ variables. We show that this highly non-convex problem is NP-hard even when the forms are quadratic and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Chenyang Yuan , Pablo A. Parrilo

Let $K_f$ be a closed semi-algebraic set in $\dR^d$ such that there exist bounded real polynomials $h_1,{...},h_n$ on $K_f$. It is proved that the moment problem for $K_f$ is solvable provided it is for all sets $K_f\cap C_\lambda$, where…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Konrad Schmuedgen

Convex relaxations of non-convex optimal power flow (OPF) problems have recently attracted significant interest. While existing relaxations globally solve many OPF problems, there are practical problems for which existing relaxations fail…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Daniel K. Molzahn , Ian A. Hiskens

In the maximum independent set of convex polygons problem, we are given a set of $n$ convex polygons in the plane with the objective of selecting a maximum cardinality subset of non-overlapping polygons. Here we study a special case of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Fabrizio Grandoni , Edin Husić , Mathieu Mari , Antoine Tinguely

In this paper, we study the polynomial optimization problem of multi-forms over the intersection of the multi-spheres and the nonnegative orthants. This class of problems is NP-hard in general, and includes the problem of finding the best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Shenglong Hu , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

We use moment-SOS (Sum Of Squares) relaxations to address the optimal control problem of the 1D heat equation perturbed with a nonlinear term. We extend the current framework of moment-based optimal control of PDEs to consider a quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Charlie Lebarbé , Emilien Flayac , Michel Fournié , Didier Henrion , Milan Korda

Optimal power flow (OPF) is one of the key electric power system optimization problems. "Moment" relaxations from the Lasserre hierarchy for polynomial optimization globally solve many OPF problems. Previous work illustrates the ability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Daniel K. Molzahn , Cedric Josz , Ian A. Hiskens

We consider the problem of minimal correction of the training set to make it consistent with monotonic constraints. This problem arises during analysis of data sets via techniques that require monotone data. We show that this problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Rustem Takhanov

This paper introduces a Moment-Quaternion-Sum-of-Squares (QSOS) hierarchy for solving a class of quaternion polynomial optimization problems. This hierarchy is formulated directly in the quaternion domain and consists of a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Yanqing Liu , Jie Wang

We describe a factor-revealing convex optimization problem for the integrality gap of the maximum-cut semidefinite programming relaxation: for each $n \geq 2$ we present a convex optimization problem whose optimal value is the largest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

Globally optimizing a nonconvex quadratic over the intersection of $m$ balls in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is known to be polynomial-time solvable for fixed $m$. Moreover, when $m=1$, the standard semidefinite relaxation is exact. When $m=2$, it has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Samuel Burer

In this work, we address the exact D-optimal experimental design problem by proposing an efficient algorithm that rapidly identifies the support of its continuous relaxation. Our method leverages a column generation framework to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Selin Ahipasaoglu , Stefano Cipolla , Jacek Gondzio