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Among many approaches to increase the computational efficiency of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation for quadratic constrained quadratic programming problems (QCQPs), exploiting the aggregate sparsity of the data matrices in the SDP…

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We study the problem of efficient compression of a stochastic source of probability distributions. It can be viewed as a generalization of Shannon's source coding problem. It has relation to the theory of common randomness, as well as to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Andreas Winter

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) has received much attention in the literature in the past decade. In this context, Sparse Polynomial chaos expansions (PCE) have been shown to be among the most promising methods because of their ability to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-17 N. Fajraoui , S. Marelli , B. Sudret

We study online statistical inference for the solutions of stochastic optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints. Such problems are prevalent in statistics and machine learning, encompassing constrained $M$-estimation,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Yihang Gao , Michael K. Ng , Michael W. Mahoney , Sen Na

We consider the sparse optimization problem with nonlinear constraints and an objective function, which is given by the sum of a general smooth mapping and an additional term defined by the $ \ell_0 $-quasi-norm. This term is used to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Christian Kanzow , Alexandra Schwarz , Felix Weiß

Sparse principal component analysis with global support (SPCAgs), is the problem of finding the top-$r$ leading principal components such that all these principal components are linear combinations of a common subset of at most $k$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Santanu S. Dey , Marco Molinaro , Guanyi Wang

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

Quadratic Programming (QP) is the well-studied problem of maximizing over {-1,1} values the quadratic form \sum_{i \ne j} a_{ij} x_i x_j. QP captures many known combinatorial optimization problems, and assuming the unique games conjecture,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Rajsekar Manokaran , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

The stable principal component pursuit (SPCP) problem is a non-smooth convex optimization problem, the solution of which has been shown both in theory and in practice to enable one to recover the low rank and sparse components of a matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Donald Goldfarb , Garud Iyengar

Superquantiles have recently gained significant interest as a risk-aware metric for addressing fairness and distribution shifts in statistical learning and decision making problems. This paper introduces a fast, scalable and robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Jake Roth , Ying Cui

A key challenge in classical machine learning is to mitigate overparameterization by selecting sparse solutions. We translate this concept to the quantum domain, introducing quantum sparsity as a principle based on minimizing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Tomohiro Hashizume , Zhengjun Wang , Frank Schlawin , Dieter Jaksch

We consider a class of $\ell_0$-regularized linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems. This class of problems is obtained by augmenting a penalizing sparsity measure to the cost objective of the standard linear-quadratic regulator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-31 MirSaleh Bahavarnia

We propose a novel stochastic approximation algorithm, termed PMQSopt, for solving weakly convex stochastic optimization problems involving expectation-valued functions. The algorithm is constructed by integrating the proximal method of…

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Stochastic sequential quadratic optimization (SQP) methods for solving continuous optimization problems with nonlinear equality constraints have attracted attention recently, such as for solving large-scale data-fitting problems subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Frank E. Curtis , Xin Jiang , Qi Wang

We extend rank-constrained optimization to general hyperbolic programs (HP) using the notion of matroid rank. For LP and SDP respectively, this reduces to sparsity-constrained LP and rank-constrained SDP that are already well-studied. But…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Zhen Dai , Lek-Heng Lim

We develop and analyze stochastic optimization algorithms for problems in which the expected loss is strongly convex, and the optimum is (approximately) sparse. Previous approaches are able to exploit only one of these two structures,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-19 Alekh Agarwal , Sahand Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

We consider the problem of approximating nonconvex quadratic optimization with ellipsoid constraints (ECQP). We show some SDP-based approximation bounds for special cases of (ECQP) can be improved by trivially applying the extened Pataki's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Yong Xia , Shu Wang , Zi Xu

In this paper, we investigate optimization problems with nonnegative and orthogonal constraints, where any feasible matrix of size $n \times p$ exhibits a sparsity pattern such that each row accommodates at most one nonzero entry. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Xiaojun Chen

The target stationary distribution problem (TSDP) is the following: given an irreducible stochastic matrix $G$ and a target stationary distribution $\hat \mu$, construct a minimum norm perturbation, $\Delta$, such that $\hat G = G+\Delta$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Nicolas Gillis , Paul Van Dooren

We study linear chance-constrained problems where the coefficients follow a Gaussian mixture distribution. We provide mixed-binary quadratic programs that give inner and outer approximations of the chance constraint based on piecewise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Shibshankar Dey , Sanjay Mehrotra , Anirudh Subramanyam