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Estimating unknown rotations from noisy measurements is an important step in SfM and other 3D vision tasks. Typically, local optimization methods susceptible to returning suboptimal local minima are used to solve the rotation averaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Matthew Giamou , Filip Maric , Valentin Peretroukhin , Jonathan Kelly

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

In theory, hierarchies of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations based on sum of squares (SOS) polynomials have been shown to provide arbitrarily close approximations for a general polynomial optimization problem (POP). However, due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Xiaolong Kuang , Bissan Ghaddar , Joe Naoum-Sawaya , Luis F. Zuluaga

In polynomial optimization problems, nonnegativity constraints are typically handled using the sum of squares condition. This can be efficiently enforced using semidefinite programming formulations, or as more recently proposed by Papp and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Lea Kapelevich , Chris Coey , Juan Pablo Vielma

We study sum of squares (SOS) relaxations to optimize polynomial functions over a set $V\cap R^n$, where $V$ is a complex algebraic variety. We propose a new methodology that, rather than relying on some algebraic description, represents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Diego Cifuentes , Pablo A. Parrilo

This paper considers sparse polynomial optimization with unbounded sets. When the problem possesses correlative sparsity, we propose a sparse homogenized Moment-SOS hierarchy with perturbations to solve it. The new hierarchy introduces one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Lei Huang , Shucheng Kang , Jie Wang , Heng Yang

We propose a homogeneous primal-dual interior-point method to solve sum-of-squares optimization problems by combining non-symmetric conic optimization techniques and polynomial interpolation. The approach optimizes directly over the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Dávid Papp , Sercan Yıldız

This paper studies the polynomial optimization problem whose feasible set is a union of several basic closed semialgebraic sets. We propose a unified hierarchy of Moment-SOS relaxations to solve it globally. Under some assumptions, we prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Jiawang Nie , Linghao Zhang

Simply put, a sparse polynomial is one whose zero coefficients are not explicitly stored. Such objects are ubiquitous in exact computing, and so naturally we would like to have efficient algorithms to handle them. However, with this compact…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Daniel S. Roche

One of the desirable objectives in feedback control design is to formulate and solve the design problem as an optimisation problem that is convex, so that an optimal solution can be found efficiently. Unfortunately many control design…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Matthew Newton , Zuxun Xiong , Han Wang , Antonis Papachristodoulou

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 article focuses on optimization of polynomials in noncommuting variables, while taking into account sparsity in the input data. A converging hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations for eigenvalue and trace optimization is provided. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Igor Klep , Victor Magron , Janez Povh

Global optimization has gained attraction over the past decades, thanks to the development of both theoretical foundations and efficient numerical routines. Among recent advances, Kernel Sum of Squares (KernelSOS) provides a powerful…

Sparse Optimal Scoring (SOS) reformulates linear discriminant analysis to enable feature selection through elastic net regularization, making it well-suited for high-dimensional settings where the number of features exceeds observations.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-29 Sharmin Afroz , Brendan Ames

In a recent note [8], the author provides a counterexample to the global convergence of what his work refers to as "the DSOS and SDSOS hierarchies" for polynomial optimization problems (POPs) and purports that this refutes claims in our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Anirudha Majumdar

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

We introduce a sublevel Moment-SOS hierarchy where each SDP relaxation can be viewed as an intermediate (or interpolation) between the d-th and (d+1)-th order SDP relaxations of the Moment-SOS hierarchy (dense or sparse version). With the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Tong Chen , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron , Edouard Pauwels

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

The moment-SOS (sum of squares) hierarchy is a powerful approach for solving globally non-convex polynomial optimization problems (POPs) at the price of solving a family of convex semidefinite optimization problems (called moment-SOS…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Didier Henrion

This work is a follow-up and a complement to arXiv:1912.08899 [math.OC] for solving polynomial optimization problems (POPs). The chordal-TSSOS hierarchy that we propose is a new sparse moment-SOS framework based on term-sparsity and chordal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Jean-Bernard Lasserre