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An exact algorithm is presented for solving edge weighted graph partitioning problems. The algorithm is based on a branch and bound method applied to a continuous quadratic programming formulation of the problem. Lower bounds are obtained…

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The purpose of the present article is the study of duals of functional codes on algebraic surfaces. We give a direct geometrical description of them, using differentials. Even if this geometrical description is less trivial, it can be…

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In this paper we propose distributed dual gradient algorithms for linearly constrained separable convex problems and analyze their rate of convergence under different assumptions. Under the strong convexity assumption on the primal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Ion Necoara , Valentin Nedelcu

Computational methods are proposed for solving a convex quadratic program (QP). Active-set methods are defined for a particular primal and dual formulation of a QP with general equality constraints and simple lower bounds on the variables.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Anders Forsgren , Philip E. Gill , Elizabeth Wong

The first part of this work established the foundations of a radial duality between nonnegative optimization problems, inspired by the work of (Renegar, 2016). Here we utilize our radial duality theory to design and analyze projection-free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Benjamin Grimmer

In the first part of this work [32], we introduce a convex parabolic relaxation for quadratically-constrained quadratic programs, along with a sequential penalized parabolic relaxation algorithm to recover near-optimal feasible solutions.…

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In this paper, we present a new approach to linearizing zero-one quadratic minimization problem which has many applications in computer science and communications. Our algorithm is based on the observation that the quadratic term of…

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The goal of this paper is to investigate new and simple convergence analysis of dynamic programming for linear quadratic regulator problem of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. In particular, bounds on errors are given in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Donghwan Lee

Tight and efficient neural network bounding is crucial to the scaling of neural network verification systems. Many efficient bounding algorithms have been presented recently, but they are often too loose to verify more challenging…

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The canonical duality theory has provided with a unified analytic solution to a range of discrete and continuous problems in global optimization, which can transform a nonconvex primal problem to a concave maximization dual problem over a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-04 Xiaojun Zhou

We present a general method for obtaining strong bounds for discrete optimization problems that is based on a concept of branching duality. It can be applied when no useful integer programming model is available, and we illustrate this with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-22 J. G. Benade , J. N. Hooker

The problem of minimizing a (nonconvex) quadratic form over the unit simplex, referred to as a standard quadratic program, admits an exact convex conic formulation over the computationally intractable cone of completely positive matrices.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Y. Gorkem Gokmen , E. Alper Yildirim

When computing bounds, spatial branch-and-bound algorithms often linearly outer approximate convex relaxations for non-convex expressions in order to capitalize on the efficiency and robustness of linear programming solvers. Considering…

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In this paper we propose two proximal gradient algorithms for fractional programming problems in real Hilbert spaces, where the numerator is a proper, convex and lower semicontinuous function and the denominator is a smooth function, either…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

Quadratic cone programs are rapidly becoming the standard canonical form for convex optimization problems. In this paper we address the question of differentiating the solution map for such problems, generalizing previous work for linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Quill Healey , Parth Nobel , Stephen Boyd

A conic program is the problem of optimizing a linear function over a closed convex cone intersected with an affine preimage of another cone. We analyse three constraint qualifications, namely a Closedness CQ, Slater CQ, and Boundedness CQ…

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Convexification techniques have gained increasing interest over the past decades. In this work, we apply a recently developed convexification technique for fractional programs by He, Liu and Tawarmalani (2024) to the problem of determining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Timotej Hrga , Melanie Siebenhofer , Angelika Wiegele

In this paper we present the solver DuQuad specialized for solving general convex quadratic problems arising in many engineering applications. When it is difficult to project on the primal feasible set, we use the (augmented) Lagrangian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-23 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu

In the vicinity of a solution of a nonlinear programming problem at which both strict complementarity and linear independence of the active constraints may fail to hold, we describe a technique for distinguishing weakly active from strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Stephen J. Wright

We provide three new proofs of the strong concavity of the dual function of some convex optimization problems. For problems with nonlinear constraints, we show that the the assumption of strong convexity of the objective cannot be weakened…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Vincent Guigues