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We consider a new hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations for the general polynomial optimization problem $(P):\:f^{\ast}=\min \{\,f(x):x\in K\,\}$ on a compact basic semi-algebraic set $K\subset\R^n$. This hierarchy combines some advantages…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Toh Kim-Chuan , Yang Shouguang

Effective Positivstellens\"atze provide convergence rates for the moment-sum-of-squares (SoS) hierarchy for polynomial optimization (POP). In this paper, we add a qualitative property to the recent advances in those effective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Corbinian Schlosser

The aim of this paper is to study the full $K-$moment problem for measures supported on some particular non-linear subsets $K$ of an infinite dimensional vector space. We focus on the case of random measures, that is $K$ is a subset of all…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Maria Infusino , Tobias Kuna

In this paper, we develop a dynamical system counterpart to the term sparsity sum-of-squares (TSSOS) algorithm proposed for static polynomial optimization. This allows for computational savings and improved scalability while preserving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Jie Wang , Corbinian Schlosser , Milan Korda , Victor Magron

Using standard tools of harmonic analysis, we state and solve the problem of moments for non-negative measures supported on the unit ball of a Sobolev space of multivariate periodic trigonometric functions. We describe outer and inner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Didier Henrion , Alessandro Rudi

We consider the problem of finding the global optimum of a real-valued complex polynomial on a compact set defined by real-valued complex polynomial inequalities. It reduces to solving a sequence of complex semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Cédric Josz , Daniel K. Molzahn

The moment-SOS hierarchy is a widely applicable framework to address polynomial optimization problems over basic semi-algebraic sets based on positivity certificates of polynomial. Recent works show that the convergence rate of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Hoang Anh Tran , Toh Kim-Chuan

We formulate a class of nonlinear {evolution} partial differential equations (PDEs) as linear optimization problems on moments of positive measures supported on infinite-dimensional vector spaces. Using sums of squares (SOS) representations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Didier Henrion , Maria Infusino , Salma Kuhlmann , Victor Vinnikov

This paper studies distributionally robust optimization (DRO) when the ambiguity set is given by moments for the distributions. The objective and constraints are given by polynomials in decision variables. We reformulate the DRO with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Jiawang Nie , Liu Yang , Suhan Zhong , Guangming Zhou

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

Non-commutative polynomial optimization is a powerful technique with numerous applications in quantum nonlocality, quantum key distribution, causal inference, many-body physics, amongst others. The standard approach is to reduce such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Andrew J. P. Garner , Mateus Araújo

We briefly recall basics of the Moment-SOS hierarchy in polynomial optimization and the Christoffel-Darboux kernel (and the Christoffel function (CF)) in theory of approximation and orthogonal polynomials. We then (i) show a strong link…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jean-Bernard Lasserre

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 this paper, we study the global optimality of polynomial portfolio optimization (PPO). The PPO is a kind of portfolio selection model with high-order moments and flexible risk preference parameters. We introduce a perturbation sample…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Liu Yang , Yi Yang , Suhan Zhong

Due to its intimate relation to Spectral Theory and Schr\"{o}dinger operators, the multivariate moment problem has been a subject of many researches, so far without essential success (if one compares with the one--dimensional case). In the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ognyan Kounchev , Hermann Render

This paper proposes a bilevel hierarchy of strengthened complex moment relaxations for complex polynomial optimization. The key trick entails considering a class of positive semidefinite conditions that arise naturally in characterizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Jie Wang

Handling an infinite number of inequality constraints in infinite-dimensional spaces occurs in many fields, from global optimization to optimal transport. These problems have been tackled individually in several previous articles through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Alessandro Rudi

This paper studies Positivstellens\"atze and moment problems for sets $K$ that are given by universal quantifiers. Let $Q$ be a closed set and let $g = (g_1,...,g_s)$ be a tuple of polynomials in two vector variables $x$ and $y$. Then $K$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Xiaomeng Hu , Igor Klep , Jiawang Nie

We investigate the problem of representing moment sequences by measures in the context ofPolynomial Optimization Problems, that consist in finding the infimum of a real polynomial ona real semialgebraic set defined by polynomial…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Lorenzo Baldi , Bernard Mourrain

This paper studies stochastic optimization problems with polynomials. We propose an optimization model with sample averages and perturbations. The Lasserre type Moment-SOS relaxations are used to solve the sample average optimization.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Jiawang Nie , Liu Yang , Suhan Zhong