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This paper proposes tight semidefinite relaxations for polynomial optimization. The optimality conditions are investigated. We show that generally Lagrange multipliers can be expressed as polynomial functions in decision variables over the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Jiawang Nie

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

A relaxation method based on border basis reduction which improves the efficiency of Lasserre's approach is proposed to compute the optimum of a polynomial function on a basic closed semi algebraic set. A new stopping criterion is given to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Marta Abril Bucero , Bernard Mourrain

The value of a highly oscillatory integral is typically determined asymptotically by the behaviour of the integrand near a small number of critical points. These include the endpoints of the integration domain and the so-called stationary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Daan Huybrechs , Arno B. J. Kuijlaars , Nele Lejon

The aim of this paper is to solve linear semidefinite programs arising from higher-order Lasserre relaxations of unconstrained binary quadratic optimization problems. For this we use an interior point method with a preconditioned conjugate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Soodeh Habibi , Michal Kocvara , Michael Stingl

We investigate the problem of computing tensor product multiplicities for complex semisimple Lie algebras. Even though computing these numbers is #P-hard in general, we show that if the rank of the Lie algebra is assumed fixed, then there…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Jesús A. De Loera , Tyrrell B. McAllister

An algorithm which computes a solution of a set optimization problem is provided. The graph of the objective map is assumed to be given by finitely many linear inequalities. A solution is understood to be a set of points in the domain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Andreas Löhne , Carola Schrage

We propose a method to compute the numerical solutions of a polynomial system in complete intersection. This algorithm makes use of Bezout matrices and need only linear algebra computations. All the calculations can be done in floating…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Jean-Paul Cardinal

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 consider systems of polynomial equations and inequalities in $\mathbb{Q}[\boldsymbol{y}][\boldsymbol{x}]$ where $\boldsymbol{x} = (x_1, \ldots, x_n)$ and $\boldsymbol{y} = (y_1, \ldots,y_t)$. The $\boldsymbol{y}$ indeterminates are…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Louis Gaillard , Mohab Safey El Din

We solve large-scale mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) via distributed asynchronous saddle point computation. This is motivated by the MILPs being able to model problems in multi-agent autonomy, e.g., task assignment problems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Luke Fina , Matthew Hale

Consider a finite system of non-strict polynomial inequalities with solution set $S\subseteq\mathbb R^n$. Its Lasserre relaxation of degree $d$ is a certain natural linear matrix inequality in the original variables and one additional…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Tom-Lukas Kriel , Markus Schweighofer

This paper introduces a preconditioned method designed to comprehensively address the saddle point system with the aim of improving convergence efficiency. In the preprocessor construction phase, a technical approach for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Juan Zhang , Yiyi Luo

A central challenge to using first-order methods for optimizing nonconvex problems is the presence of saddle points. First-order methods often get stuck at saddle points, greatly deteriorating their performance. Typically, to escape from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Sashank J Reddi , Manzil Zaheer , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Francis Bach , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Alexander J Smola

Evaluating a polynomial on a set of points is a fundamental task in computer algebra. In this work, we revisit a particular variant called trimmed multipoint evaluation: given an $n$-variate polynomial with bounded individual degree $d$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Nick Fischer , Melvin Kallmayer , Leo Wennmann

Saddle point optimization is a critical problem employed in numerous real-world applications, including portfolio optimization, generative adversarial networks, and robotics. It has been extensively studied in cases where the objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shubhankar Agarwal , Hamzah I. Khan , Sandeep P. Chinchali , David Fridovich-Keil

We derive stability criteria for saddle points of a class of nonsmooth optimization problems in Hilbert spaces arising in PDE-constrained optimization, using metric regularity of infinite-dimensional set-valued mappings. A main ingredient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Christian Clason , Tuomo Valkonen

We present two methods to algorithmically compute both least and greatest solutions of polynomial equation systems over absorptive semirings (with certain completeness and continuity assumptions), such as the tropical semiring. Both methods…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Matthias Naaf

The paper considers approaches to saddle point problems with a two-sided variant of the Polyak-Lojasievich condition based on the gradient method with inexact information and proposes a stopping rule based on the smallness of the norm of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-28 A. Ya. Muratidi , F. S. Stonyakin

We extend the Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm to solve constrained smooth convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems. Remarkably, the method only requires access to linear minimization oracles. Leveraging recent advances in FW…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Gauthier Gidel , Tony Jebara , Simon Lacoste-Julien