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We consider optimization problems with polynomial inequality constraints in non-commuting variables. These non-commuting variables are viewed as bounded operators on a Hilbert space whose dimension is not fixed and the associated polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-18 Stefano Pironio , Miguel Navascues , Antonio Acin

The article is devoted to the development of numerical methods for solving saddle point problems and variational inequalities with simplified requirements for the smoothness conditions of functionals. Recently there were proposed some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Alexander Titov , Fedor Stonyakin , Mohammad Alkousa , Alexander Gasnikov

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

In this work we study convex relaxations of quadratic optimisation problems over permutation matrices. While existing semidefinite programming approaches can achieve remarkably tight relaxations, they have the strong disadvantage that they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Florian Bernard , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

Standard quadratic optimization problems (StQPs) provide a versatile modelling tool in various applications. In this paper, we consider StQPs with a hard sparsity constraint, referred to as sparse StQPs. We focus on various tractable convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Immanuel Bomze , Bo Peng , Yuzhou Qiu , E. Alper Yıldırım

Many high dimensional sparse learning problems are formulated as nonconvex optimization. A popular approach to solve these nonconvex optimization problems is through convex relaxations such as linear and semidefinite programming. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Zhaoran Wang , Quanquan Gu , Han Liu

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

We investigate finite-dimensional constrained structured optimization problems, featuring composite objective functions and set-membership constraints. Offering an expressive yet simple language, this problem class provides a modeling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Alberto De Marchi , Xiaoxi Jia , Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz

This paper introduces a computationally efficient method that converges globally to B-stationary points of mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs). B-stationarity is necessary for optimality and means that no feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Armin Nurkanović , Sven Leyffer

Real-world experiments involve batched & delayed feedback, non-stationarity, multiple objectives & constraints, and (often some) personalization. Tailoring adaptive methods to address these challenges on a per-problem basis is infeasible,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ethan Che , Daniel R. Jiang , Hongseok Namkoong , Jimmy Wang

This paper addresses a quadratic problem with assignment constraints, an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem arisen from facility location, multiple-input multiple-output detection, and maximum mean discrepancy calculation et al. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Lijun Xie , Ran Gu , Xin Liu

This paper is devoted to the theoretical and numerical investigation of an augmented Lagrangian method for the solution of optimization problems with geometric constraints. Specifically, we study situations where parts of the constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Xiaoxi Jia , Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth

Semidefinite relaxations of polynomial optimization have become a central tool for addressing the non-convex optimization problems over non-commutative operators that are ubiquitous in quantum information theory and, more in general,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Younes Naceur , Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Antonio Acín

Recently some specific classes of non-smooth and non-Lipschitz convex optimization problems were selected by Yu.~Nesterov along with H.~Lu. We consider convex programming problems with similar smoothness conditions for the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Alexander Titov , Fedor Stonyakin , Mohammad Alkousa , Seydamet Ablaev , Alexander Gasnikov

In this paper, we propose a class of super-schemes for efficiently solving nonlinear unconstrained optimization problems. The proposed approach introduces two novel choices of step-size parameters, leading to efficient descent directions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Tugal Zhanlav , Lkhamsuren Altangerel , Khuder Otgondorj

Binary optimization is a central problem in mathematical optimization and its applications are abundant. To solve this problem, we propose a new class of continuous optimization techniques which is based on Mathematical Programming with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Ganzhao Yuan , Bernard Ghanem

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.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Ramtin Madani , Mersedeh Ashraphijuo , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Alper Atamturk

This paper aims to find efficient solutions to a multi-objective optimization problem (MP) with convex polynomial data. To this end, a hybrid method, which allows us to transform problem (MP) into a scalar convex polynomial optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Jae Hyoung Lee , Nithirat Sisarat , Liguo Jiao

Variable selection is a fundamental task in statistical data analysis. Sparsity-inducing regularization methods are a popular class of methods that simultaneously perform variable selection and model estimation. The central problem is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Hongbo Dong , Kun Chen , Jeff Linderoth

For general quadratically-constrained quadratic programming (QCQP), we propose a parabolic relaxation described with convex quadratic constraints. An interesting property of the parabolic relaxation is that the original non-convex feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Ramtin Madani , Mersedeh Ashraphijuo , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Alper Atamturk