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A longstanding open problem in coding theory is to determine the best (asymptotic) rate $R_2(\delta)$ of binary codes with minimum constant (relative) distance $\delta$. An existential lower bound was given by Gilbert and Varshamov in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Leonardo Nagami Coregliano , Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Chris Jones

The sum-of-squares hierarchy of semidefinite programs has become a common tool for algorithm design in theoretical computer science, including problems in quantum information. In this work we study a connection between a Hermitian version…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Sujit Rao

In this paper, we consider a simplified error-correcting problem: for a fixed encoding process, to find a cascade connected quantum channel such that the worst fidelity between the input and the output becomes maximum. With the use of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Naoki Yamamoto , Shinji Hara , Koji Tsumura

The completely bounded trace and spectral norms, for finite-dimensional spaces, are known to be efficiently expressible by semidefinite programs (J. Watrous, Theory of Computing 5: 11, 2009). This paper presents two new, and arguably much…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 John Watrous

We present exact mixed-integer linear programming formulations for verifying the performance of first-order methods for parametric quadratic optimization. We formulate the verification problem as a mixed-integer linear program where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Vinit Ranjan , Jisun Park , Stefano Gualandi , Andrea Lodi , Bartolomeo Stellato

Motivated by the extensive application of approximate gradients in machine learning and optimization, we investigate inexact subgradient methods subject to persistent additive errors. Within a nonconvex semialgebraic framework, assuming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Jérôme Bolte , Tam Le , Éric Moulines , Edouard Pauwels

We show that a certain tensor norm, the completely bounded norm, can be expressed by a semidefinite program. This tensor norm recently attracted attention in the field of quantum computing, where it was used by Arunachalam, Bri\"{e}t and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Sander Gribling , Monique Laurent

We derive several efficiently computable converse bounds for quantum communication over quantum channels in both the one-shot and asymptotic regime. First, we derive one-shot semidefinite programming (SDP) converse bounds on the amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-06 Xin Wang , Kun Fang , Runyao Duan

We study and extend the semidefinite programming (SDP) hierarchies introduced in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 020501] for the characterization of the statistical correlations arising from finite dimensional quantum systems. First, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Miguel Navascues , Adrien Feix , Mateus Araujo , Tamas Vertesi

In this paper, we propose a low-rank coordinate descent approach to structured semidefinite programming with diagonal constraints. The approach, which we call the Mixing method, is extremely simple to implement, has no free parameters, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Po-Wei Wang , Wei-Cheng Chang , J. Zico Kolter

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

This paper provides a semidefinite programming hierarchy based on state polynomial optimization to determine the existence of quantum codes with given parameters. The hierarchy is complete, in the sense that a $(\!(n, K, {\delta})\!)_2$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Gerard Anglès Munné , Andrew Nemec , Felix Huber

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

In this paper we present a new semidefinite programming hierarchy for covering problems in compact metric spaces. Over the last years, these kind of hierarchies were developed primarily for geometric packing and for energy minimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Cordian Riener , Jan Rolfes , Frank Vallentin

Semidefinite programs are convex optimisation problems involving a linear objective function and a domain of positive semidefinite matrices. Over the last two decades, they have become an indispensable tool in quantum information science.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Armin Tavakoli , Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens , Peter Brown , Mateus Araújo

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

It is well-known that by adding integrality constraints to the semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the max-cut problem, the resulting integer semidefinite program is an exact formulation of the problem. In this paper we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Frank de Meijer , Renata Sotirov

For a large class of optimization problems, namely those that can be expressed as finite-valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs), we establish a dichotomy on the number of levels of the Lasserre hierarchy of semi-definite programs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Anuj Dawar , Pengming Wang

Building on the blueprint from Goemans and Williamson (1995) for the Max-Cut problem, we construct a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for orthogonally constrained quadratic optimization problems. First, we derive a semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

Motivated by applications in wireless communications, this paper develops semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation techniques for some mixed binary quadratically constrained quadratic programs (MBQCQP) and analyzes their approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Zi Xu , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo