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This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for testing copositivity of homogeneous polynomials over the positive semidefinite cone. The algorithm is based on a novel matrix optimization reformulation and requires solving a hierarchy of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Lei Huang , Lingling Xie

A real symmetric matrix (resp., tensor) is said to be copositive if the associated quadratic (resp., homogeneous) form is greater than or equal to zero over the nonnegative orthant. The problem of detecting their copositivity is NP-hard.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Jiawang Nie , Zi Yang , Xinzhen Zhang

Real world datasets are heavily skewed where some classes are significantly outnumbered by the other classes. In these situations, machine learning algorithms fail to achieve substantial efficacy while predicting these under-represented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Mimi Mukherjee , Matloob Khushi

Complete monotonicity is a strong positivity property for real-valued functions on convex cones. It is certified by the kernel of the inverse Laplace transform. We study this for negative powers of hyperbolic polynomials. Here the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Khazhgali Kozhasov , Mateusz Michałek , Bernd Sturmfels

In (Kabanets, Impagliazzo, 2004) it is shown how to decide the circuit polynomial identity testing problem (CPIT) in deterministic subexponential time, assuming hardness of some explicit multilinear polynomial family for arithmetical…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-10-09 Maurice Jansen

In this report, we study partial quantifier elimination (PQE) for propositional CNF formulas. PQE is a generalization of quantifier elimination where one can limit the set of clauses taken out of the scope of quantifiers to a small subset…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Eugene Goldberg

New results on computing certificates of strictly positive polynomials in Archimedean quadratic modules are presented. The results build upon (i) Averkov's method for generating a strictly positive polynomial for which a membership…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Weifeng Shang , Jose Abel Castellanos Joo , Chenqi Mou , Deepak Kapur

In this work, the combine the theory of generalized critical values with the theory of iterated rings of bounded elements (real holomorphy rings). We consider the problem of computing the global infimum of a real polynomial in several…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Markus Schweighofer

With every real polynomial $f$, we associate a family $\{f_{\epsilon r}\}_{\epsilon, r}$ of real polynomials, in explicit form in terms of $f$ and the parameters $\epsilon>0,r\in N$, and such that $\Vert f-f_{\epsilon r}\Vert_1\to 0$ as…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean B. Lasserre

This work is concerned with different aspects of spectrahedra and their projections, sets that are important in semidefinite optimization. We prove results on the limitations of so called Lasserre and theta body relaxation methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-28 João Gouveia , Tim Netzer

In this paper we study the complexity of constructing a hitting set for the closure of VP, the class of polynomials that can be infinitesimally approximated by polynomials that are computed by polynomial sized algebraic circuits, over the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Michael A. Forbes , Amir Shpilka

Unsupervised sentence embedding aims to obtain the most appropriate embedding for a sentence to reflect its semantic. Contrastive learning has been attracting developing attention. For a sentence, current models utilize diverse data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Hao Wang , Yangguang Li , Zhen Huang , Yong Dou , Lingpeng Kong , Jing Shao

We present a proof architecture for \(P \neq NP\) based on an upper--lower clash in polytime-capped conditional description length. We construct an efficiently samplable family of SAT instances \(Y\) such that every satisfying witness for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Ben Goertzel

For a finite set $\cal F$ of polynomials over fixed finite prime field of size $p$ containing all polynomials $x^2 - x$ a Nullstellensatz proof of the unsolvability of the system $$ f = 0\ ,\ \mbox{ all } f \in {\cal F} $$ in the field is a…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Jan Krajicek

We extend previous results about Putinar's Positivstellensatz for cylinders of type $S \times {\mathbb R}$ to sets of type $S \times {\mathbb R}^r$ in some special cases taking into account $r$ and the degree of the polynomial with respect…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Paula Escorcielo , Daniel Perrucci

Let ${\mathbf P}$ be the class of polynomial-time decision problems and $\mathbf{NP}$ be the class of nondeterministic polynomial time decision problems. We prove the following: Theorem 3. The classes ${\mathbf P}$ and $\mathbf{NP}$ are…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Petar P. Petrov

Certifiable robustness gives the guarantee that small perturbations around an input to a classifier will not change the prediction. There are two approaches to provide certifiable robustness to adversarial examples: a) explicitly training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Meiyu Zhong , Ravi Tandon

The analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data often involves fitting a latent variable model to learn a low-dimensional representation for the cells. Validating such a model poses a major challenge. If we could sequence the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-25 Anna Neufeld , Joshua Popp , Lucy L. Gao , Alexis Battle , Daniela Witten

Based on the classical Degree Corrected Stochastic Blockmodel (DCSBM) model for network community detection problem, we propose two novel approaches: principal component clustering (PCC) and normalized principal component clustering (NPCC).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-11 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

A set $S\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is a nonnegativity witness for a set $U$ of real homogeneous polynomials if $F$ in $U$ is nonnegative on $\mathbb{R}^n$ if and only if it is nonnegative at all points of $S$. We prove that the union of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Jose Acevedo , Mauricio Velasco