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This paper proposes a real moment-HSOS hierarchy for complex polynomial optimization problems with real coefficients. We show that this hierarchy provides the same sequence of lower bounds as the complex analogue, yet is much cheaper to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jie Wang , Victor Magron

This chapter investigates how symmetries can be used to reduce the computational complexity in polynomial optimization problems. A focus will be specifically given on the Moment-SOS hierarchy in polynomial optimization, where results from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Philippe Moustrou , Cordian Riener , Hugues Verdure

The problem of minimizing a polynomial over a set of polynomial inequalities is an NP-hard non-convex problem. Thanks to powerful results from real algebraic geometry, one can convert this problem into a nested sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Victor Magron , Jie Wang

We introduce a sublevel Moment-SOS hierarchy where each SDP relaxation can be viewed as an intermediate (or interpolation) between the d-th and (d+1)-th order SDP relaxations of the Moment-SOS hierarchy (dense or sparse version). With the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Tong Chen , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron , Edouard Pauwels

In this paper, we present a branch and bound algorithm for extracting approximate solutions to Global Polynomial Optimization (GPO) problems with bounded feasible sets. The algorithm is based on a combination of SOS/Moment relaxations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Hesameddin Mohammadi , Matthew M. Peet

A polynomial matrix inequality is a formula asserting that a polynomial matrix is positive semidefinite. Polynomial matrix optimization concerns minimizing the smallest eigenvalue of a symmetric polynomial matrix subject to a tuple of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Jared Miller , Jie Wang , Feng Guo

This paper studies the matrix Moment-SOS hierarchy for solving polynomial matrix optimization. Our first result is to show the finite convergence of this hierarchy, if the nondegeneracy condition, strict complementarity condition and second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Lei Huang , Jiawang Nie

The moment-sum-of-squares (moment-SOS) hierarchy is one of the most celebrated and widely applied methods for approximating the minimum of an n-variate polynomial over a feasible region defined by polynomial (in)equalities. A key feature of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Sander Gribling , Sven Polak , Lucas Slot

Optimization over non-negative polynomials is fundamental for nonlinear systems analysis and control. We investigate the relation between three tractable relaxations for optimizing over sparse non-negative polynomials: sparse sum-of-squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou

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

In this paper we study various approaches for exploiting symmetries in polynomial optimization problems within the framework of semi definite programming relaxations. Our special focus is on constrained problems especially when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-22 Cordian Riener , Thorsten Theobald , Lina Jansson Andrén , Jean B. Lasserre

We identify a new sufficient condition for the finite convergence of moment relaxations of polynomial optimization problems with correlative sparsity. This condition, which follows from a solution to a correlatively sparse version of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Giovanni Fantuzzi , Federico Fuentes

This paper discusses how to find the global minimum of functions that are summations of small polynomials (``small'' means involving a small number of variables). Some sparse sum of squares (SOS) techniques are proposed. We compare their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Jiawang Nie , James Demmel

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

We consider the Moment-SOS hierarchy in polynomial optimization. We first provide a sufficient condition to solve the truncated K-moment problem associated with a given degree-$2n$ pseudo-moment sequence $\phi$ n and a semi-algebraic set $K…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Jean B Lasserre

With the potential to find global solutions, significant research interest has focused on convex relaxations of the non-convex OPF problem. Recently, "moment-based" relaxations from the Lasserre hierarchy for polynomial optimization have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Daniel K. Molzahn , Cedric Josz , Ian A. Hiskens , Patrick Panciatici

We explore a new type of sparsity for the generalized moment problem (GMP) that we call ideal-sparsity. This sparsity exploits the presence of equality constraints requiring the measure to be supported on the variety of an ideal generated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Milan Korda , Monique Laurent , Victor Magron , Andries Steenkamp

This thesis explores algorithmic applications and limitations of convex relaxation hierarchies for approximating some discrete and continuous optimization problems. - We show a dichotomy of approximability of constraint satisfaction…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Mrinalkanti Ghosh

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

We study polynomial optimization problems whose objective has a composition or tensor train structure. These polynomials can be evaluated as a sequence of maps, giving rise to intermediate variables (``states'') of dimension lower than the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Llorenç Balada Gaggioli , Didier Henrion , Milan Korda