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This work proposes a new moment-SOS hierarchy, called CS-TSSOS, for solving large-scale sparse polynomial optimization problems. Its novelty is to exploit simultaneously correlative sparsity and term sparsity by combining advantages of two…

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Effective Positivstellens\"atze provide convergence rates for the moment-sum-of-squares (SoS) hierarchy for polynomial optimization (POP). In this paper, we add a qualitative property to the recent advances in those effective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Corbinian Schlosser

The use of convex relaxations has lately gained considerable interest in Power Systems. These relaxations play a major role in providing global optimality guarantees for non-convex optimization problems. For the Optimal Power Flow (OPF)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Hassan Hijazi , Carleton Coffrin , Pascal Van Hentenryck

In computer vision, many problems such as image segmentation, pixel labelling, and scene parsing can be formulated as binary quadratic programs (BQPs). For submodular problems, cuts based methods can be employed to efficiently solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Philip H. S. Torr

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an important discrete optimization instance that encompasses many well-known combinatorial optimization problems, and has applications in a wide range of areas such as logistics and computer vision.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Junyu Chen , Yong Sheng Soh

We study the maximization of sums of heterogeneous quadratic forms over the Stiefel manifold, a nonconvex problem that arises in several modern signal processing and machine learning applications such as heteroscedastic probabilistic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Kyle Gilman , Sam Burer , Laura Balzano

Convex relaxation methods are powerful tools for studying the lowest energy of many-body problems. By relaxing the representability conditions for marginals to a set of local constraints, along with a global semidefinite constraint, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Yi Wang , Rizheng Huang , Yuehaw Khoo

This paper studies a class of so-called linear semi-infinite polynomial programming (LSIPP) problems. It is a subclass of linear semi-infinite programming problems whose constraint functions are polynomials in parameters and index sets are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Feng Guo , Xiaoxia Sun

In this paper, we propose a new convergent conic programming hierarchy of relaxations involving both semi-definite cone and second-order cone constraints for solving nonconvex polynomial optimization problems to global optimality. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 T. D Chuong , V. Jeyakumar , G. Li

This paper presents a pseudo-spectral method for Dynamic Optimization Problems (DOPs) that allows for tight polynomial bounds to be achieved via flexible sub-intervals. The proposed method not only rigorously enforces inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Eduardo M. G. Vila , Eric C. Kerrigan , Paul Bruce

We study the polynomial optimization problem of minimizing a multihomogeneous polynomial over the product of spheres. This polynomial optimization problem models the tensor optimization problem of finding the best rank one approximation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Sami Halaseh , Victor Magron , Mateusz Skomra

We propose a new homotopy-based conditional gradient method for solving convex optimization problems with a large number of simple conic constraints. Instances of this template naturally appear in semidefinite programming problems arising…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Pavel Dvurechensky , Gabriele Iommazzo , Shimrit Shtern , Mathias Staudigl

This paper studies the sparse Moment-SOS hierarchy of relaxations for solving sparse polynomial optimization problems. We show that this sparse hierarchy is tight if and only if the objective can be written as a sum of sparse nonnegative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Jiawang Nie , Zheng Qu , Xindong Tang , Linghao Zhang

In this paper, we study a class of fractional semi-infinite polynomial programming problems involving s.o.s-convex polynomial functions. For such a problem, by a conic reformulation proposed in our previous work and the quadratic modules…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Feng Guo , Meijun Zhang

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

This paper studies an optimization problem on the sum of traces of matrix quadratic forms on $m$ orthogonal matrices, which can be considered as a generalization of the synchronization of rotations. While the problem is nonconvex, the paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Teng Zhang

Let $p$ be a real zero polynomial in $n$ variables. Then $p$ defines a rigidly convex set $C(p)$. We construct a linear matrix inequality of size $n+1$ in the same $n$ variables that depends only on the cubic part of $p$ and defines a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Markus Schweighofer

This work studies the problem of maximizing a higher degree real homogeneous multivariate polynomial over the unit sphere. This problem is equivalent to finding the leading eigenvalue of the associated symmetric tensor of higher order,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Yuning Yang , Guoyin Li

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

Polynomial optimization problems represent a wide class of optimization problems, with a large number of real-world applications. Current approaches for polynomial optimization, such as the sum of squares (SOS) method, rely on large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Dick den Hertog , Thodoris Koukouvinos