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We are presenting a simple and numerical stable algorithm for the solution of the cone projection problem which is suitable for relative small data sets and for simulation purposes needed for convexity tests. Not even one pseudo-inverse…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-12 Demetris T. Christopoulos

In applications throughout science and engineering one is often faced with the challenge of solving an ill-posed inverse problem, where the number of available measurements is smaller than the dimension of the model to be estimated. However…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Venkat Chandrasekaran , Benjamin Recht , Pablo A. Parrilo , Alan S. Willsky

Consider convex optimization problems subject to a large number of constraints. We focus on stochastic problems in which the objective takes the form of expected values and the feasible set is the intersection of a large number of convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-13 Mengdi Wang , Yichen Chen , Jialin Liu , Yuantao Gu

This paper is aimed at presenting a systematic survey of the existing now different formulations for the problem of projection of the origin of the Euclidean space onto the convex polyhedron (PPOCP). In the present paper, there are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Z. R. Gabidullina

We consider minimizing a conic quadratic objective over a polyhedron. Such problems arise in parametric value-at-risk minimization, portfolio optimization, and robust optimization with ellipsoidal objective uncertainty; and they can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Alper Atamturk , Andres Gomez

In this paper we provide an efficient computation of the projection onto the cone generated by the epigraph of the perspective of any convex lower semicontinuous function. Our formula requires solving only two scalar equations involving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Luis M. Briceño-Arias , Cristóbal Vivar-Vargas

The simplex method in Linear Programming motivates several problems of asymptotic convex geometry. We discuss some conjectures and known results in two related directions -- computing the size of projections of high dimensional polytopes…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Roman Vershynin

Random projection (RP) is a classical technique for reducing storage and computational costs. We analyze RP-based approximations of convex programs, in which the original optimization problem is approximated by the solution of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

A new deconvolution algorithm based on orthogonal projections onto the epigraph set of a convex cost function is presented. In this algorithm, the dimension of the minimization problem is lifted by one and sets corresponding to the cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Mohammad Tofighi , Alican Bozkurt , A. Enis Cetin

Convex approximation sets for multiobjective optimization problems are a well-studied relaxation of the common notion of approximation sets. Instead of approximating each image of a feasible solution by the image of some solution in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Stephan Helfrich , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen

We discuss the problem of projecting a point onto an arbitrary hyperbolicity cone from both theoretical and numerical perspectives. While hyperbolicity cones are furnished with a generalization of the notion of eigenvalues, obtaining closed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Takayuki Nagano , Bruno F. Lourenço , Akiko Takeda

We propose a framework for modeling and solving low-rank optimization problems to certifiable optimality. We introduce symmetric projection matrices that satisfy $Y^2=Y$, the matrix analog of binary variables that satisfy $z^2=z$, to model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

This paper is concerned with the adaptation to hardware of methods for Euclidean norm projections onto the parity polytope and probability simplex. We first refine recent efforts to develop efficient methods of projection onto the parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Mitchell Wasson , Stark C. Draper

We propose a factorization-free method for orthogonal projection onto the positive semidefinite (PSD) cone, leveraging composite polynomial filtering. Inspired by recent advances in homomorphic encryption, our approach approximates the PSD…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Shucheng Kang , Haoyu Han , Antoine Groudiev , Heng Yang

Reconstructing a composition (union) of convex polytopes that perfectly fits the corresponding input point-cloud is a hard optimization problem with interesting applications in reverse engineering and rigid body dynamics simulations. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Markus Friedrich , Pierre-Alain Fayolle

We consider the nonlinear integer programming problem of minimizing a quadratic function over the integer points in variable dimension satisfying a system of linear inequalities. We show that when the Graver basis of the matrix defining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-08 Jon Lee , Shmuel Onn , Lyubov Romanchuk , Robert Weismantel

The projection onto the intersection of sets generally does not allow for a closed form even when the individual projection operators have explicit descriptions. In this work, we systematically analyze the projection onto the intersection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Heinz H. Bauschke , Minh N. Bui , Xianfu Wang

We study the problem of covering a given set of $n$ points in a high, $d$-dimensional space by the minimum enclosing polytope of a given arbitrary shape. We present algorithms that work for a large family of shapes, provided either only…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Rina Panigrahy

The Euclidean projection onto a convex set is an important problem that arises in numerous constrained optimization tasks. Unfortunately, in many cases, computing projections is computationally demanding. In this work, we focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Ilnura Usmanova , Maryam Kamgarpour , Andreas Krause , Kfir Yehuda Levy

We propose in this paper a general framework for deriving loss functions for structured prediction. In our framework, the user chooses a convex set including the output space and provides an oracle for projecting onto that set. Given that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Mathieu Blondel