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Elfving's Theorem is a major result in the theory of optimal experimental design, which gives a geometrical characterization of $c-$optimality. In this paper, we extend this theorem to the case of multiresponse experiments, and we show that…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-11-29 Guillaume Sagnol

The cone of positive-semidefinite (PSD) matrices is fundamental in convex optimization, and we extend this notion to tensors, defining PSD tensors, which correspond to separable quantum states. We study the convex optimization problem over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Liding Xu , Ye-Chao Liu , Sebastian Pokutta

In this paper, we investigate the recovery of the sparse representation of data in general infinite-dimensional optimization problems regularized by convex functionals. We show that it is possible to define a suitable non-degeneracy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Marcello Carioni , Leonardo Del Grande

In this paper we give a unified treatment of two different definitions of complementarity partition of multifold conic programs introduced independently in [J. F. Bonnans and H. Ram\'irez C., Math. Program. 104 (2005), no. 2-3, Ser. B,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Héctor Ramírez , Vera Roshchina

In this paper, we define a new type of nonsmooth convex function, called {\em first-order SDSOS-convex semi-algebraic function}, which is an extension of the previously proposed first-order SDSOS-convex polynomials (Chuong et al. in J…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Chengmiao Yang , Liguo Jiao , Jae Hyoung Lee

Certifying nonnegativity of polynomials is a well-known NP-hard problem with direct applications spanning non-convex optimization, control, robotics, and beyond. A sufficient condition for nonnegativity is the Sum of Squares (SOS) property,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Nico Pelleriti , Christoph Spiegel , Shiwei Liu , David Martínez-Rubio , Max Zimmer , Sebastian Pokutta

We revisit facial reduction from the point of view of projective geometry. This leads us to a homogenization strategy in conic programming that eliminates the phenomenon of weak infeasibility. For semidefinite programs (and others), this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Simone Naldi , Rainer Sinn

Numerical optimization (solving optimization problems using digital computers) currently dominates but has three major drawbacks: high energy consumption, poor scalability, and lack of an execution time certificate. To address these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Liang Wu , Ambrose Adegbege , Yongduan Song , Richard D. Braatz

We review several (and provide new) results on the theory of moments, sums of squares and basic semi-algebraic sets when convexity is present. In particular, we show that under convexity, the hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-04 Jean B. Lasserre

We present SuperSCS: a fast and accurate method for solving large-scale convex conic problems. SuperSCS combines the SuperMann algorithmic framework with the Douglas-Rachford splitting which is applied on the homogeneous self-dual embedding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Pantelis Sopasakis , Krina Menounou , Panagiotis Patrinos

We propose a new method based on sparse optimal discriminant clustering (SODC), incorporating a penalty term into the scoring matrix based on convex clustering. With the addition of this penalty term, it is expected to improve the accuracy…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-15 Mayu Hiraishi , Kensuke Tanioka , Hiroshi Yadohisa

We consider linear recurrences with polynomial coefficients of Poincar\'e type and with a unique simple dominant eigenvalue. We give an algorithm that proves or disproves positivity of solutions provided the initial conditions satisfy a…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Alaa Ibrahim , Bruno Salvy

We extend the standard notion of self-concordance to non-convex optimization and develop a family of second-order algorithms with global convergence guarantees. In particular, two function classes -- \textit{weakly self-concordant}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Donald Goldfarb , Lexiao Lai , Tianyi Lin , Jiayu Zhang

We present two criteria for checking approximate proper efficiency in vector optimization problems with the ordering cone being a nonnegative orthant. Although the criteria can be established by Benson's approach [H.P. Benson, \textit{An…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Nguyen Thi Thu Huong

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

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 present the improved so-called Madmax (OMC) operator selecting maxima of convexities computed in multiple directions around each pixel rewritten in MatLab and shown to be very efficient for pattern recognition. The aim of the algorithm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy

This work presents a new algorithm for empirical risk minimization. The algorithm bridges the gap between first- and second-order methods by computing a search direction that uses a second-order-type update in one subspace, coupled with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Majid Jahani , Mohammadreza Nazari , Rachael Tappenden , Albert S. Berahas , Martin Takáč

In (Davis and Papp, 2022), the authors introduced the concept of dual certificates of (weighted) sum-of-squares polynomials, which are vectors from the dual cone of weighted sums of squares (WSOS) polynomials that can be interpreted as…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Maria M. Davis , Dávid Papp