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We revisit the convergence analysis of two approximation hierarchies for polynomial optimization on the unit sphere. The first one is based on the moment-sos approach and gives semidefinite bounds for which Fang and Fawzi (2021) showed an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Alexander Taveira Blomenhofer , Monique Laurent

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

This paper introduces a Moment-Quaternion-Sum-of-Squares (QSOS) hierarchy for solving a class of quaternion polynomial optimization problems. This hierarchy is formulated directly in the quaternion domain and consists of a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Yanqing Liu , Jie Wang

The design of minimum-compliance bending-resistant structures with continuous cross-section parameters is a challenging task because of its inherent non-convexity. Our contribution develops a strategy that facilitates computing all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Marek Tyburec , Jan Zeman , Martin Kružík , Didier Henrion

This paper studies matrix constrained polynomial optimization. We investigate how to get explicit expressions for Lagrange multiplier matrices from the first order optimality conditions. The existence of these expressions can be shown under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Lei Huang , Jiawang Nie , Jiajia Wang , Lingling Xie

We establish new convergence rates for the Moment-Sum-of-Squares (Moment-SoS) relaxations for the Generalized Moment Problem (GMP) with countable moment constraints on vectors of measures, under dual optimum attainment, $S$-fullness and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Lucas Gamertsfelder , Bernard Mourrain

In this paper, we study the problem of computing by relaxation hierarchies the infimum of a real polynomial function f on a closed basic semialgebraic set and the points where this infimum is reached, if they exist. We show that when the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Marta Abril Bucero , Bernard Mourrain

We use tropicalization to study the duals to cones of nonnegative polynomials and sums of squares on a semialgebraic set $S$. The truncated cones of moments of measures supported on the set $S$ is dual to nonnegative polynomials on $S$,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Grigoriy Blekherman , Felipe Rincón , Rainer Sinn , Cynthia Vinzant , Josephine Yu

We give a new framework for proving the existence of low-degree, polynomial approximators for Boolean functions with respect to broad classes of non-product distributions. Our proofs use techniques related to the classical moment problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Adam Klivans , Raghu Meka

We present a polynomial time algorithm to approximately scale tensors of any format to arbitrary prescribed marginals (whenever possible). This unifies and generalizes a sequence of past works on matrix, operator and tensor scaling. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Peter Bürgisser , Cole Franks , Ankit Garg , Rafael Oliveira , Michael Walter , Avi Wigderson

The moment sum of squares (moment-SOS) hierarchy produces sequences of upper and lower bounds on functionals of the exit time solution of a polynomial stochastic differential equation with polynomial constraints, at the price of solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Didier Henrion , Mauricio Junca , Mauricio Velasco

One considers polynomial optimization problems with compact feasible set $\mathbf{\Omega}$ defined by SOS-concave polynomials $g_j$, and with a globally non-convex polynomial objective $f$. We show that if $f$ is strongly convex on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Srećko Ðurašinović , Jean B. Lasserre

In this work, our aim is to obtain conditions to assure polynomial approximation in Hilbert spaces $L^{2}(\mu)$, with $\mu$ a compactly supported measure in the complex plane, in terms of properties of the associated moment matrix to the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Carmen Escribano , Raquel Gonzalo , Emilio Torrano

Let $L$ be a linear operator on univariate polynomials of bounded degree, mapping into real symmetric matrices, such that its moment matrix is positive definite. It is known that $L$ admits a finitely atomic positive matrix-valued…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Aljaž Zalar , Igor Zobovič

In a 2014 paper, R.E. Curto and S. Yoo proved that a moment matrix $M(3)$ with specific harmonic polynomials as column relations admits a representing measure if and only if a condition at the level of moments holds. \ In this paper, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Raúl E. Curto , Marc R. Moore

We study exact matrix completion from partially available data with hidden connectivity patterns. Exact matrix completion was shown to be possible recently by Cosse and Demanet in 2021 with Lasserre's relaxation using the trace of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Godai Azuma , Sunyoung Kim , Makoto Yamashita

The moment-SOS hierarchy is a widely applicable framework to address polynomial optimization problems over basic semi-algebraic sets based on positivity certificates of polynomial. Recent works show that the convergence rate of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Hoang Anh Tran , Toh Kim-Chuan

We propose convex optimization algorithms to recover a good approximation of a point measure $\mu$ on the unit sphere $S\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ from its moments with respect to a set of real-valued functions $f_1,\dots, f_m$. Given a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Hernán García , Camilo Hernández , Mauricio Junca , Mauricio Velasco

In this paper we show that Sum-of-Squares optimization can be used to find optimal semialgebraic representations of sets. These sets may be explicitly defined, as in the case of discrete points or unions of sets; or implicitly defined, as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Morgan Jones , Matthew M. Peet

This paper considers polynomial optimization with unbounded sets. We give a homogenization formulation and propose a hierarchy of Moment-SOS relaxations to solve it. Under the assumptions that the feasible set is closed at infinity and the…

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