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We give new rounding schemes for SDP relaxations for the problems of maximizing cubic polynomials over the unit sphere and the $n$-dimensional hypercube. In both cases, the resulting algorithms yield a $O(\sqrt{n/k})$ multiplicative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari , Lucas Pesenti , Luca Trevisan

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 consider the global minimization of a polynomial on a compact set B. We show that each step of the Moment-SOS hierarchy has a nice and simple interpretation that complements the usual one. Namely, it computes coefficients of a polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Jean-Bernard Lasserre

This paper studies bilevel polynomial optimization problems. To solve them, we give a method based on polynomial optimization relaxations. Each relaxation is obtained from the Kurash-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions for the lower level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Jiawang Nie , Li Wang , Jane Ye , Suhan Zhong

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

In this paper, we study the \emph{sparse integer least squares problem} (SILS), an NP-hard variant of least squares with sparse $\{0, \pm 1\}$-vectors. We propose an $\ell_1$-based SDP relaxation, and a randomized algorithm for SILS, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Alberto Del Pia , Dekun Zhou

We show how to bound the accuracy of a family of semi-definite programming relaxations for the problem of polynomial optimization on the hypersphere. Our method is inspired by a set of results from quantum information known as quantum de…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-25 Andrew C. Doherty , Stephanie Wehner

Topology optimization of frame structures under free-vibration eigenvalue constraints constitutes a challenging nonconvex polynomial optimization problem with disconnected feasible sets. In this article, we first formulate it as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Marek Tyburec , Michal Kočvara , Marouan Handa , Jan Zeman

We show a new way to round vector solutions of semidefinite programming (SDP) hierarchies into integral solutions, based on a connection between these hierarchies and the spectrum of the input graph. We demonstrate the utility of our method…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-26 Boaz Barak , Prasad Raghavendra , David Steurer

This work is concerned with the proof-complexity of certifying that optimization problems do \emph{not} have good solutions. Specifically we consider bounded-degree "Sum of Squares" (SOS) proofs, a powerful algebraic proof system introduced…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Ryan O'Donnell , Yuan Zhou

The Moment-SOS hierarchy initially introduced in optimization in 2000, is based on the theory of the K-moment problem and its dual counterpart, polynomials that are positive on K. It turns out that this methodology can be also applied to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Jean Lasserre

This paper is devoted to the problem of minimizing a sum of rational functions over a basic semialgebraic set. We provide a hierarchy of sum of squares (SOS) relaxations that is dual to the generalized moment problem approach due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Feng Guo , Jie Wang , Jianhao Zheng

This paper establishes a statistical versus computational trade-off for solving a basic high-dimensional machine learning problem via a basic convex relaxation method. Specifically, we consider the {\em Sparse Principal Component Analysis}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Tengyu Ma , Avi Wigderson

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 Arrow Decomposition (AD) technique, initially introduced in [Mathematical Programming 190(1-2) (2021), pp 105-134], demonstrated superior scalability over the classical chordal decomposition in the context of Linear Matrix Inequalities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Marouan Handa , Marek Tyburec , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Victor Magron , Michal Kočvara

Finding a global solution to the optimal power flow (OPF) problem is difficult due to its nonconvexity. A convex relaxation in the form of semidefinite programming (SDP) has attracted much attention lately as it yields a global solution in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Cédric Josz , Jean Maeght , Patrick Panciatici , Jean Charles Gilbert

A relaxation method based on border basis reduction which improves the efficiency of Lasserre's approach is proposed to compute the optimum of a polynomial function on a basic closed semi algebraic set. A new stopping criterion is given to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Marta Abril Bucero , Bernard Mourrain

We show that (i) any constrained polynomial optimization problem (POP) has an equivalent formulation on a variety contained in an Euclidean sphere and (ii) the resulting semidefinite relaxations in the moment-SOS hierarchy have the constant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai , Victor Magron , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

We provide a new hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations, called NCTSSOS, to solve large-scale sparse noncommutative polynomial optimization problems. This hierarchy features the exploitation of term sparsity hidden in the input…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Jie Wang , Victor Magron

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