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We consider the linear conic optimization problem with the cone of nonnegative polynomials. Its dual optimization problem is the generalized moment problem. Moment-SOS relaxations are powerful for solving them. This paper studies finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Lei Huang , Jiawang Nie , Ya-Xiang Yuan

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

This paper studies the hierarchy of sparse matrix Moment-SOS relaxations for solving sparse polynomial optimization problems with matrix constraints. First, we prove a sufficient and necessary condition for the sparse hierarchy to be tight.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Jiawang Nie , Zheng Qu , Xindong Tang , Linghao Zhang

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

The moment-SOS (sum of squares) hierarchy is a powerful approach for solving globally non-convex polynomial optimization problems (POPs) at the price of solving a family of convex semidefinite optimization problems (called moment-SOS…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Didier Henrion

In this paper, we develop a dynamical system counterpart to the term sparsity sum-of-squares (TSSOS) algorithm proposed for static polynomial optimization. This allows for computational savings and improved scalability while preserving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Jie Wang , Corbinian Schlosser , Milan Korda , Victor Magron

Recently a moment-sum-of-squares hierarchy for exit location estimation of stochastic processes has been presented. When restricting to the special case of the unit ball, we show that the solutions approach the optimal value by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Corbinian Schlosser , Matteo Tacchi

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 is concerned with polynomial optimization problems. We show how to exploit term (or monomial) sparsity of the input polynomials to obtain a new converging hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations. The novelty (and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

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

The Sum-of-Squares (SOS) approximation method is a technique used in optimization problems to derive lower bounds on the optimal value of an objective function. By representing the objective function as a sum of squares in a feature space,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Francis Bach , Elisabetta Cornacchia , Luca Pesce , Giovanni Piccioli

We consider the Moment-SOS hierarchy in polynomial optimization. We first provide a sufficient condition to solve the truncated K-moment problem associated with a given degree-$2n$ pseudo-moment sequence $\phi$ n and a semi-algebraic set $K…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Jean B Lasserre

Chvatal-Gomory (CG) cuts and the Bienstock-Zuckerberg hierarchy capture useful linear programs that the standard bounded degree Lasserre/Sum-of-Squares SOS hierarchy fails to capture. In this paper we present a novel polynomial time SOS…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Monaldo Mastrolilli

This paper presents algorithms that upper-bound the peak value of a state function along trajectories of a continuous-time system with rational dynamics. The finite-dimensional but nonconvex peak estimation problem is cast as a convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Jared Miller , Roy S. Smith

Using standard tools of harmonic analysis, we state and solve the problem of moments for non-negative measures supported on the unit ball of a Sobolev space of multivariate periodic trigonometric functions. We describe outer and inner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Didier Henrion , Alessandro Rudi

We study the convergence rate of moment-sum-of-squares hierarchies of semidefinite programs for optimal control problems with polynomial data. It is known that these hierarchies generate polynomial under-approximations to the value function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Milan Korda , Didier Henrion , Colin N. Jones

Sum of squares (SOS) optimization is a powerful technique for solving problems where the positivity of a polynomials must be enforced. The common approach to solve an SOS problem is by relaxation to a Semidefinite Program (SDP). The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Daniel Keren , Margarita Osadchy , Roi Poranne

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

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 work is a follow-up and a complement to arXiv:1912.08899 [math.OC] for solving polynomial optimization problems (POPs). The chordal-TSSOS hierarchy that we propose is a new sparse moment-SOS framework based on term-sparsity and chordal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Jean-Bernard Lasserre