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We present a new data structure for representation of polynomial variables in the parsing of sum-of-squares (SOS) programs. In SOS programs, the variables $s(x;Q)$ are polynomial in the independent variables $x$, but linear in the decision…

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In subset selection we search for the best linear predictor that involves a small subset of variables. From a computational complexity viewpoint, subset selection is NP-hard and few classes are known to be solvable in polynomial time. Using…

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Sparse tensor algebra is a challenging class of workloads to accelerate due to low arithmetic intensity and varying sparsity patterns. Prior sparse tensor algebra accelerators have explored tiling sparse data to increase exploitable data…

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Polynomial optimization problems are infinite-dimensional, nonconvex, NP-hard, and are often handled in practice with the moment-sums of squares hierarchy of semidefinite programming bounds. We consider problems where the objective function…

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This paper considers sparse polynomial optimization with unbounded sets. When the problem possesses correlative sparsity, we propose a sparse homogenized Moment-SOS hierarchy with perturbations to solve it. The new hierarchy introduces one…

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A polynomial matrix inequality is a formula asserting that a polynomial matrix is positive semidefinite. Polynomial matrix optimization concerns minimizing the smallest eigenvalue of a symmetric polynomial matrix subject to a tuple of…

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We present a novel, general, and unifying point of view on sparse approaches to polynomial optimization. Solving polynomial optimization problems to global optimality is a ubiquitous challenge in many areas of science and engineering.…

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This paper studies the sparse Moment-SOS hierarchy of relaxations for solving sparse polynomial optimization problems. We show that this sparse hierarchy is tight if and only if the objective can be written as a sum of sparse nonnegative…

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Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are a class of problems that are ubiquitous in science and engineering. It features a collection of constraints specified over subsets of variables. A CSP can be solved either directly or by reducing…

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This paper introduces HyperNOs, a PyTorch library designed to streamline and automate the process of exploring neural operators, with a special focus on hyperparameter optimization for comprehensive and exhaustive exploration. Indeed,…

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We present POLO --- a C++ library for large-scale parallel optimization research that emphasizes ease-of-use, flexibility and efficiency in algorithm design. It uses multiple inheritance and template programming to decompose algorithms into…

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Sparse linear regression is a central problem in high-dimensional statistics. We study the correlated random design setting, where the covariates are drawn from a multivariate Gaussian $N(0,\Sigma)$, and we seek an estimator with small…

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We present CheSS, the "Chebyshev Sparse Solvers" library, which has been designed to solve typical problems arising in large-scale electronic structure calculations using localized basis sets. The library is based on a flexible and…

Sparse coding--that is, modelling data vectors as sparse linear combinations of basis elements--is widely used in machine learning, neuroscience, signal processing, and statistics. This paper focuses on the large-scale matrix factorization…

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Thompson Sampling (TS) from Gaussian Process (GP) models is a powerful tool for the optimization of black-box functions. Although TS enjoys strong theoretical guarantees and convincing empirical performance, it incurs a large computational…

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This paper studies the copositive optimization problem whose objective is a sparse polynomial, with linear constraints over the nonnegative orthant. We propose sparse Moment-SOS relaxations to solve it. Necessary and sufficient conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Suhan Zhong , Jinling Zhou , Jiawang Nie , Xindong Tang

Applying iterative solvers on sparsity-constrained optimization (SCO) requires tedious mathematical deduction and careful programming/debugging that hinders these solvers' broad impact. In the paper, the library skscope is introduced to…

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