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In polynomial optimization problems, nonnegativity constraints are typically handled using the sum of squares condition. This can be efficiently enforced using semidefinite programming formulations, or as more recently proposed by Papp and…

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We consider the problem of finding the global optimum of a real-valued complex polynomial on a compact set defined by real-valued complex polynomial inequalities. It reduces to solving a sequence of complex semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Cédric Josz , Daniel K. Molzahn

This work studies the problem of maximizing a higher degree real homogeneous multivariate polynomial over the unit sphere. This problem is equivalent to finding the leading eigenvalue of the associated symmetric tensor of higher order,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Yuning Yang , Guoyin Li

We present a novel efficient theoretical and numerical framework for solving global non-convex polynomial optimization problems. We analytically demonstrate that such problems can be efficiently reformulated using a non-linear objective…

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We consider min-max optimization problems for polynomial functions, where a multivariate polynomial is maximized with respect to a subset of variables, and the resulting maximal value is minimized with respect to the remaining variables.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Francis Bach

We present a general approach to rounding semidefinite programming relaxations obtained by the Sum-of-Squares method (Lasserre hierarchy). Our approach is based on using the connection between these relaxations and the Sum-of-Squares proof…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Boaz Barak , Jonathan Kelner , David Steurer

The regular polyhedra have the highest order of 3D symmetries and are exceptionally at- tractive templates for (self)-assembly using minimal types of building blocks, from nano-cages and virus capsids to large scale constructions like glass…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Muhibur Rasheed , Chandrajit Bajaj

The purpose of this note is to survey a methodology to solve systems of polynomial equations and inequalities. The techniques we discuss use the algebra of multivariate polynomials with coefficients over a field to create large-scale linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Jesus A. De Loera , Peter N. Malkin , Pablo A. Parrilo

We propose a novel non-negative spherical relaxation for optimization problems over binary matrices with injectivity constraints, which in particular has applications in multi-matching and clustering. We relax respective binary matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-23 Johan Thunberg , Florian Bernard

We study quantum algorithms for approximating Lasserre's hierarchy values for polynomial optimization. Let $f,g_1,\ldots,g_m$ be real polynomials in $n$ variables and $f^\star$ the infimum of $f$ over the semialgebraic set $S(g)=\{x:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Daniel Stilck França , Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai

Inspired by regularization techniques in statistics and machine learning, we study complementary composite minimization in the stochastic setting. This problem corresponds to the minimization of the sum of a (weakly) smooth function endowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Cristóbal Guzmán , Clément Lezane

In this article, we provide a new algorithm for solving constraint satisfaction problems over templates with few subpowers, by reducing the problem to the combination of solvability of a polynomial number of systems of linear equations over…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Dejan Delic , Amir El-Aooiti

This paper is an attempt to remedy the problem of slow convergence for first-order numerical algorithms by proposing an adaptive conditioning heuristic. First, we propose a parallelizable numerical algorithm that is capable of solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Muhammad Adil , Sasan Tavakkol , Ramtin Madani

The motivation of this work stems from the numerical approximation of bounded functions by polynomials satisfying the same bounds. The present contribution makes use of the recent algebraic characterization found in [B. Despr\'es, Numer.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Martin Campos Pinto , Frédérique Charles , Bruno Després , Maxime Herda

The decomposition of the polynomials on the quaternionic unit sphere in $\Hd$ into irreducible modules under the action of the quaternionic unitary (symplectic) group and quaternionic scalar multiplication has been studied by several…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Mozhgan Mohammadpour , Shayne Waldron

We give a review of modern approaches to constructing formal solutions to integrable hierarchies of mathematical physics, whose coefficients are answers to various enumerative problems. The relationship between these approaches and…

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Witsenhausen's problem asks for the maximum fraction $\alpha_n$ of the $n$-dimensional unit sphere that can be covered by a measurable set containing no pairs of orthogonal points. The best upper bounds for $\alpha_n$ are given by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Bram Bekker , Olga Kuryatnikova , Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho , Juan C. Vera

This paper introduces an efficient algorithm for computing the best approximation of a given matrix onto the intersection of linear equalities, inequalities and the doubly nonnegative cone (the cone of all positive semidefinite matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Ying Cui , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

We introduce a new Partition of Unity Method for the numerical homogenization of elliptic partial differential equations with arbitrarily rough coefficients. We do not restrict to a particular ansatz space or the existence of a finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Daniel Peterseim , Patrick Henning , Philipp Morgenstern

We consider the sum-of-squares hierarchy of approximations for the problem of minimizing a polynomial $f$ over the boolean hypercube $\mathbb{B}^{n}=\{0,1\}^n$. This hierarchy provides for each integer $r \in \mathbb{N}$ a lower bound…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Lucas Slot , Monique Laurent