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Sums-of-squares (SOS) optimization is a promising tool to synthesize certifiable controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems. Building upon prior works, we demonstrate that SOS can synthesize dynamic controllers with bounded suboptimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Lujie Yang , Hongkai Dai , Alexandre Amice , Russ Tedrake

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

We study how to construct compressed datasets that suffice to recover optimal decisions in linear programs with an unknown cost vector $c$ lying in a prior set $\mathcal{C}$. Recent work by Bennouna et al. provides an exact geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Yuhan Ye , Saurabh Amin , Asuman Ozdaglar

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

This paper presents a new Matlab toolbox, aimed at facilitating the use of polynomial optimization for stability analysis of nonlinear systems. In the past decade several decisive contributions made it possible to recast this type of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Stéphane Drobot , Matteo Tacchi , Carmen Cardozo , Colin N. Jones

Self-organizing maps (SOMs) are a technique that has been used with high-dimensional data vectors to develop an archetypal set of states (nodes) that span, in some sense, the high-dimensional space. Noteworthy applications include weather…

Applications · Statistics 2009-01-23 Huiyan Sang , Alan E. Gelfand , Chris Lennard , Gabriele Hegerl , Bruce Hewitson

We consider certificates of positivity for univariate polynomials with rational coefficients that are positive over (an interval of)~$\mathbb{R}$. Such certificates take the form of weighted sums of squares (SOS) of polynomials with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Matías Bender , Philipp Di Dio , Elias Tsigaridas

Finding the solutions to a system of multivariate polynomial equations is a fundamental problem in mathematics and computer science. It involves evaluating the polynomials at many points, often chosen from a grid. In most current methods,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Guillaume Moroz

We exhibit a convex polynomial optimization problem for which the diagonally-dominant sum-of-squares (DSOS) and the scaled diagonally-dominant sum-of-squares (SDSOS) hierarchies, based on linear programming and second-order conic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Cédric Josz

This paper discusses how to find the global minimum of functions that are summations of small polynomials (``small'' means involving a small number of variables). Some sparse sum of squares (SOS) techniques are proposed. We compare their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Jiawang Nie , James Demmel

We construct efficient data structures that are resilient against a constant fraction of adversarial noise. Our model requires that the decoder answers most queries correctly with high probability and for the remaining queries, the decoder…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-27 Victor Chen , Elena Grigorescu , Ronald de Wolf

Gr{\"o}bner bases is one the most powerful tools in algorithmic non-linear algebra. Their computation is an intrinsically hard problem with a complexity at least single exponential in the number of variables. However, in most of the cases,…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Matías Bender , Jean-Charles Faugère , Elias Tsigaridas

We present a hierarchy of semidefinite programs (SDPs) for the problem of fitting a shape-constrained (multivariate) polynomial to noisy evaluations of an unknown shape-constrained function. These shape constraints include convexity or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Mihaela Curmei , Georgina Hall

This work presents a robust, energy-based deep learning framework for solving transmission problems in heterogeneous media, including cases with discontinuous material scenarios. We introduce a weighted First-Order System Least-Squares…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Alejandro Duque , Paulina Sepúlveda , Carlos Uriarte , Jamie M. Taylor , David Pardo

The Sum-of-Squares (SoS) hierarchy of semidefinite programs is a powerful algorithmic paradigm which captures state-of-the-art algorithmic guarantees for a wide array of problems. In the average case setting, SoS lower bounds provide strong…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Chris Jones , Aaron Potechin , Goutham Rajendran , Madhur Tulsiani , Jeff Xu

Localizing more sources than sensors with a sparse linear array (SLA) has long relied on minimizing a distance between two covariance matrices and recent algorithms often utilize semidefinite programming (SDP). Although deep neural network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Kuan-Lin Chen , Bhaskar D. Rao

Sum-of-squares (SOS) optimization provides a computationally tractable framework for certifying polynomial nonnegativity. If the considered problem is convex, the SOS problem can be transcribed into and solved by semi-definite programs.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jan Olucak , Torbjørn Cunis

The ability of having a sparse representation for a certain class of signals has many applications in data analysis, image processing, and other research fields. Among sparse representations, the cosparse analysis model has recently gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Matthias Seibert , Julian Wörmann , Rémi Gribonval , Martin Kleinsteuber

We introduce sparse polynomial zonotopes, a new set representation for formal verification of hybrid systems. Sparse polynomial zonotopes can represent non-convex sets and are generalizations of zonotopes, polytopes, and Taylor models.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff

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