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In this paper, by improving the variable-splitting approach, we propose a new semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation for the nonconvex quadratic optimization problem over the $\ell_1$ unit ball (QPL1). It dominates the state-of-the-art…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Yong Xia , Yu-Jun Gong , Sheng-Nan Han

We consider the NP-hard problem of minimizing a convex quadratic function over the integer lattice ${\bf Z}^n$. We present a simple semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation for obtaining a nontrivial lower bound on the optimal value of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Jaehyun Park , Stephen Boyd

We introduce a new class of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for sparse box-constrained quadratic programs, obtained by a novel integration of the Reformulation Linearization Technique into standard SDP relaxations while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Aida Khajavirad

Motivated by applications in wireless communications, this paper develops semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation techniques for some mixed binary quadratically constrained quadratic programs (MBQCQP) and analyzes their approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Zi Xu , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

For verifying the safety of neural networks (NNs), Fazlyab et al. (2019) introduced a semidefinite programming (SDP) approach called DeepSDP. This formulation can be viewed as the dual of the SDP relaxation for a problem formulated as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Godai Azuma , Sunyoung Kim , Makoto Yamashita

We propose a necessary and sufficient test to determine whether a solution for a general quadratic program with two quadratic constraints (QC2QP) can be computed from that of a specific convex semidefinite relaxation, in which case we say…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Sheng Cheng , Nuno C. Martins

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a general homogeneous quadratic function, subject to three real or four complex homogeneous quadratic inequality or equality constraints. For this problem, we present a sufficient and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Wenbao Ai , Wei Liang , Jianhua Yuan

It has recently been shown (Burer, Math. Program Ser. A 120:479-495, 2009) that a large class of NP-hard nonconvex quadratic programming problems can be modeled as so called completely positive programming problems, which are convex but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-26 Chuan-Hao Guo , Yan-Qin Bai , Li-Ping Tang

In this paper, we propose some new semidefinite relaxations for a class of nonconvex complex quadratic programming problems, which widely appear in the areas of signal processing and power system. By deriving new valid constraints to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Yingzhe Xu , Cheng Lu , Zhibin Deng , Ya-Feng Liu

We study the quadratic $k$-vertex-disjoint paths problem (Q-$k$-VDP), which seeks $k$ vertex-disjoint paths in a directed graph that minimize a nonconvex quadratic objective function. We formulate the problem as a binary quadratic program…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Mingming Xu , Hao Hu

An optimization problem considering AC power flow constraints and integer decision variables can usually be posed as a mixed-integer quadratically constrained quadratic program (MIQCQP) problem. In this paper, first, a set of valid linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-18 Qifeng Li

In this paper, we concentrate on a particular category of quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP): nonconvex QCQP with one equality constraint. This type of QCQP problem optimizes a quadratic objective under a fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Licheng Zhao , Rui Zhou , Wenqiang Pu

We study semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for the NP-hard problem of globally optimizing a quadratic function over the Stiefel manifold. We introduce a strengthened relaxation based on two recent ideas in the literature: (i) a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Samuel Burer , Kyungchan Park

This paper studies robust solutions and semidefinite linear programming (SDP) relaxations of a class of convex polynomial programs in the face of data uncertainty. The class of convex programs, called robust SOS-convex programs, includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-05 V. Jeyakumar , G. Li , J. Vicente-Perez

The problem of minimizing a (nonconvex) quadratic form over the unit simplex, referred to as a standard quadratic program, admits an exact convex conic formulation over the computationally intractable cone of completely positive matrices.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Y. Gorkem Gokmen , E. Alper Yildirim

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an important discrete optimization instance that encompasses many well-known combinatorial optimization problems, and has applications in a wide range of areas such as logistics and computer vision.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Junyu Chen , Yong Sheng Soh

We study the maximization of sums of heterogeneous quadratic forms over the Stiefel manifold, a nonconvex problem that arises in several modern signal processing and machine learning applications such as heteroscedastic probabilistic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Kyle Gilman , Sam Burer , Laura Balzano

We consider a parametric convex quadratic programming, CQP, relaxation for the quadratic knapsack problem, QKP. This relaxation maintains partial quadratic information from the original QKP by perturbing the objective function to obtain a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Marcia Fampa , Daniela Cristina Lubke , Fei Wang , Henry Wolkowicz

In this paper, we consider a bilevel polynomial optimization problem where the objective and the constraint functions of both the upper and the lower level problems are polynomials. We present methods for finding its global minimizers and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-14 V. Jeyakumar , J. B. Lasserre , G. Li , T. S. Pham

The matching problem between two adjacency matrices can be formulated as the NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP). Previous work on semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations to the QAP have produced solutions that are often tight in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Jose F. S. Bravo Ferreira , Yuehaw Khoo , Amit Singer