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We consider minimizing a conic quadratic objective over a polyhedron. Such problems arise in parametric value-at-risk minimization, portfolio optimization, and robust optimization with ellipsoidal objective uncertainty; and they can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Alper Atamturk , Andres Gomez

This paper begins with a class of convex quadratic programs (QPs) with bounded variables solvable by the parametric principal pivoting algorithm with $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ strongly polynomial complexity, where $n$ is the number of variables of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Jong-Shi Pang , Shaoning Han

Quadratic programming (QP) is a common and important constrained optimization problem. Here, we derive a surprising duality between constrained optimization with inequality constraints -- of which QP is a special case -- and consumer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Pankaj Mehta , Wenping Cui , Ching-Hao Wang , Robert Marsland

Random projection, a dimensionality reduction technique, has been found useful in recent years for reducing the size of optimization problems. In this paper, we explore the use of sparse sub-gaussian random projections to approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Monse Guedes-Ayala , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Lars Schewe , Akiko Takeda

In this paper, we study a class of fractional semi-infinite polynomial programming problems involving s.o.s-convex polynomial functions. For such a problem, by a conic reformulation proposed in our previous work and the quadratic modules…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Feng Guo , Meijun Zhang

Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

Mathematical programs with complementarity constraints are notoriously difficult to solve due to their nonconvexity and lack of constraint qualifications in every feasible point. This work focuses on the subclass of quadratic programs with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Jonas Hall , Armin Nurkanovic , Florian Messerer , Moritz Diehl

Statistical inference problems arising within signal processing, data mining, and machine learning naturally give rise to hard combinatorial optimization problems. These problems become intractable when the dimensionality of the data is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-27 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Topology optimization of frame structures under free-vibration eigenvalue constraints constitutes a challenging nonconvex polynomial optimization problem with disconnected feasible sets. In this article, we first formulate it as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Marek Tyburec , Michal Kočvara , Marouan Handa , Jan Zeman

This paper presents an algorithmic framework for the minimization of strictly convex quadratic functions. The framework is flexible and generic. At every iteration the search direction is a linear combination of the negative gradient, as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Liam MacDonald , Rua Murray , Rachael Tappenden

We derive computationally tractable formulations of the robust counterparts of convex quadratic and conic quadratic constraints that are concave in matrix-valued uncertain parameters. We do this for a broad range of uncertainty sets. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Ahmadreza Marandi , Aharon Ben-Tal , Dick den Hertog , Bertrand Melenberg

This paper examines the nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems using an iterative method. One of the existing approaches for solving nonconvex QCQP problems relaxes the rank one constraint on the unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Chuangchuang Sun , Ran Dai

A hierarchy of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations approximates the global optimum of polynomial optimization problems of noncommuting variables. Generating the relaxation, however, is a computationally demanding task, and only…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Peter Wittek

Convex relaxation methods are powerful tools for studying the lowest energy of many-body problems. By relaxing the representability conditions for marginals to a set of local constraints, along with a global semidefinite constraint, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Yi Wang , Rizheng Huang , Yuehaw Khoo

In this paper, we consider the quadratic programming problems under finitely many convex quadratic constraints in Hilbert spaces. By using the Legendre property of quadratic forms or the compactness of operators in the presentations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Vu Van Dong , Nguyen Nang Tam

Solving optimal control problems (OCPs) of autonomous agents operating under spatial and temporal constraints fast and accurately is essential in applications ranging from eco-driving of autonomous vehicles to quadrotor navigation. However,…

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A framework is proposed for solving general convex quadratic programs (CQPs) from an infeasible starting point by invoking an existing feasible-start algorithm tailored for inequality-constrained CQPs. The central tool is an exact penalty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-11 M. Paul Laiu , André L. Tits

This work is concerned with relaxation models arising from numerical schemes for hyperbolic-parabolic systems. Such models are a hyperbolic system with both the hyperbolic part and the stiff source term involving a small positive parameter,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Zhiting Ma , Weifeng Zhao

Recently, we proposed a class of inequalities called lifted bilinear cover inequalities, which are second-order cone representable convex inequalities, and are valid for a set described by a separable bilinear constraint together with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Xiaoyi Gu , Santanu S. Dey , Jean-Philippe P. Richard

This paper studies how to compute global minimizers of the cubic-quartic regularization (CQR) problem \[ \min_{s \in \mathbb{R}^n} \quad f_0+g^Ts+\frac{1}{2}s^THs+\frac{\beta}{6} \| s \|^3+\frac{\sigma}{4} \| s \|^4, \] where $f_0$ is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Jinling Zhou , Xin Liu , Jiawang Nie , Xindong Tang