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We consider optimal control problems for partial differential equations where the controls take binary values but vary over the time horizon, they can thus be seen as dynamic switches. The switching patterns may be subject to combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Christoph Buchheim , Alexandra Grütering , Christian Meyer

Quadratic programming (QP) is a fundamental optimization model with wide-ranging applications in decision-making and machine learning, yet efficiently solving large-scale instances remains a major computational challenge. Building upon the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Hongpei Li , Yicheng Huang , Huikang Liu , Dongdong Ge , Yinyu Ye

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

In this paper, we present new convex relaxations for nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems. While recent research has focused on strengthening convex relaxations using reformulation-linearization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Rujun Jiang , Duan Li

When computing bounds, spatial branch-and-bound algorithms often linearly outer approximate convex relaxations for non-convex expressions in order to capitalize on the efficiency and robustness of linear programming solvers. Considering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 William R. Strahl , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

The main contribution of this thesis is the development of a new algorithm for solving convex quadratic programs. It consists in combining the method of multipliers with an infeasible active-set method. Our approach is iterative. In each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Philipp Hungerländer

Triangulation of a three-dimensional point from at least two noisy 2-D images can be formulated as a quadratically constrained quadratic program. We propose an algorithm to extract candidate solutions to this problem from its semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-09 Chris Aholt , Sameer Agarwal , Rekha Thomas

The technique of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation can be used to obtain a nontrivial bound on the optimal value of a nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP). We explore concave quadratic inequalities that hold…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Jaehyun Park , Stephen Boyd

Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) are a fundamental class of optimization problems well-known to be NP-hard in general. In this paper we study sufficient conditions for a convex hull result that immediately implies that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Alex L. Wang , Fatma Kilinc-Karzan

A computationally efficient method to solve non-convex programming problems with linear equality constraints is presented. The proposed method is based on a recursively feasible and descending sequential convex programming procedure proven…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Josep Virgili-Llop , Marcello Romano

We develop a spatial branch-and-cut approach for nonconvex Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs with bounded complex variables (CQCQP). Linear valid inequalities are added at each node of the search tree to strengthen semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Chen Chen , Alper Atamturk , Shmuel S. Oren

This paper develops new semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation techniques for two classes of mixed binary quadratically constrained quadratic programs (MBQCQP) and analyzes their approximation performance. The first class of problem…

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

Quadratic assignment problems are a fundamental class of combinatorial optimization problems which are ubiquitous in applications, yet their exact resolution is NP-hard. To circumvent this impasse, it was proposed to regularize such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Venkatkrishna Karumanchi , Gabriel Rioux , Ziv Goldfeld

This paper is devoted to present an approximation of a Cauchy problem for Friedrichs' systems under convex constraints. It is proved the strong convergence in L^2\_{loc} of a parabolic-relaxed approximation towards the unique constrained…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Jean-François Babadjian , Clément Mifsud , Nicolas Seguin

We consider the global optimization of nonconvex mixed-integer quadratic programs with linear equality constraints. In particular, we present a new class of convex quadratic relaxations which are derived via quadratic cuts. To construct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Carlos J. Nohra , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis

For nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs), we first show that, under certain feasibility conditions, the standard semidefinite (SDP) relaxation is exact for QCQPs with bipartite graph structures. The exact optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Godai Azuma , Mituhiro Fukuda , Sunyoung Kim , Makoto Yamashita

Multicriterion optimization and Pareto optimality are fundamental tools in economics. In this paper we propose a new relaxation method for solving multiple objective quadratic programming problems. Exploiting the technique of the linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-21 Yan-Qin Bai , Chuan-Hao Guo

In this article, a globally convergent sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method is developed for multi-objective optimization problems with inequality type constraints. A feasible descent direction is obtained using a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary , Geetanjali Panda

The paper introduces the first formulation of convex Q-learning for Markov decision processes with function approximation. The algorithms and theory rest on a relaxation of a dual of Manne's celebrated linear programming characterization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Fan Lu , Sean Meyn

In this paper, we study some bounds for nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programs. We propose two types of bounds for quadratically constrained quadratic programs, quadratic and cubic bounds. For quadratic bounds, we use affine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Moslem Zamani