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We consider the NP-hard problem of minimizing a separable concave quadratic function over the integral points in a polyhedron, and we denote by D the largest absolute value of the subdeterminants of the constraint matrix. In this paper we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Alberto Del Pia

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) can be solved in polynomial time by interior point methods, but scalability can be an issue. To address this shortcoming, over a decade ago, Burer and Monteiro proposed to solve SDPs with few equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Nicolas Boumal , Vladislav Voroninski , Afonso S. Bandeira

Verifying that input-output relationships of a neural network conform to prescribed operational specifications is a key enabler towards deploying these networks in safety-critical applications. Semidefinite programming (SDP)-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Robin Brown , Edward Schmerling , Navid Azizan , Marco Pavone

The minimum sum-of-squares clustering (MSSC), or k-means type clustering, has been recently extended to exploit prior knowledge on the cardinality of each cluster. Such knowledge is used to increase performance as well as solution quality.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

This paper considers the problem of minimizing the ordered weighted average (or ordered median) function of finitely many rational functions over compact semi-algebraic sets. Ordered weighted averages of rational functions are not, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-30 V. Blanco , S. El-Haj Ben-Ali , J. Puerto

We consider the problem of estimating the locations of a set of points in a k-dimensional euclidean space given a subset of the pairwise distance measurements between the points. We focus on the case when some fraction of these measurements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Venkatesan Ekambaram , Giulia Fanti , Kannan Ramchandran

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are a framework for exact or approximate optimization that have widespread application in quantum information theory. We introduce a new method for using reductions to construct integrality gaps for SDPs. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Aram W. Harrow , Anand Natarajan , Xiaodi Wu

Tenfold improvements in computation speed can be brought to the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for Semidefinite Programming with virtually no decrease in robustness and provable convergence simply by projecting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Nikitas Rontsis , Paul J. Goulart , Yuji Nakatsukasa

Quadratic programming is a ubiquitous prototype in convex programming. Many machine learning problems can be formulated as quadratic programming, including the famous Support Vector Machines (SVMs). Linear and kernel SVMs have been among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Yuzhou Gu , Zhao Song , Lichen Zhang

We consider semidefinite programs (SDPs) with equality constraints. The variable to be optimized is a positive semidefinite matrix $X$ of size $n$. Following the Burer--Monteiro approach, we optimize a factor $Y$ of size $n \times p$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Nicolas Boumal , Vladislav Voroninski , Afonso S. Bandeira

Semidefinite programming is an important optimization task, often used in time-sensitive applications. Though they are solvable in polynomial time, in practice they can be too slow to be used in online, i.e. real-time applications. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Tamás Kriváchy , Yu Cai , Joseph Bowles , Daniel Cavalcanti , Nicolas Brunner

Neural network-based solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) have attracted considerable attention, yet they often face challenges in accuracy and computational efficiency. In this work, we focus on time-dependent PDEs and observe…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Guihong Wang , Zheng-An Chen , Tao Luo

In this paper, we explore the application of semidefinite programming to the realm of quantum codes, specifically focusing on codeword stabilized (CWS) codes with entanglement assistance. Notably, we utilize the isotropic subgroup of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Ching-Yi Lai , Pin-Chieh Tseng , Wei-Hsuan Yu

Cutwidth of a digraph is a width measure introduced by Chudnovsky, Fradkin, and Seymour [4] in connection with development of a structural theory for tournaments, or more generally, for semi-complete digraphs. In this paper we provide an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Fedor V. Fomin , Michał Pilipczuk

Recent interest on permutation rank modulation shows the Kendall tau metric as an important distance metric. This note documents our first efforts to obtain upper bounds on optimal code sizes (for said metric) ala Delsarte's approach. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Fabian Lim , Manabu Hagiwara

Given labeled points in a high-dimensional vector space, we seek a low-dimensional subspace such that projecting onto this subspace maintains some prescribed distance between points of differing labels. Intended applications include…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Culver McWhirter , Dustin G. Mixon , Soledad Villar

We study how to solve semidefinite programming relaxations for large scale polynomial optimization. When interior-point methods are used, typically only small or moderately large problems could be solved. This paper studies regularization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Jiawang Nie , Li Wang

In the quadratic minimum spanning tree problem (QMSTP) one wants to find the minimizer of a quadratic function over all possible spanning trees of a graph. We present a formulation of the QMSTP as a mixed-integer semidefinite program…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Frank de Meijer , Melanie Siebenhofer , Renata Sotirov , Angelika Wiegele

Sphere packing, Hilbert's eighteenth problem, asks for the densest arrangement of congruent spheres in n-dimensional Euclidean space. Although relevant to areas such as cryptography, crystallography, and medical imaging, the problem remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Rasul Tutunov , Alexandre Maraval , Antoine Grosnit , Xihan Li , Jun Wang , Haitham Bou-Ammar

This work proposes \textsc{H-Td}, a practical linear-time algorithm for computing an optimal-width tree decomposition of Halin graphs. Unlike state-of-the-art methods based on reduction rules or separators, \textsc{H-Td} exploits the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-04 J. A. Alejandro-Soto , Joel Antonio Trejo-Sanchez , Carlos Segura