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Many combinatorial optimisation problems can be modelled as valued constraint satisfaction problems. In this paper, we present a polynomial-time algorithm solving the valued constraint satisfaction problem for a fixed number of variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Manuel Bodirsky , Marcello Mamino , Caterina Viola

We formulate a class of nonlinear {evolution} partial differential equations (PDEs) as linear optimization problems on moments of positive measures supported on infinite-dimensional vector spaces. Using sums of squares (SOS) representations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Didier Henrion , Maria Infusino , Salma Kuhlmann , Victor Vinnikov

This paper studies the hierarchy of sparse matrix Moment-SOS relaxations for solving sparse polynomial optimization problems with matrix constraints. First, we prove a sufficient and necessary condition for the sparse hierarchy to be tight.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Jiawang Nie , Zheng Qu , Xindong Tang , Linghao Zhang

This paper studies how to solve semi-infinite polynomial programming (SIPP) problems by semidefinite relaxation method. We first introduce two SDP relaxation methods for solving polynomial optimization problems with finitely many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Li Wang , Feng Guo

Valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) are a large class of combinatorial optimisation problems. The computational complexity of VCSPs depends on the set of allowed cost functions in the input. Recently, the computational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Manuel Bodirsky , Marcello Mamino , Caterina Viola

Solving (Stampacchia) variational inequalities (SVIs) is a foundational problem at the heart of optimization. However, this expressivity comes at the cost of computational hardness. As a result, most research has focused on carving out…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Ioannis Anagnostides , Gabriele Farina , Tuomas Sandholm , Brian Hu Zhang

Given a compact parameter set $Y\subset R^p$, we consider polynomial optimization problems $(P_y$) on $R^n$ whose description depends on the parameter $y\inY$. We assume that one can compute all moments of some probability measure $\phi$ on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-18 Jean B. Lasserre

This paper aims to find efficient solutions to a multi-objective optimization problem (MP) with convex polynomial data. To this end, a hybrid method, which allows us to transform problem (MP) into a scalar convex polynomial optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Jae Hyoung Lee , Nithirat Sisarat , Liguo Jiao

In this paper, we study the local linear convergence behavior of proximal-gradient (PG) descent algorithm on a parameterized gap-function reformulation of a smooth but non-monotone variational inequality problem (VIP). The aim is to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Lei Zhao , Daoli Zhu , Shuzhong Zhang

In this paper, we present a branch and bound algorithm for extracting approximate solutions to Global Polynomial Optimization (GPO) problems with bounded feasible sets. The algorithm is based on a combination of SOS/Moment relaxations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Hesameddin Mohammadi , Matthew M. Peet

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by semilinear elliptic variational inequalities involving constraints on the state, and more precisely the obstacle problem. Since we adopt a numerical point of view, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 El Hassene Osmani , Mounir Haddou , Naceurdine Bensalem

The moment-sum-of-squares (moment-SOS) hierarchy is one of the most celebrated and widely applied methods for approximating the minimum of an n-variate polynomial over a feasible region defined by polynomial (in)equalities. A key feature of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Sander Gribling , Sven Polak , Lucas Slot

We study sum of squares (SOS) relaxations to optimize polynomial functions over a set $V\cap R^n$, where $V$ is a complex algebraic variety. We propose a new methodology that, rather than relying on some algebraic description, represents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Diego Cifuentes , Pablo A. Parrilo

This paper studies bilevel polynomial optimization in which lower-level constraint functions depend linearly on lower-level variables. We show that such bilevel program can be reformulated as a disjunctive program by using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jiawang Nie , Jane J. Ye , Suhan Zhong

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

We consider the mirror-prox algorithm for solving monotone Variational Inequality (VI) problems. As the mirror-prox algorithm is not practically implementable, except in special instances of VIs (such as affine VIs), we consider its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Abhishek Chakraborty , Angelia Nedić

This article proposes a bivariate polynomial problem for finite-order real matrices that endows a \textit{`sufficient condition'} for a map from the standard vector spaces of finite-order real matrices to the same dimensional bivariate…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Dharm Prakash Singh , Amit Ujlayan , Bhim Sen Choudhary

This chapter investigates how symmetries can be used to reduce the computational complexity in polynomial optimization problems. A focus will be specifically given on the Moment-SOS hierarchy in polynomial optimization, where results from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Philippe Moustrou , Cordian Riener , Hugues Verdure

This paper studies the saddle point problem of polynomials. We give an algorithm for computing saddle points. It is based on solving Lasserre's hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations. Under some genericity assumptions on defining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Jiawang Nie , Zi Yang , Guangming Zhou

We prove existence and uniqueness of solution of an evolutionary vector-valued variational inequality defined in the convex set of vector valued functions $\boldsymbol v$ subject to the constraint $|\boldsymbol v|\le1$. We show that we can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Davide Azevedo , Lisa Santos