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Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) are a highly expressive class of nonconvex optimization problems. While QCQPs are NP-hard in general, they admit a natural convex relaxation via the standard (Shor) semidefinite program…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Alex L. Wang , Fatma Kilinc-Karzan

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

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular dimensionality reduction technique for obtaining principal components which are linear combinations of a small subset of the original features. Existing approaches cannot supply…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

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

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

We define quasiconvex programming, a form of generalized linear programming in which one seeks the point minimizing the pointwise maximum of a collection of quasiconvex functions. We survey algorithms for solving quasiconvex programs either…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Eppstein

The paper investigates the problem of fitting protein complexes into electron density maps. They are represented by high-resolution cryoEM density maps converted into overlapping matrices and partly show a structure of a complex. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Roman Pogodin , Alexander Katrutsa , Sergei Grudinin

In this paper, a class of optimization problems with nonlinear inequality constraints is discussed. Based on the ideas of sequential quadratic programming algorithm and the method of strongly sub-feasible directions, a new superlinearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-28 Jin-Bao Jian , Chuan-Hao Guo , Chun-Ming Tang , Yan-Qin Bai

We investigate the possibility of solving continuous non-convex optimization problems using a network of interacting quantum optical oscillators. We propose a native encoding of continuous variables in analog signals associated with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Farhad Khosravi , Ugur Yildiz , Artur Scherer , Pooya Ronagh

A common representation of a three dimensional object in computer applications, such as graphics and design, is in the form of a triangular mesh. In many instances, individual or groups of triangles in such representation need to satisfy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Valentin R. Koch , Hung M. Phan

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,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Shiying Dong , Zhipeng Shen , Rudolf Reiter , Hailong Huang , Bingzhao Gao , Hong Chen , Wen-Hua Chen

We consider a class of $\ell_0$-regularized linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems. This class of problems is obtained by augmenting a penalizing sparsity measure to the cost objective of the standard linear-quadratic regulator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-31 MirSaleh Bahavarnia

In this paper, we consider linear quadratic team problems with an arbitrary number of quadratic constraints in both stochastic and deterministic settings. The team consists of players with different measurements about the state of nature.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Ather Gattami

Recently, a lot of attention has been devoted to finding physically realisable operations that realise as closely as possible certain desired transformations between quantum states, e.g. quantum cloning, teleportation, quantum gates, etc.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 K. Audenaert , B. De Moor

Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs (QCQPs) are an important class of optimization problems with diverse real-world applications. In this work, we propose a variational quantum algorithm for general QCQPs. By encoding the variables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Hongyi Zhou , Sirui Peng , Qian Li , Xiaoming Sun

Motion planning in high-dimensional space is a challenging task. In order to perform dexterous manipulation in an unstructured environment, a robot with many degrees of freedom is usually necessary, which also complicates its motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Chao Liu , Mark Yim

Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) are a fundamental class of optimization problems. In a QCQP, we are asked to minimize a (possibly nonconvex) quadratic function subject to a number of (possibly nonconvex) quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Fatma Kılınç-Karzan , Alex L. Wang

Conic programs arise broadly in physics, quantum information, machine learning, and engineering, many of which are defined over sparse graphs. Although such problems can be solved in polynomial time using classical interior-point solvers,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Thinh Viet Le , Mark M. Wilde , Vassilis Kekatos

In this paper, we consider linear quadratic team problems with an arbitrary number of quadratic constraints in both stochastic and deterministic settings. The team consists of players with different measurements about the state of nature.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-13 Ather Gattami