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Globally optimizing a nonconvex quadratic over the intersection of $m$ balls in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is known to be polynomial-time solvable for fixed $m$. Moreover, when $m=1$, the standard semidefinite relaxation is exact. When $m=2$, it has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Samuel Burer

Polynomial optimization problems over binary variables can be expressed as integer programs using a linearization with extra monomials in addition to those arising in the given polynomial. We characterize when such a linearization yields an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Christopher Hojny , Marc E. Pfetsch , Matthias Walter

The paper investigates the problem of performing correlation analysis when the number of observations is very large. In such a case, it is often necessary to combine the random observations to achieve dimensionality reduction of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Pavel Loskot

A polynomial that is nonnegative need not be a sum of squares of polynomials. This classical gap, identified by Hilbert in 1888, lies at the heart of why the global optimization of multivariate quartic polynomials is NP-hard. Yet we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Wenqi Zhu , Coralia Cartis

In a common formulation of semi-infinite programs, the infinite constraint set is a requirement that a function parametrized by the decision variables is nonnegative over an interval. If this function is sufficiently closely approximable by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Dávid Papp

In this short paper, we give an upper bound for the number of different basic feasible solutions generated by the simplex method for linear programming problems having optimal solutions. The bound is polynomial of the number of constraints,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Tomonari Kitahara , Shinji Mizuno

Using standard tools of harmonic analysis, we state and solve the problem of moments for non-negative measures supported on the unit ball of a Sobolev space of multivariate periodic trigonometric functions. We describe outer and inner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Didier Henrion , Alessandro Rudi

In this paper we derive a moment relaxation for large-scale nonsmooth optimization problems with graphical structure and spherical constraints. In contrast to classical moment relaxations for global polynomial optimization that suffer from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Robin Kenis , Emanuel Laude , Panagiotis Patrinos

The Macaulay2 package SumsOfSquares decomposes polynomials as sums of squares. It is based on methods to rationalize sum-of-squares decompositions due to Parrilo and Peyrl. The package features a data type for sums-of-squares polynomials,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Diego Cifuentes , Thomas Kahle , Pablo A. Parrilo

A polynomial matrix inequality is a formula asserting that a polynomial matrix is positive semidefinite. Polynomial matrix optimization concerns minimizing the smallest eigenvalue of a symmetric polynomial matrix subject to a tuple of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Jared Miller , Jie Wang , Feng Guo

We consider minimization of functions that are compositions of convex or prox-regular functions (possibly extended-valued) with smooth vector functions. A wide variety of important optimization problems fall into this framework. We describe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 A. S. Lewis , S. J. Wright

We propose a computationally tractable method for the identification of stable canonical discrete-time rational transfer function models, using frequency domain data. The problem is formulated as a global non-convex optimization problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Mohamed Abdalmoaty , Jared Miller , Mingzhou Yin , Roy S. Smith

We prove decomposition theorems for sparse positive (semi)definite polynomial matrices that can be viewed as sparsity-exploiting versions of the Hilbert--Artin, Reznick, Putinar, and Putinar--Vasilescu Positivstellens\"atze. First, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi

This paper studies the complexity of matrix Putinar's Positivstellens{\"a}tz on the semialgebraic set that is given by the polynomial matrix inequality. \rev{When the quadratic module generated by the constrained polynomial matrix is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Lei Huang

We utilize the same technique as in [arXiv:2205.04254 (2022)] to provide some representations of polynomials non-negative on a basic semi-algebraic set, defined by polynomial inequalities, under more general conditions. Based on each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai

We develop several notions of multiplicity for linear factors of multivariable polynomials over different arithmetics (hyperfields). The key example is multiplicities over the hyperfield of signs, which encapsulates the arithmetic of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Andreas Gross , Trevor Gunn

This paper presents a canonical dual approach for solving a nonconvex global optimization problem governed by a sum of fourth-order polynomial and a log-sum-exp function. Such a problem arises extensively in engineering and sciences. Based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Yi Chen , David Y Gao

In recent years, copositive programming has received significant attention for its ability to model hard problems in both discrete and continuous optimization. Several relaxations of copositive programs based on semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Marilena Palomba , Lucas Slot , Luis Felipe Vargas , Monaldo Mastrolilli

The classical Moment-Sum Of Squares hierarchy allows to approximate a global minimum of a polynomial optimization problem through semidefinite relaxations of increasing size. However, for many optimization instances, solving higher order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Srećko Ðurašinović , Perla Azzi , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron , Olga Mula , Jun Zhao

The paper concerns the uniform polynomial approximation of a function $f$, continuous on the unit Euclidean sphere of ${\mathbb R}^3$ and known only at a finite number of points that are somehow uniformly distributed on the sphere. First we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Woula Themistoclakis , Marc Van Barel