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We introduce an innovative numerical technique based on convex optimization to solve a range of infinite dimensional variational problems arising from the application of the background method to fluid flows. In contrast to most existing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-13 G. Fantuzzi , A. Wynn

Seeking tighter relaxations of combinatorial optimization problems, semidefinite programming is a generalization of linear programming that offers better bounds and is still polynomially solvable. Yet, in practice, a semidefinite program is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Daniel Porumbel

In this work, we propose a new local optimization method to solve a class of nonconvex semidefinite programming (SDP) problems. The basic idea is to approximate the feasible set of the nonconvex SDP problem by inner positive semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-27 Quoc Tran Dinh , Wim Michiels , Moritz Diehl

In this paper, we present a stabilized sequential quadratic semidefinite programming (SQSDP) method for nonlinear semidefinite programming (NSDP) problems and prove its local convergence. The stabilized SQSDP method is originally developed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Yuya Yamakawa

A broad class of convex optimization problems can be formulated as a semidefinite program (SDP), minimization of a convex function over the positive-semidefinite cone subject to some affine constraints. The majority of classical SDP solvers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Francesco Locatello , Alp Yurtsever , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

A key aspect in quantum information is to understand the advantage offered by quantum systems over classical ones in communication tasks. In recent years, a fundamental approach to this problem has been developed, focusing on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Jonatan Bohr Brask , Nicolas Brunner , Jef Pauwels , Davide Rusca , Armin Tavakoli

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 conditions under which the standard semidefinite program (SDP) relaxation of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Alex L. Wang , Fatma Kilinc-Karzan

We propose a novel methodology for solving a two-stage adjustable robust convex optimisation problem with a general (proximable) convex objective function and constraints defined by sum-of-squares (SOS) convex polynomials. These problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Neil D. Dizon , Bethany I. Caldwell , Vaithilingam Jeyakumar , Guoyin Li

Following the first paper on quantum algorithms for SDP-solving by Brand\~ao and Svore in 2016, rapid developments has been made on quantum optimization algorithms. Recently Brand\~ao et al. improved the quantum SDP-solver in the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 Joran van Apeldoorn , András Gilyén

Generalizing earlier work characterizing the quantum query complexity of computing a function of an unknown classical ``black box'' function drawn from some set of such black box functions, we investigate a more general quantum query model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard N. Barnum

We present a class of numerical algorithms which adapt a quantum error correction scheme to a channel model. Given an encoding and a channel model, it was previously shown that the quantum operation that maximizes the average entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew S. Fletcher , Peter W. Shor , Moe Z. Win

Quantum optimization has emerged as a promising frontier of quantum computing, providing novel numerical approaches to mathematical optimization problems. The main goal of this paper is to facilitate interdisciplinary research between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Alexey Bochkarev , Raoul Heese , Sven Jäger , Philine Schiewe , Anita Schöbel

In a recent paper ([1]=quant-ph/0606035) it is shown how the optimal recovery operation in an error correction scheme can be considered as a semidefinite program. As a possible future improvement it is noted that still better error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Reimpell , R. F. Werner , K. Audenaert

In quantum information processing it may be possible to have efficient computation and secure communication beyond the limitations of classical systems. In a fundamental point of view, however, evolution of quantum systems by the laws of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Joonwoo Bae

Sequential Convex Programming (SCP) has recently gained significant popularity as an effective method for solving optimal control problems and has been successfully applied in several different domains. However, the theoretical analysis of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Riccardo Bonalli , Thomas Lew , Marco Pavone

We present experimental work on a primal-dual framework simultaneously approximating maximum cut and weighted fractional cut-covering instances. In this primal-dual framework, we solve a semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation to either…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Nathan Benedetto Proença , Marcel K. de Carli Silva , Cristiane M. Sato , Levent Tunçel

We consider optimization problems containing nonconvex quadratic functions for which semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations often yield strong bounds. We investigate linear inequalities that outer approximate the positive semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Oktay Günlük , Paul Jünger , Jeff Linderoth , Andrea Lodi , James Luedtke

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

Positive maps that are not decomposable are a key resource in entanglement theory because they can detect bound entangled states, yet systematic methods for constructing them remain limited. We introduce an optimization framework based on…

We present a technique for reducing the computational requirements by several orders of magnitude in the evaluation of semidefinite relaxations for bounding the set of quantum correlations arising from finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Armin Tavakoli , Denis Rosset , Marc-Olivier Renou