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We unconditionally prove that it is NP-hard to compute a constant multiplicative approximation to the QUANTUM MAX-CUT problem on an unweighted graph of constant bounded degree. The proof works in two stages: first we demonstrate a generic…

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Here we study the NP-complete $K$-SAT problem. Although the worst-case complexity of NP-complete problems is conjectured to be exponential, there exist parametrized random ensembles of problems where solutions can typically be found in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-11 Hendrik Schawe , Roman Bleim , Alexander K. Hartmann

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…

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The class PLS (Polynomial Local Search) captures the complexity of finding a solution that is locally optimal and has proven to be an important concept in the theory of local search. It has been shown that local search versions of various…

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We show that computing even very coarse approximations of critical points is intractable for simple classes of nonconvex functions. More concretely, we prove that if there exists a polynomial-time algorithm that takes as input a polynomial…

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We analyze the question of deciding whether a quadratic or a hyperbolic 0-1 programming instance has a unique optimal solution. Both uniqueness questions are known to be NP-hard, but are unlikely to be contained in the class NP. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-04 Vladimir G. Deineko , Bettina Klinz , Gerhard J. Woeginger

It is proved that, for an indefinite quadratic programming problem under linear constraints, any iterative sequence generated by the Proximal DC decomposition algorithm $R$-linearly converges to a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker point, provided that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Tran Hung Cuong , Yongdo Lim , Nguyen Dong Yen

A quadratically constrained quadratic programming problem is considered in a Hilbert space setting, where neither the objective nor the constraint are convex functions. Necessary and sufficient conditions are provided to guarantee that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Santiago Gonzalez Zerbo , Alejandra Maestripieri , Francisco Martínez Pería

In this paper, we consider the nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) with one quadratic constraint. By employing the conjugate gradient method, an efficient algorithm is proposed to solve QCQP that exploits the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Akram Taati , Maziar Salahi

In this paper, we consider the quadratic programming problems under finitely many convex quadratic constraints in Hilbert spaces. By using the Legendre property of quadratic forms or the compactness of operators in the presentations of…

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This paper explores two condensed-space interior-point methods to efficiently solve large-scale nonlinear programs on graphics processing units (GPUs). The interior-point method solves a sequence of symmetric indefinite linear systems, or…

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The paper introduces several new concepts for solving nonconvex or nonsmooth optimization problems, including convertible nonconvex function, exact convertible nonconvex function and differentiable convertible nonconvex function. It is…

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Let $C$ be a curve defined over a number field $K$. A point $P\in C(\overline{\mathbb{Q}})$ is called $K$-quadratic if $[K(P):K]=2$. Let $K$ be a number field such that the rank of the elliptic curves $E_1:\,y^2= x^3 + 4x$ and $E_2:\,y^2=…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Enrique González-Jiménez

Computing approximate Karush--Kuhn--Tucker (KKT) points for constrained nonconvex programs is a fundamental problem in mathematical programming. Interior-point trust-region (IPTR) methods are particularly attractive for such problems…

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Solving linear systems and quadratic programming (QP) problems are both ubiquitous tasks in the engineering and computing fields. Direct methods for solving systems, such as Cholesky, LU, and QR factorizations, exhibit data-independent time…

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Binary quadratic programming problems have attracted much attention in the last few decades due to their potential applications. This type of problems are NP-hard in general, and still considered a challenge in the design of efficient…

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Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) have a wide range of applications in signal processing and wireless communications. Non-convex QCQPs are NP-hard in general. Existing approaches relax the non-convexity using…

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