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Nonconvex optimization problems with an L1-constraint are ubiquitous, and are found in many application domains including: optimal control of hybrid systems, machine learning and statistics, and operations research. This paper shows that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Yonatan Mintz , Anil Aswani

The moment sum of squares (moment-SOS) hierarchy produces sequences of upper and lower bounds on functionals of the exit time solution of a polynomial stochastic differential equation with polynomial constraints, at the price of solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Didier Henrion , Mauricio Junca , Mauricio Velasco

We present an efficient framework for solving algebraically-constrained global non-convex polynomial optimization problems over subsets of the hypercube. We prove the existence of an equivalent nonlinear reformulation of such problems that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Mitchell Tong Harris , Pierre-David Letourneau , Dalton Jones , M. Harper Langston

The Moment/Sum-of-squares hierarchy provides a way to compute the global minimizers of polynomial optimization problems (POP), at the cost of solving a sequence of increasingly large semidefinite programs (SDPs). We consider large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Johannes Aspman , Gilles Bareilles , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jakub Marecek , Martin Takáč

In this paper, we address the problem of reconstruction of support of a measure from its moments. More precisely, given a finite subset of the moments of a measure, we develop a semidefinite program for approximating the support of measure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Ashkan Jasour , Constantino Lagoa

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 consider optimization problems with polynomial inequality constraints in non-commuting variables. These non-commuting variables are viewed as bounded operators on a Hilbert space whose dimension is not fixed and the associated polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-18 Stefano Pironio , Miguel Navascues , Antonio Acin

We consider the problem of approximating numerically the moments and the supports of measures which are invariant with respect to the dynamics of continuous- and discrete-time polynomial systems, under semialgebraic set constraints. First,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Victor Magron , Marcelo Forets , Didier Henrion

The behaviour of the moment-sums-of-squares (moment-SOS) hierarchy for polynomial optimal control problems on compact sets has been explored to a large extent. Our contribution focuses on the case of non-compact control sets. We describe a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Karolına Sehnalová , Didier Henrion , Milan Korda , Martin Kružík

Let A be a finite subset of N^n and R[x]_A be the space of real polynomials whose monomial powers are from A. Let K be a compact basic semialgebraic set of R^n such that R[x]_A contains a polynomial that is positive on K. Denote by P_A(K)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-18 Jiawang Nie

A nonlinear fourth-order parabolic equation in one space dimension with periodic boundary conditions is studied. This equation arises in the context of fluctuations of a stationary nonequilibrium interface and in the modeling of quantum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Dolbeault , I. Gentil , A. Jungel

We give a new proof of Aubin's improvement of the Sobolev inequality on $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ under the vanishing of first order moments of the area element and generalize it to higher order moments case. By careful study of an extremal problem…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Fengbo Hang , Xiaodong Wang

We consider the problem of approximating the reachable set of a discrete-time polynomial system from a semialgebraic set of initial conditions under general semialgebraic set constraints. Assuming inclusion in a given simple set like a box…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Victor Magron , Pierre-Loic Garoche , Didier Henrion , Xavier Thirioux

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

Polynomial optimization problems represent a wide class of optimization problems, with a large number of real-world applications. Current approaches for polynomial optimization, such as the sum of squares (SOS) method, rely on large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Dick den Hertog , Thodoris Koukouvinos

Recently a moment-sum-of-squares hierarchy for exit location estimation of stochastic processes has been presented. When restricting to the special case of the unit ball, we show that the solutions approach the optimal value by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Corbinian Schlosser , Matteo Tacchi

We consider the linear conic optimization problem with the cone of nonnegative polynomials. Its dual optimization problem is the generalized moment problem. Moment-SOS relaxations are powerful for solving them. This paper studies finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Lei Huang , Jiawang Nie , Ya-Xiang Yuan

This paper investigates solution strategies for nonlinear problems in Hilbert spaces, such as nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in Sobolev spaces, when only finite measurements are available. We formulate this as a nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Daozhe Lin , Qiang Du

We study one-dimensional linear hyperbolic systems with $L^{\infty}$-coefficients subjected to periodic conditions in time and reflection boundary conditions in space. We derive a priori estimates and give an operator representation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Irina Kmit

In this paper, we generalize the chance optimization problems and introduce constrained volume optimization where enables us to obtain convex formulation for challenging problems in systems and control. We show that many different problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Ashkan Jasour , Constantino Lagoa