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In this survey we consider polynomial optimization problems, asking to minimize a polynomial function over a compact semialgebraic set, defined by polynomial inequalities. This models a great variety of (in general, nonlinear nonconvex)…

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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

Sparse estimation methods are aimed at using or obtaining parsimonious representations of data or models. They were first dedicated to linear variable selection but numerous extensions have now emerged such as structured sparsity or kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Francis Bach , Rodolphe Jenatton , Julien Mairal , Guillaume Obozinski

In this paper we propose a convex Sum-of-Squares optimization problem for finding outer approximations of forward reachable sets for nonlinear uncertain Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE's) with either (or both) L2 or point-wise bounded…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Morgan Jones , Matthew M. Peet

We consider the Moment-SOS hierarchy in polynomial optimization. We first provide a sufficient condition to solve the truncated K-moment problem associated with a given degree-$2n$ pseudo-moment sequence $\phi$ n and a semi-algebraic set $K…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Jean B Lasserre

We focus on finding sparse and least-$\ell_1$-norm solutions for unconstrained nonlinear optimal control problems. Such optimization problems are non-convex and non-smooth, nevertheless recent versions of Newton method for under-determined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Boris Polyak , Andrey Tremba

We study convex optimization problems where disjoint blocks of variables are controlled by binary indicator variables that are also subject to conditions, e.g., cardinality. Several classes of important examples can be formulated in such a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Daniel Bienstock , Tongtong Chen

We introduce an S.o.S hierarchy of lower bounds for a polynomial optimization problem whose constraint is expressed as a matrix polynomial semidefinite inequality. Our approach involves utilizing a penalty function framework to directly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Hoang Anh Tran , Kim-Chuan Toh

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

Discrete optimization is a central problem in mathematical optimization with a broad range of applications, among which binary optimization and sparse optimization are two common ones. However, these problems are NP-hard and thus difficult…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Ganzhao Yuan , Li Shen , Wei-Shi Zheng

In this paper, we consider the problem of compressed sensing where the goal is to recover almost all the sparse vectors using a small number of fixed linear measurements. For this problem, we propose a novel partial hard-thresholding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Prateek Jain , Ambuj Tewari , Inderjit S. Dhillon

We show that any submodular minimization (SM) problem defined on a linear constraint set with constraints having up to two variables per inequality, are 2-approximable in polynomial time. If the constraints are monotone (the two variables…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Dorit S. Hochbaum

A wide range of problems in computational science and engineering require estimation of sparse eigenvectors for high dimensional systems. Here, we propose two variants of the Truncated Orthogonal Iteration to compute multiple leading…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Hexuan Liu , Aleksandr Aravkin

We describe a second-order accurate approach to sparsifying the off-diagonal blocks in the hierarchical approximate factorizations of sparse symmetric positive definite matrices. The norm of the error made by the new approach depends…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Bazyli Klockiewicz , Léopold Cambier , Ryan Humble , Hamdi Tchelepi , Eric Darve

In theory, hierarchies of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations based on sum of squares (SOS) polynomials have been shown to provide arbitrarily close approximations for a general polynomial optimization problem (POP). However, due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Xiaolong Kuang , Bissan Ghaddar , Joe Naoum-Sawaya , Luis F. Zuluaga

In this study, we consider the subset selection problems with submodular or monotone discrete objective functions under partition matroid constraints where the thresholds are dynamic. We focus on POMC, a simple Pareto optimization approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Anh Viet Do , Frank Neumann

The goal of Sparse Convex Optimization is to optimize a convex function $f$ under a sparsity constraint $s\leq s^*\gamma$, where $s^*$ is the target number of non-zero entries in a feasible solution (sparsity) and $\gamma\geq 1$ is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Kyriakos Axiotis , Maxim Sviridenko

This work presents a hybrid approach to solve the maximum stable set problem, using constraint and semidefinite programming. The approach consists of two steps: subproblem generation and subproblem solution. First we rank the variable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. J. van Hoeve

In this paper, we propose a Newton method for unconstrained set optimization problems to find its weakly minimal solutions with respect to lower set-less ordering. The objective function of the problem under consideration is given by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Debdas Ghosh , Anshika , Qamrul Hasan Ansari , Xiaopeng Zhao

We consider a linear inverse problem whose solution is expressed as a sum of two components: one smooth and the other sparse. This problem is addressed by minimizing an objective function with a least squares data-fidelity term and a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Adrian Jarret , Valérie Costa , Julien Fageot