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There is an increasing interest in quantum algorithms for optimization problems. Within convex optimization, interior-point methods and other recently proposed quantum algorithms are non-trivial to implement on noisy quantum devices. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jakub Marecek , Albert Akhriev

We investigate the local linear convergence properties of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) when applied to Semidefinite Programming (SDP). A longstanding belief suggests that ADMM is only capable of solving SDPs to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Shucheng Kang , Xin Jiang , Heng Yang

When sum-of-squares (SOS) programs are recast as semidefinite programs (SDPs) using the standard monomial basis, the constraint matrices in the SDP possess a structural property that we call \emph{partial orthogonality}. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou

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

The sum-rank metric provides a unifying framework that generalizes both the celebrated Hamming and rank metrics, and has found applications in areas such as network coding, distributed storage, and space-time coding. A central problem is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Aida Abiad , Antonina P. Khramova , Sven C. Polak , Ferdinando Zullo

We present a novel, practical, and provable approach for solving diagonally constrained semi-definite programming (SDP) problems at scale using accelerated non-convex programming. Our algorithm non-trivially combines acceleration motions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Junhyung Lyle Kim , JA Lara Benitez , Mohammad Taha Toghani , Cameron Wolfe , Zhiwei Zhang , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Proximal methods such as the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) are effective at solving constrained quadratic programs (QPs). To tackle infeasible QPs, slack variables are often introduced to ensure feasibility, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Thomas Lew , Marcus Greiff , John Subosits , Brian Plancher

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are a fundamental class of optimization problems with important recent applications in approximation algorithms, quantum complexity, robust learning, algorithmic rounding, and adversarial deep learning. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Haotian Jiang , Tarun Kathuria , Yin Tat Lee , Swati Padmanabhan , Zhao Song

This paper presents optimal scaling of the alternating directions method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for a class of distributed quadratic programming problems. The scaling corresponds to the ADMM step-size and relaxation parameter, as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 André Teixeira , Euhanna Ghadimi , Iman Shames , Henrik Sandberg , Mikael Johansson

In quantum embedding theories, a quantum many-body system is divided into localized clusters of sites which are treated with an accurate `high-level' theory and glued together self-consistently by a less accurate `low-level' theory at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Yuehaw Khoo , Michael Lindsey

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are standard convex problems that are frequently found in control and optimization applications. Interior-point methods can solve SDPs in polynomial time up to arbitrary accuracy, but scale poorly as the size of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Jared Miller , Yang Zheng , Mario Sznaier , Antonis Papachristodoulou

We investigate exact semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for the problem of minimizing a nonconvex quadratic objective function over a feasible region defined by both finitely and infinitely many nonconvex quadratic inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Naohiko Arima , Sunyoung Kim , Masakazu Kojima

Memory-Bounded Dynamic Programming (MBDP) has proved extremely effective in solving decentralized POMDPs with large horizons. We generalize the algorithm and improve its scalability by reducing the complexity with respect to the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Sven Seuken , Shlomo Zilberstein

In 2020, Yamakawa and Okuno proposed a stabilized sequential quadratic semidefinite programming (SQSDP) method for solving, in particular, degenerate nonlinear semidefinite optimization problems. The algorithm is shown to converge globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Kosuke Okabe , Yuya Yamakawa , Ellen H. Fukuda

We introduce a new class of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for sparse box-constrained quadratic programs, obtained by a novel integration of the Reformulation Linearization Technique into standard SDP relaxations while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Aida Khajavirad

In this paper, we propose a new sequential quadratic semidefinite programming (SQSDP) method for solving degenerate nonlinear semidefinite programs (NSDPs), in which we produce iteration points by solving a sequence of stabilized quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Yuya Yamakawa , Takayuki Okuno

In this paper we develop an accelerated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for solving quadratic programs called superADMM. Unlike standard ADMM QP solvers, superADMM uses a novel dynamic weighting method that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 P. C. N. Verheijen , D. Goswami , M. Lazar

For general quadratically-constrained quadratic programming (QCQP), we propose a parabolic relaxation described with convex quadratic constraints. An interesting property of the parabolic relaxation is that the original non-convex feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Ramtin Madani , Mersedeh Ashraphijuo , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Alper Atamturk

This paper develops new semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation techniques for two classes of mixed binary quadratically constrained quadratic programs (MBQCQP) and analyzes their approximation performance. The first class of problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Zi Xu , Mingyi Hong

Quantum computers can solve semidefinite programs (SDPs) using resources that scale better than state-of-the-art classical methods as a function of the problem dimension. At the same time, the known quantum algorithms scale very unfavorably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Fabian Henze , Viet Tran , Birte Ostermann , Richard Kueng , Timo de Wolff , David Gross