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This paper studies the copositive optimization problem whose objective is a sparse polynomial, with linear constraints over the nonnegative orthant. We propose sparse Moment-SOS relaxations to solve it. Necessary and sufficient conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Suhan Zhong , Jinling Zhou , Jiawang Nie , Xindong Tang

The moment-SOS (sum of squares) hierarchy is a powerful approach for solving globally non-convex polynomial optimization problems (POPs) at the price of solving a family of convex semidefinite optimization problems (called moment-SOS…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Didier Henrion

This paper proposes a bilevel hierarchy of strengthened complex moment relaxations for complex polynomial optimization. The key trick entails considering a class of positive semidefinite conditions that arise naturally in characterizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Jie Wang

This paper considers sparse polynomial optimization with unbounded sets. When the problem possesses correlative sparsity, we propose a sparse homogenized Moment-SOS hierarchy with perturbations to solve it. The new hierarchy introduces one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Lei Huang , Shucheng Kang , Jie Wang , Heng Yang

Given a compact parameter set $Y\subset R^p$, we consider polynomial optimization problems $(P_y$) on $R^n$ whose description depends on the parameter $y\inY$. We assume that one can compute all moments of some probability measure $\phi$ on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-18 Jean B. Lasserre

We consider polynomial optimization problems (POP) on a semialgebraic set contained in the nonnegative orthant (every POP on a compact set can be put in this format by a simple translation of the origin). Such a POP can be converted to an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai , Victor Magron , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Kim-Chuan Toh

In this paper, we present a branch and bound algorithm for extracting approximate solutions to Global Polynomial Optimization (GPO) problems with bounded feasible sets. The algorithm is based on a combination of SOS/Moment relaxations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Hesameddin Mohammadi , Matthew M. Peet

In this article we provide an experimental algorithm that in many cases gives us an upper bound of the global infimum of a real polynomial on $\R^{n}$. It is very well known that to find the global infimum of a real polynomial on $\R^{n}$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 María López Quijorna

One considers polynomial optimization problems with compact feasible set $\mathbf{\Omega}$ defined by SOS-concave polynomials $g_j$, and with a globally non-convex polynomial objective $f$. We show that if $f$ is strongly convex on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Srećko Ðurašinović , Jean B. Lasserre

In this paper, we study the sparsity-adapted complex moment-Hermitian sum of squares (moment-HSOS) hierarchy for complex polynomial optimization problems, where the sparsity includes correlative sparsity and term sparsity. We compare the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Jie Wang , Victor Magron

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

This paper studies the sparse Moment-SOS hierarchy of relaxations for solving sparse polynomial optimization problems. We show that this sparse hierarchy is tight if and only if the objective can be written as a sum of sparse nonnegative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Jiawang Nie , Zheng Qu , Xindong Tang , Linghao Zhang

We show that (i) any constrained polynomial optimization problem (POP) has an equivalent formulation on a variety contained in an Euclidean sphere and (ii) the resulting semidefinite relaxations in the moment-SOS hierarchy have the constant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai , Victor Magron , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

We consider min-max optimization problems for polynomial functions, where a multivariate polynomial is maximized with respect to a subset of variables, and the resulting maximal value is minimized with respect to the remaining variables.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Francis Bach

This paper is devoted to the problem of minimizing a sum of rational functions over a basic semialgebraic set. We provide a hierarchy of sum of squares (SOS) relaxations that is dual to the generalized moment problem approach due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Feng Guo , Jie Wang , Jianhao Zheng

Sum of squares (SOS) optimization is a powerful technique for solving problems where the positivity of a polynomials must be enforced. The common approach to solve an SOS problem is by relaxation to a Semidefinite Program (SDP). The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Daniel Keren , Margarita Osadchy , Roi Poranne

We propose a moment relaxation for two problems, the separation and covering problem with semi-algebraic sets generated by a polynomial of degree d. We show that (a) the optimal value of the relaxation finitely converges to the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron

Lasserre's moment-SOS hierarchy consists of approximating instances of the generalized moment problem (GMP) with moment relaxations and sums-of-squares (SOS) strenghtenings that boil down to convex semidefinite programming (SDP) problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Matteo Tacchi

We formulate a class of nonlinear {evolution} partial differential equations (PDEs) as linear optimization problems on moments of positive measures supported on infinite-dimensional vector spaces. Using sums of squares (SOS) representations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Didier Henrion , Maria Infusino , Salma Kuhlmann , Victor Vinnikov

We consider a property of positive polynomials on a compact set with a small perturbation. When applied to a Polynomial Optimization Problem (POP), the property implies that the optimal value of the corresponding SemiDefinite Programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Masakazu Muramatsu , Hayato Waki , Levent Tuncel