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Polynomial optimization problems are infinite-dimensional, nonconvex, NP-hard, and are often handled in practice with the moment-sums of squares hierarchy of semidefinite programming bounds. We consider problems where the objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Igor Klep , Victor Magron , Tobias Metzlaff , Jie Wang

The purpose of this note is to survey a methodology to solve systems of polynomial equations and inequalities. The techniques we discuss use the algebra of multivariate polynomials with coefficients over a field to create large-scale linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Jesus A. De Loera , Peter N. Malkin , Pablo A. Parrilo

In this paper we study various approaches for exploiting symmetries in polynomial optimization problems within the framework of semi definite programming relaxations. Our special focus is on constrained problems especially when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-22 Cordian Riener , Thorsten Theobald , Lina Jansson Andrén , Jean B. Lasserre

This paper studies generalized truncated moment problems with unbounded sets. First, we study geometric properties of the truncated moment cone and its dual cone of nonnegative polynomials. By the technique of homogenization, we give a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Lei Huang , Jiawang Nie , Ya-Xiang Yuan

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

In this paper, we study the global optimality of polynomial portfolio optimization (PPO). The PPO is a kind of portfolio selection model with high-order moments and flexible risk preference parameters. We introduce a perturbation sample…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Liu Yang , Yi Yang , Suhan Zhong

This work proposes a new moment-SOS hierarchy, called CS-TSSOS, for solving large-scale sparse polynomial optimization problems. Its novelty is to exploit simultaneously correlative sparsity and term sparsity by combining advantages of two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Jean B. Lasserre , Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai

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 present a hierarchy of tractable relaxations to obtain lower bounds on the minimum value of a polynomial over a constraint set defined by polynomial equations. In contrast to previous convex relaxation techniques for this problem, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Elvira Moreno , Venkat Chandrasekaran

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

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

We present a new algorithm for solving a polynomial program P based on the recent "joint + marginal" approach of the first author for, parametric optimization. The idea is to first consider the variable x1 as a parameter and solve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Jean B. Lasserre , Thanh Tung Phan

We consider the problem of computing the Lebesgue volume of compact basic semi-algebraic sets. In full generality, it can be approximated as closely as desired by a converging hierarchy of upper bounds obtained by applying the Moment-SOS…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Matteo Tacchi , Jean B Lasserre , Didier Henrion

This paper focuses on the study of a mathematical program with equilibrium constraints, where the objective and the constraint functions are all polynomials. We present a method for finding its global minimizers and global minimum using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Liguo Jiao , Jae Hyoung Lee , Tien-Son Pham

In this paper, we address the effective degree bound problem for Lasserre's hierarchy of moment-sum-of-squares (SOS) relaxations in polynomial optimization involving $n$ variables. We assume that the first $n$ equality constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Zheng Hua , Zheng Qu

We propose a method for verifying that a given feasible point for a polynomial optimization problem is globally optimal. The approach relies on the Lasserre hierarchy and the result of Lasserre regarding the importance of the convexity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Sikun Xu , Ruoyi Ma , Daniel K. Molzahn , Hassan Hijazi , Cédric Josz

This paper discusses the split feasibility problem with polynomials. The sets are semi-algebraic, defined by polynomial inequalities. They can be either convex or nonconvex, either feasible or infeasible. We give semidefinite relaxations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Jiawang Nie , Jinling Zhao

We introduce a sublevel Moment-SOS hierarchy where each SDP relaxation can be viewed as an intermediate (or interpolation) between the d-th and (d+1)-th order SDP relaxations of the Moment-SOS hierarchy (dense or sparse version). With the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Tong Chen , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron , Edouard Pauwels

The moment-sum of squares hierarchy by Lasserre has become an established technique for solving polynomial optimization problems. It provides a monotonically increasing series of tight bounds, but has well-known scalability limitations. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Daria Shaydurova , Volker Kaibel , Sebastian Sager

We present a general approach to rounding semidefinite programming relaxations obtained by the Sum-of-Squares method (Lasserre hierarchy). Our approach is based on using the connection between these relaxations and the Sum-of-Squares proof…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Boaz Barak , Jonathan Kelner , David Steurer