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A new relaxed variant of interior point method for low-rank semidefinite programming problems is proposed in this paper. The method is a step outside of the usual interior point framework. In anticipation to converging to a low-rank primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Stefania Bellavia , Jacek Gondzio , Margherita Porcelli

In this paper, based a novel primal-dual dynamical model with adaptive scaling parameters and Bregman divergences, we propose new accelerated primal-dual proximal gradient splitting methods for solving bilinear saddle-point problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Hao Luo

We study the bilinearly coupled minimax problem: $\min_{x} \max_{y} f(x) + y^\top A x - h(y)$, where $f$ and $h$ are both strongly convex smooth functions and admit first-order gradient oracles. Surprisingly, no known first-order algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Niao He , Sewoong Oh

Understanding and approximating extremal energy states of local Hamiltonians is a central problem in quantum physics and complexity theory. Recent work has focused on developing approximation algorithms for local Hamiltonians, and in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Jun Takahashi , Chaithanya Rayudu , Cunlu Zhou , Robbie King , Kevin Thompson , Ojas Parekh

This paper aims to present a fairly accessible generalization of several symmetric Gauss-Seidel decomposition based multi-block proximal alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMMs) for convex composite optimization problems. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Liang Chen , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh , Ning Zhang

We propose an inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian framework with explicit inner problem termination rule for composite convex optimization problems. We consider arbitrary linearly convergent inner solver including in particular stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Fei Li , Zheng Qu

We study a class of convex-concave min-max problems in which the coupled component of the objective is linear in at least one of the two decision vectors. We identify such problem structure as interpolating between the bilinearly and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Ronak Mehta , Jelena Diakonikolas , Zaid Harchaoui

Semi-Infinite Programming (SIP) has emerged as a powerful framework for modeling problems with infinite constraints, however, its theoretical development in the context of nonconvex and large-scale optimization remains limited. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Cody Melcher , Zeinab Alizadeh , Lindsey Hiett , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

In this paper, we introduce HPR-QP, a dual Halpern Peaceman-Rachford (HPR) method designed for solving large-scale convex composite quadratic programming. One distinctive feature of HPR-QP is that, instead of working with the primal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Kaihuang Chen , Defeng Sun , Yancheng Yuan , Guojun Zhang , Xinyuan Zhao

In this paper, we propose a generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with semi-proximal terms for solving a class of convex composite conic optimization problems, of which some are high-dimensional, to moderate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Yunhai Xiao , Liang Chen , Donghui Li

We consider semidefinite programming (SDP) approaches for solving the maximum satisfiability problem (MAX-SAT) and the weighted partial MAX-SAT. It is widely known that SDP is well-suited to approximate the (MAX-)2-SAT. Our work shows the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Lennart Sinjorgo , Renata Sotirov

In this chapter we derive computational complexity certifications of first order inexact dual methods for solving general smooth constrained convex problems which can arise in real-time applications, such as model predictive control. When…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu , Angelia Nedić

Approximations of optimization problems arise in computational procedures and sensitivity analysis. The resulting effect on solutions can be significant, with even small approximations of components of a problem translating into large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Johannes O. Royset

We consider a generic convex optimization problem associated with regularized empirical risk minimization of linear predictors. The problem structure allows us to reformulate it as a convex-concave saddle point problem. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Yuchen Zhang , Lin Xiao

This paper derives a discrete dual problem for a prototypical hybrid high-order method for convex minimization problems. The discrete primal and dual problem satisfy a weak convex duality that leads to a priori error estimates with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Ngoc Tien Tran

We initiate the algorithmic study of the Quantum Max-$d$-Cut problem, a quantum generalization of the well-known Max-$d$-Cut problem. The Quantum Max-$d$-Cut problem involves finding a quantum state that maximizes the expected energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Charlie Carlson , Zackary Jorquera , Alexandra Kolla , Steven Kordonowy , Stuart Wayland

Quadratic assignment problems are a fundamental class of combinatorial optimization problems which are ubiquitous in applications, yet their exact resolution is NP-hard. To circumvent this impasse, it was proposed to regularize such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Venkatkrishna Karumanchi , Gabriel Rioux , Ziv Goldfeld

This paper investigates a new class of non-convex optimization, which provides a unified framework for linear precoding in single/multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels with arbitrary input distributions. The new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Juening Jin , Yahong Rosa~Zheng , Wen Chen , Chengshan Xiao

In this paper we propose distributed dual gradient algorithms for linearly constrained separable convex problems and analyze their rate of convergence under different assumptions. Under the strong convexity assumption on the primal…

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