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In this paper, we study a class of fractional semi-infinite polynomial programming problems involving s.o.s-convex polynomial functions. For such a problem, by a conic reformulation proposed in our previous work and the quadratic modules…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Feng Guo , Meijun Zhang

We develop tractable convex relaxations for rank-constrained quadratic optimization problems over $n \times m$ matrices, a setting for which tractable relaxations are typically only available when the objective or constraints admit spectral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

We consider the general polynomial optimization problem $P: f^*=\min \{f(x)\,:\,x\in K\}$ where $K$ is a compact basic semi-algebraic set. We first show that the standard Lagrangian relaxation yields a lower bound as close as desired to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-18 Jean Lasserre

Statistical inference problems arising within signal processing, data mining, and machine learning naturally give rise to hard combinatorial optimization problems. These problems become intractable when the dimensionality of the data is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-27 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Combining recent moment and sparse semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation techniques, we propose an approach to find smooth approximations for solutions of problems involving nonlinear differential equations. Given a system of nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-13 Martin Mevissen , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Didier Henrion

In this paper, by improving the variable-splitting approach, we propose a new semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation for the nonconvex quadratic optimization problem over the $\ell_1$ unit ball (QPL1). It dominates the state-of-the-art…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Yong Xia , Yu-Jun Gong , Sheng-Nan Han

A hierarchy of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations approximates the global optimum of polynomial optimization problems of noncommuting variables. Generating the relaxation, however, is a computationally demanding task, and only…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Peter Wittek

This paper aims to find efficient solutions to a multi-objective optimization problem (MP) with convex polynomial data. To this end, a hybrid method, which allows us to transform problem (MP) into a scalar convex polynomial optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Jae Hyoung Lee , Nithirat Sisarat , Liguo Jiao

We show how to bound the accuracy of a family of semi-definite programming relaxations for the problem of polynomial optimization on the hypersphere. Our method is inspired by a set of results from quantum information known as quantum de…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-25 Andrew C. Doherty , Stephanie Wehner

We introduce a novel method for clustering using a semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the Max k-Cut problem. The approach is based on a new methodology for rounding the solution of an SDP relaxation using iterated linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Pedro Felzenszwalb , Caroline Klivans , Alice Paul

Hydro-thermal coordination is the problem of determining the optimal economic dispatch of hydro and thermal power plants over time. The physics of hydroelectricity generation is commonly simplified in the literature to account for its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 M. Paredes , L. S. A. Martins

We study the convex relaxation of a polynomial optimization problem, maximizing a product of linear forms over the complex sphere. We show that this convex program is also a relaxation of the permanent of Hermitian positive semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Chenyang Yuan , Pablo A. Parrilo

This paper investigates the minimization of the expectation of piecewise polynomial loss functions over Wasserstein balls. This optimization problem often appears as a key sub-problem of distributionally robust optimization problems. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 N. D. Dizon , Q. Y. Huang , T. D. Chuong , G. Li , V. Jeyakumar

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a powerful tool for tackling a wide range of computationally hard problems such as clustering. Despite the high accuracy, semidefinite programs are often too slow in practice with poor scalability on large…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-10 Yubo Zhuang , Xiaohui Chen , Yun Yang

We study the Quadratic Cycle Cover Problem (QCCP), which aims to find a node-disjoint cycle cover in a directed graph with minimum interaction cost between successive arcs. We derive several semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Frank de Meijer , Renata Sotirov

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

We show {\it semidefinite programming} (SDP) feasibility problem is equivalent to solving a {\it convex hull relaxation} (CHR) for a finite system of quadratic equations. On the one hand, this offers a simple description of SDP. On the…

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This paper studies a class of so-called linear semi-infinite polynomial programming (LSIPP) problems. It is a subclass of linear semi-infinite programming problems whose constraint functions are polynomials in parameters and index sets are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Feng Guo , Xiaoxia Sun

In this paper, we propose some new semidefinite relaxations for a class of nonconvex complex quadratic programming problems, which widely appear in the areas of signal processing and power system. By deriving new valid constraints to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Yingzhe Xu , Cheng Lu , Zhibin Deng , Ya-Feng Liu