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In this work we study convex relaxations of quadratic optimisation problems over permutation matrices. While existing semidefinite programming approaches can achieve remarkably tight relaxations, they have the strong disadvantage that they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Florian Bernard , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

In this paper, we investigate a special class of quadratic-constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) with semi-definite constraints. Traditionally, since such a problem is non-convex and N-hard, the neural network (NN) is regarded as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Xiucheng Wang , Qi Qiu , Nan Cheng

Non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems have numerous applications in signal processing, machine learning, and wireless communications, albeit the general QCQP is NP-hard, and several interesting special…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Kejun Huang , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

The problem of minimizing a (nonconvex) quadratic form over the unit simplex, referred to as a standard quadratic program, admits an exact convex conic formulation over the computationally intractable cone of completely positive matrices.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Y. Gorkem Gokmen , E. Alper Yildirim

In model predictive control (MPC) an optimization problem has to be solved at each time step, which in real-time applications makes it important to solve these optimization problems efficiently and to have good upper bounds on worst-case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Daniel Arnström , Daniel Axehill

We consider a parametric family of quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQP) and their associated semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations. Given a nominal value of the parameter at which the SDP relaxation is exact, we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Diego Cifuentes , Sameer Agarwal , Pablo A. Parrilo , Rekha R. Thomas

The framework of Integral Quadratic Constraints (IQC) reduces the computation of upper bounds on the convergence rate of several optimization algorithms to a semi-definite program (SDP). In the case of over-relaxed Alternating Direction…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Guilherme França , José Bento

Projected Gradient Descent denotes a class of iterative methods for solving optimization programs. Its applicability to convex optimization programs has gained significant popularity for its intuitive implementation that involves only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Giampaolo Torrisi , Sergio Grammatico , Roy S. Smith , Manfred Morari

We propose a solution approach for the problem (P) of minimizing an unconstrained binary polynomial optimization problem. We call this method PQCR (Polynomial Quadratic Convex Reformulation). The resolution is based on a 3-phase method. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Sourour Elloumi , Amélie Lambert , Arnaud Lazare

In [SIAM J. Optim., 2022], the authors introduced a new linear programming (LP) relaxation for K-means clustering. In this paper, we further investigate both theoretical and computational properties of this relaxation. As evident from our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Antonio De Rosa , Aida Khajavirad , Yakun Wang

This paper presents a methodology for using varying sample sizes in sequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods for solving equality constrained stochastic optimization problems. The first part of the paper deals with the delicate issue…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Baoyu Zhou

This paper is concerned with optimal power flow (OPF), which is the problem of optimizing the transmission of electricity in power systems. Our main contributions are as follows: (i) we propose a novel parabolic relaxation, which transforms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Fariba Zohrizadeh , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Edward Quarm , Ramtin Madani

Quadratic programming (QP) underpins real-time robotics by enabling efficient, constrained optimization in state estimation, motion planning, and control. In legged locomotion and manipulation, essential modules like inverse dynamics, Model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Van Nam Dinh

We propose a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm for inequality constrained optimization that is robust to the presence of bounded noise in function and derivative evaluations. We cover the case where constraint evaluations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Figen Oztoprak , Richard Byrd

Quadratic Programming (QP) is the well-studied problem of maximizing over {-1,1} values the quadratic form \sum_{i \ne j} a_{ij} x_i x_j. QP captures many known combinatorial optimization problems, and assuming the unique games conjecture,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Rajsekar Manokaran , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We present new large-scale algorithms for fitting a subgradient regularized multivariate convex regression function to $n$ samples in $d$ dimensions -- a key problem in shape constrained nonparametric regression with applications in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Wenyu Chen , Rahul Mazumder

Quadratic programming (QP) is a well-studied fundamental NP-hard optimization problem which optimizes a quadratic objective over a set of linear constraints. In this paper, we reformulate QPs as a mixed-integer linear problem (MILP). This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Wei Xia , Juan Vera , Luis F. Zuluaga

In this paper, we consider a class of nonconvex complex quadratic programming (CQP) problems, which find a broad spectrum of signal processing applications. By using the polar coordinate representations of the complex variables, we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Cheng Lu , Ya-Feng Liu , Jing Zhou

In this paper, we consider an SDP relaxation of the quadratic knapsack problem (QKP). After using the Burer-Monteiro factorization, we get a non-convex optimization problem, whose feasible region is an algebraic variety. Although there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Tianyun Tang , Kim-Chuan Toh

Convex relaxations of the power flow equations and, in particular, the Semi-Definite Programming (SDP) and Second-Order Cone (SOC) relaxations, have attracted significant interest in recent years. The Quadratic Convex (QC) relaxation is a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Carleton Coffrin , Hassan L. Hijazi , Pascal Van Hentenryck