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We provide a sparse version of the bounded degree SOS hierarchy BSOS [7] for polynomial optimization problems. It permits to treat large scale problems which satisfy a structured sparsity pattern. When the sparsity pattern satisfies the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Tillmann Weisser , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Kim-Chuan Toh

We consider a new hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations for the general polynomial optimization problem $(P):\:f^{\ast}=\min \{\,f(x):x\in K\,\}$ on a compact basic semi-algebraic set $K\subset\R^n$. This hierarchy combines some advantages…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Toh Kim-Chuan , Yang Shouguang

A popular numerical method to compute SOS (sum of squares of polynomials) decompositions for polynomials is to transform the problem into semi-definite programming (SDP) problems and then solve them by SDP solvers. In this paper, we focus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Liyun Dai , Bican Xia

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

A widely used method for solving SOS (Sum Of Squares) decomposition problem is to reduce it to the problem of semi-definite programs (SDPs) which can be efficiently solved in theory. In practice, although many SDP solvers can work out some…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Haokun Li , Bican Xia

In this paper, we introduce a new class of nonsmooth convex functions called SOS-convex semialgebraic functions extending the recently proposed notion of SOS-convex polynomials. This class of nonsmooth convex functions covers many common…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-09 N. H. Chieu , J. W. Feng , W. Gao , G. Li , D. Wu

We propose a novel methodology for solving a two-stage adjustable robust convex optimisation problem with a general (proximable) convex objective function and constraints defined by sum-of-squares (SOS) convex polynomials. These problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Neil D. Dizon , Bethany I. Caldwell , Vaithilingam Jeyakumar , Guoyin Li

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

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

It is well-known that any sum of squares (SOS) program can be cast as a semidefinite program (SDP) of a particular structure and that therein lies the computational bottleneck for SOS programs, as the SDPs generated by this procedure are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall , Antonis Papachristodoulou , James Saunderson , Yang Zheng

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

Optimization over non-negative polynomials is fundamental for nonlinear systems analysis and control. We investigate the relation between three tractable relaxations for optimizing over sparse non-negative polynomials: sparse sum-of-squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou

This paper studies generalized semi-infinite programs (GSIPs) given by polynomials. We propose a hierarchy of polynomial optimization relaxations to solve them. They are based on Lagrange multiplier expressions and polynomial extensions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Xiaomeng Hu , Jiawang Nie

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

Many problems of systems control theory boil down to solving polynomial equations, polynomial inequalities or polyomial differential equations. Recent advances in convex optimization and real algebraic geometry can be combined to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-13 Didier Henrion

Global polynomial optimization is an important tool across applied mathematics, with many applications in operations research, engineering, and physical sciences. In various settings, the polynomials depend on external parameters that may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Richard L. Zhu , Mathias Oster , Yuehaw Khoo

This paper studies the polynomial optimization problem whose feasible set is a union of several basic closed semialgebraic sets. We propose a unified hierarchy of Moment-SOS relaxations to solve it globally. Under some assumptions, we prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Jiawang Nie , Linghao Zhang

In this survey we consider polynomial optimization problems, asking to minimize a polynomial function over a compact semialgebraic set, defined by polynomial inequalities. This models a great variety of (in general, nonlinear nonconvex)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Monique Laurent , Lucas Slot

In this paper, we consider a bilevel polynomial optimization problem where the objective and the constraint functions of both the upper and the lower level problems are polynomials. We present methods for finding its global minimizers and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-14 V. Jeyakumar , J. B. Lasserre , G. Li , T. S. Pham

Semidefinite and sum-of-squares (SOS) optimization are fundamental computational tools in many areas, including linear and nonlinear systems theory. However, the scale of problems that can be addressed reliably and efficiently is still…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Yang Zheng , Aivar Sootla , Antonis Papachristodoulou
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