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The paper deals with the problem of finding sparse solutions to systems of polynomial equations possibly perturbed by noise. In particular, we show how these solutions can be recovered from group-sparse solutions of a derived system of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-17 Fabien Lauer , Henrik Ohlsson

We provide a new hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations, called NCTSSOS, to solve large-scale sparse noncommutative polynomial optimization problems. This hierarchy features the exploitation of term sparsity hidden in the input…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Jie Wang , Victor Magron

We present a polynomial time algorithm to approximately scale tensors of any format to arbitrary prescribed marginals (whenever possible). This unifies and generalizes a sequence of past works on matrix, operator and tensor scaling. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Peter Bürgisser , Cole Franks , Ankit Garg , Rafael Oliveira , Michael Walter , Avi Wigderson

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

In this paper we propose a second--order method for solving \emph{linear composite sparse optimization problems} consisting of minimizing the sum of a differentiable (possibly nonconvex function) and a nondifferentiable convex term. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Pedro Merino , Juan Carlos De Los Reyes

We give new algorithms based on the sum-of-squares method for tensor decomposition. Our results improve the best known running times from quasi-polynomial to polynomial for several problems, including decomposing random overcomplete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Tengyu Ma , Jonathan Shi , David Steurer

We develop both first and second order numerical optimization methods to solve non-smooth optimization problems featuring a shared sparsity penalty, constrained by differential equations with uncertainty. To alleviate the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Harbir Antil , Sergey Dolgov , Akwum Onwunta

We study the problem of minimizing a multivariate polynomial function over the unit hypercube. By representing the polynomial through a hypergraph and exploiting its sparsity structure, we establish a new sufficient condition under which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Aida Khajavirad

This paper proposes a real moment-HSOS hierarchy for complex polynomial optimization problems with real coefficients. We show that this hierarchy provides the same sequence of lower bounds as the complex analogue, yet is much cheaper to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jie Wang , Victor Magron

We study polynomial optimization problems whose objective has a composition or tensor train structure. These polynomials can be evaluated as a sequence of maps, giving rise to intermediate variables (``states'') of dimension lower than the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Llorenç Balada Gaggioli , Didier Henrion , Milan Korda

This work is a follow-up and a complement to arXiv:1912.08899 [math.OC] for solving polynomial optimization problems (POPs). The chordal-TSSOS hierarchy that we propose is a new sparse moment-SOS framework based on term-sparsity and chordal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

In this work, we propose an optimization framework for estimating a sparse robust one-dimensional subspace. Our objective is to minimize both the representation error and the penalty, in terms of the l1-norm criterion. Given that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-07 Xiao Ling , Paul Brooks

The multi-objective optimization is to optimize several objective functions over a common feasible set. Since the objectives usually do not share a common optimizer, people often consider (weakly) Pareto points. This paper studies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Jiawang Nie , Zi Yang

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

We study a generalized framework for structured sparsity. It extends the well-known methods of Lasso and Group Lasso by incorporating additional constraints on the variables as part of a convex optimization problem. This framework provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-06-28 Andreas Argyriou , Luca Baldassarre , Jean Morales , Massimiliano Pontil

Machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms typically require large amount of data for training. This means that for nonlinear aeroelastic applications, where small training budgets are driven by the high computational burden…

Demixing problems in many areas such as hyperspectral imaging and differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) often require finding sparse nonnegative linear combinations of dictionary elements that match observed data. We show how…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-01-04 Ernie Esser , Yifei Lou , Jack Xin

In this paper, we propose a general sparse decomposition of dynamical systems provided that the vector field and constraint set possess certain sparse structures, which we call subsystems. This notion is based on causal dependence in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Corbinian Schlosser , Milan Korda

This chapter investigates how symmetries can be used to reduce the computational complexity in polynomial optimization problems. A focus will be specifically given on the Moment-SOS hierarchy in polynomial optimization, where results from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Philippe Moustrou , Cordian Riener , Hugues Verdure

This paper considers sparse polynomial optimization with unbounded sets. When the problem possesses correlative sparsity, we propose a sparse homogenized Moment-SOS hierarchy with perturbations to solve it. The new hierarchy introduces one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Lei Huang , Shucheng Kang , Jie Wang , Heng Yang