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We propose a robust model predictive control (MPC) method for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems with norm-bounded additive disturbances and model uncertainty. In our method, at each time step we solve a finite time robust optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Shaoru Chen , Nikolai Matni , Manfred Morari , Victor M. Preciado

Model predictive control (MPC) has become a hot cake technology for various applications due to its ability to handle multi-input multi-output systems with physical constraints. The optimization solvers require considerable time, limiting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Abhijith Sharma , Chaitanya Jugade , Shreya Yawalkar , Vaishali Patne , Deepak Ingole , Dayaram Sonawane

The linear complementarity problem (LCP) is a general set membership problem that includes quadratic cone programming as a special case. In this work we consider a homogeneous embedding of the LCP, which encodes both the optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Brendan O'Donoghue

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are standard convex problems that are frequently found in control and optimization applications. Interior-point methods can solve SDPs in polynomial time up to arbitrary accuracy, but scale poorly as the size of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Jared Miller , Yang Zheng , Mario Sznaier , Antonis Papachristodoulou

In this paper we theoretically show that interior-point methods based on self-concordant barriers possess favorable global complexity beyond their standard application area of convex optimization. To do that we propose first- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Pavel Dvurechensky , Mathias Staudigl

In this paper, we present a new method to solve a certain type of Semidefinite Programming (SDP) problems. These types of SDPs naturally arise in the Quadratic Convex Reformulation (QCR) method and can be used to obtain dual bounds of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Apostolos Chalkis , Thomas Kleinert , Boro Sofranac

The aim of this paper is to solve linear semidefinite programs arising from higher-order Lasserre relaxations of unconstrained binary quadratic optimization problems. For this we use an interior point method with a preconditioned conjugate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Soodeh Habibi , Michal Kocvara , Michael Stingl

Quantum relative entropy optimization refers to a class of convex problems in which a linear functional is minimized over an affine section of the epigraph of the quantum relative entropy function. Recently, the self-concordance of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Kerry He , James Saunderson , Hamza Fawzi

We provide the first study of the problem of finding differentially private (DP) second-order stationary points (SOSP) in stochastic (non-convex) minimax optimization. Existing literature either focuses only on first-order stationary points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Difei Xu , Youming Tao , Meng Ding , Chenglin Fan , Di Wang

Second-order Newton-type algorithms that leverage the exact Hessian or its approximation are central to solve nonlinear optimization problems. However, their applications in solving large-scale nonconvex problems are hindered by three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Krishan Kumar , Ashutosh Sharma , Gauransh Dingwani , Nikhil Gupta , Vaishnavi Gupta , Ishan Bajaj

The cone of positive-semidefinite (PSD) matrices is fundamental in convex optimization, and we extend this notion to tensors, defining PSD tensors, which correspond to separable quantum states. We study the convex optimization problem over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Liding Xu , Ye-Chao Liu , Sebastian Pokutta

Recent methods for learning a linear subspace from data corrupted by outliers are based on convex $\ell_1$ and nuclear norm optimization and require the dimension of the subspace and the number of outliers to be sufficiently small. In sharp…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Zhihui Zhu , Yifan Wang , Daniel P. Robinson , Daniel Q. Naiman , Rene Vidal , Manolis C. Tsakiris

We present a coordinate ascent method for a class of semidefinite programming problems that arise in non-convex quadratic integer optimization. These semidefinite programs are characterized by a small total number of active constraints and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Christoph Buchheim , Maribel Montenegro , Angelika Wiegele

We study two fundamental optimization problems: (1) scaling a symmetric positive definite matrix by a positive diagonal matrix so that the resulting matrix has row and column sums equal to 1; and (2) minimizing a quadratic function subject…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Adrian Vladu

In this paper, we propose a new convergent conic programming hierarchy of relaxations involving both semi-definite cone and second-order cone constraints for solving nonconvex polynomial optimization problems to global optimality. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 T. D Chuong , V. Jeyakumar , G. Li

We consider structured minimization problems subject to smooth inequality constraints and present a flexible algorithm that combines interior point (IP) and proximal gradient schemes. While traditional IP methods cannot cope with nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Alberto De Marchi , Andreas Themelis

Hyperbolic polynomials is a class of real-roots polynomials that has wide range of applications in theoretical computer science. Each hyperbolic polynomial also induces a hyperbolic cone that is of particular interest in optimization due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Yichuan Deng , Zhao Song , Lichen Zhang , Ruizhe Zhang

We study quantum interior point methods (QIPMs) for second-order cone programming (SOCP), guided by the example use case of portfolio optimization (PO). We provide a complete quantum circuit-level description of the algorithm from problem…

In this paper, we adopt the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) to solve convex quadratic second-order cone programming problems (SOCPs). Fruitful results on the efficiency of the ALM have been established in the literature. Recently, it has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Ling Liang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

Convex separable quadratic optimization problems occur in many practical applications. In this paper, based on an iterative resolution scheme of the KKT system, we develop an efficient method for solving a quadratic programming problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Shaoze Li , Junhao Wu , Cheng Lu , Zhibin Deng , Shu-Cherng Fang