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The continuous-time analysis of existing iterative algorithms for optimization has a long history. This work proposes a novel continuous-time control-theoretic framework for equality-constrained optimization. The key idea is to design a…

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This paper studies stochastic optimization problems with polynomials. We propose an optimization model with sample averages and perturbations. The Lasserre type Moment-SOS relaxations are used to solve the sample average optimization.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Jiawang Nie , Liu Yang , Suhan Zhong

In this paper, "chance optimization" problems are introduced, where one aims at maximizing the probability of a set defined by polynomial inequalities. These problems are, in general, nonconvex and computationally hard. With the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Ashkan Jasour , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Constantino Lagoa

Systems subjected to holonomic constraints follow quite complicated dynamics that could not be described easily with Hamiltonian or Lagrangian dynamics. The influence of holonomic constraints in equations of motions is taken into account by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-08 Martial Mazars

We consider the problem of finding the global optimum of a real-valued complex polynomial on a compact set defined by real-valued complex polynomial inequalities. It reduces to solving a sequence of complex semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Cédric Josz , Daniel K. Molzahn

This paper studies bilevel polynomial optimization in which lower-level constraint functions depend linearly on lower-level variables. We show that such bilevel program can be reformulated as a disjunctive program by using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jiawang Nie , Jane J. Ye , Suhan Zhong

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

We consider polynomial optimization problems (POP) on a semialgebraic set contained in the nonnegative orthant (every POP on a compact set can be put in this format by a simple translation of the origin). Such a POP can be converted to an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai , Victor Magron , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Kim-Chuan Toh

Lagrangian relaxation is a versatile mathematical technique employed to relax constraints in an optimization problem, enabling the generation of dual bounds to prove the optimality of feasible solutions and the design of efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Augustin Parjadis , Quentin Cappart , Bistra Dilkina , Aaron Ferber , Louis-Martin Rousseau

We investigate the problem of representing moment sequences by measures in the context ofPolynomial Optimization Problems, that consist in finding the infimum of a real polynomial ona real semialgebraic set defined by polynomial…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Lorenzo Baldi , Bernard Mourrain

Constrained optimization problems exist in many domains of science, such as thermodynamics, mechanics, economics, etc. These problems are classically solved with the help of the Lagrange multipliers and the Lagrangian function. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Cyril Cayron

We discuss first order optimality conditions for geometric optimization problems with Neumann boundary conditions and boundary observation. The methods we develop here are applicable to large classes of state systems or cost functionals.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Dan Tiba

This paper introduces a Moment-Quaternion-Sum-of-Squares (QSOS) hierarchy for solving a class of quaternion polynomial optimization problems. This hierarchy is formulated directly in the quaternion domain and consists of a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Yanqing Liu , Jie Wang

Moment polytopes of tensors, the study of which is deeply rooted in invariant theory, representation theory and symplectic geometry, have found relevance in numerous places, from quantum information (entanglement polytopes) and algebraic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Maxim van den Berg , Matthias Christandl , Vladimir Lysikov , Harold Nieuwboer , Michael Walter , Jeroen Zuiddam

The classical Moment-Sum Of Squares hierarchy allows to approximate a global minimum of a polynomial optimization problem through semidefinite relaxations of increasing size. However, for many optimization instances, solving higher order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Srećko Ðurašinović , Perla Azzi , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron , Olga Mula , Jun Zhao

Near isometric orthogonal embeddings to lower dimensions are a fundamental tool in data science and machine learning. In this paper, we present the construction of such embeddings that minimizes the maximum distortion for a given set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-15 Kshiteej Sheth , Dinesh Garg , Anirban Dasgupta

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

This work proposes a new moment-SOS hierarchy, called CS-TSSOS, for solving large-scale sparse polynomial optimization problems. Its novelty is to exploit simultaneously correlative sparsity and term sparsity by combining advantages of two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Jean B. Lasserre , Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai

We address combinatorial problems that can be formulated as minimization of a partially separable function of discrete variables (energy minimization in graphical models, weighted constraint satisfaction, pseudo-Boolean optimization, 0-1…

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