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In this study, we investigate the application of Semidefinite Programming (SDP) to phylogenetics. SDP is a powerful optimization framework that seeks to optimize a linear objective function over the cone of positive semidefinite matrices.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-15 P. Skums

We introduce SDPB: an open-source, parallelized, arbitrary-precision semidefinite program solver, designed for the conformal bootstrap. SDPB significantly outperforms less specialized solvers and should enable many new computations. As an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-10 David Simmons-Duffin

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a central topic in mathematical optimization with extensive studies on its efficient solvers. In this paper, we present a proof-of-principle sublinear-time algorithm for solving SDPs with low-rank…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Nai-Hui Chia , Tongyang Li , Han-Hsuan Lin , Chunhao Wang

We approximate the backward reachable set of discrete-time autonomous polynomial systems using the recently developed occupation measure approach. We formulate the problem as an infinite-dimensional linear programming (LP) problem on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Weiqiao Han , Russ Tedrake

The multireference alignment problem consists of estimating a signal from multiple noisy shifted observations. Inspired by existing Unique-Games approximation algorithms, we provide a semidefinite program (SDP) based relaxation which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Afonso S. Bandeira , Moses Charikar , Amit Singer , Andy Zhu

Semidefinite programming (SDP) provides a powerful relaxation for the maximum cut problem. For a graph with rational weights, the decision problem of whether the SDP relaxation for the maximum cut problem is exact is known to be $NP$-hard;…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Avinash Bhardwaj , Hritiz Gogoi , Vishnu Narayanan , Abhishek Pathapati

We consider the problem of community detection in the Stochastic Block Model with a finite number $K$ of communities of sizes linearly growing with the network size $n$. This model consists in a random graph such that each pair of vertices…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Se-Young Yun , Alexandre Proutiere

We study the problem of community recovery and detection in multi-layer stochastic block models, focusing on the critical network density threshold for consistent community structure inference. Using a prototypical two-block model, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Jing Lei , Anru R. Zhang , Zihan Zhu

We propose an efficient approach to semidefinite spectral clustering (SSC), which addresses the Frobenius normalization with the positive semidefinite (p.s.d.) constraint for spectral clustering. Compared with the original Frobenius norm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Yan Yan , Chunhua Shen , Hanzi Wang

We study the problem of exact community recovery in general, two-community block models, in the presence of node-attributed $side$ $information$. We allow for a very general side information channel for node attributes, and for pairwise…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Julia Gaudio , Nirmit Joshi

We show {\it semidefinite programming} (SDP) feasibility problem is equivalent to solving a {\it convex hull relaxation} (CHR) for a finite system of quadratic equations. On the one hand, this offers a simple description of SDP. On the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Bahman Kalantari

We study the ternary quadratic problem (TQP), a quadratic optimization problem with linear constraints where the variables take values in $\{0, \pm 1\}$. While semidefinite programming (SDP) techniques are well established for $\{0,1\}$-…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Frank de Meijer , Veronica Piccialli , Renata Sotirov , Antonio M. Sudoso

We study community detection in stochastic block models under pure node-level differential privacy, a stringent notion that protects the participation of an individual together with all of their incident edges. This setting is substantially…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Olga Klopp , Ilias Zadik

The goal of community detection over graphs is to recover underlying labels/attributes of users (e.g., political affiliation) given the connectivity between users (represented by adjacency matrix of a graph). There has been significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohamed Seif , Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti , Ravi Tandon

Understanding and approximating extremal energy states of local Hamiltonians is a central problem in quantum physics and complexity theory. Recent work has focused on developing approximation algorithms for local Hamiltonians, and in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Jun Takahashi , Chaithanya Rayudu , Cunlu Zhou , Robbie King , Kevin Thompson , Ojas Parekh

In semidefinite programming (SDP), unlike in linear programming, Farkas' lemma may fail to prove infeasibility. Here we obtain an exact, short certificate of infeasibility in SDP by an elementary approach: we reformulate any semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-06 Minghui Liu , Gabor Pataki

Recently, a lot of attention has been devoted to finding physically realisable operations that realise as closely as possible certain desired transformations between quantum states, e.g. quantum cloning, teleportation, quantum gates, etc.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 K. Audenaert , B. De Moor

In [13], an Inexact variant of Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming (SDDP) called ISDDP was introduced which uses approximate (instead of exact with SDDP) primal dual solutions of the problems solved in the forward and backward passes of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Vincent Guigues , Renato Monteiro , Benar Svaiter

Super-resolution theory aims to estimate the discrete components lying in a continuous space that constitute a sparse signal with optimal precision. This work investigates the potential of recent super-resolution techniques for spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 M. Ferreira Da Costa , W. Dai

The stochastic block model (SBM) and degree-corrected block model (DCBM) are network models often selected as the fundamental setting in which to analyze the theoretical properties of community detection methods. We consider the problem of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Jonathan Hehir , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Xiaoyue Niu