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Despite the numerous uses of semidefinite programming (SDP) and its universal solvability via interior point methods (IPMs), it is rarely applied to practical large-scale problems. This mainly owes to the computational cost of IPMs that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Yifan Ran , Stefan Vlaski , Wei Dai

Chordal and factor-width decomposition methods for semidefinite programming and polynomial optimization have recently enabled the analysis and control of large-scale linear systems and medium-scale nonlinear systems. Chordal decomposition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou

In this paper, we show a way to exploit sparsity in the problem data in a primal-dual potential reduction method for solving a class of semidefinite programs. When the problem data is sparse, the dual variable is also sparse, but the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Gun Srijuntongsiri , Stephen A. Vavasis

Polynomial optimization problems are infinite-dimensional, nonconvex, NP-hard, and are often handled in practice with the moment-sums of squares hierarchy of semidefinite programming bounds. We consider problems where the objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Igor Klep , Victor Magron , Tobias Metzlaff , Jie Wang

We introduce PyCFTBoot, a wrapper designed to reduce the barrier to entry in conformal bootstrap calculations that require semidefinite programming. Symengine and SDPB are used for the most intensive symbolic and numerical steps…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Connor Behan

The crossing equations of a conformal field theory can be systematically truncated to a finite, closed system of polynomial equations. In certain cases, solutions of the truncated equations place strict bounds on the space of all unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Thomas Hartman , Amirhossein Tajdini

We propose an integrable bootstrap framework for the computation of correlation functions for superstrings in $AdS_3\times S^3\times T^4$ backgrounds supported by an arbitrary mixture or Ramond-Ramond and Neveu-Schwarz-Neveu-Schwarz fluxes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Burkhard Eden , Dennis le Plat , Alessandro Sfondrini

We develop a bootstrap strategy to obtain the six-point function of supergravitons in $AdS_5\times S^5$ from symmetry constraints and consistency conditions. Compared to previous bootstrap algorithms, a novel feature is the use of lightcone…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-17 Vasco Goncalves , Maria Nocchi , Xinan Zhou

We generalize the reduction mechanism for linear programming problems and semidefinite programming problems from [arXiv:1410.8816] in two ways 1) relaxing the requirement of affineness and 2) extending to fractional optimization problems.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Gábor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta , Aurko Roy

Random projection, a dimensionality reduction technique, has been found useful in recent years for reducing the size of optimization problems. In this paper, we explore the use of sparse sub-gaussian random projections to approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Monse Guedes-Ayala , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Lars Schewe , Akiko Takeda

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are powerful theoretical tools that have been studied for over two decades, but their practical use remains limited due to computational difficulties in solving large-scale, realistic-sized problems. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Richard Y. Zhang , Javad Lavaei

This paper explores the numerical conformal bootstrap in general spacetime dimensions through the lens of a distinct category of analytic functionals, previously employed in two-dimensional studies. We extend the application of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-30 Kausik Ghosh , Zechuan Zheng

Statistical inference problems arising within signal processing, data mining, and machine learning naturally give rise to hard combinatorial optimization problems. These problems become intractable when the dimensionality of the data is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-27 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

We employ chordal decomposition to reformulate a large and sparse semidefinite program (SDP), either in primal or dual standard form, into an equivalent SDP with smaller positive semidefinite (PSD) constraints. In contrast to previous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Paul Goulart , Andrew Wynn

In this long overdue second installment, we continue to develop the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=4$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions via an analysis of the correlation function of four stress-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Christopher Beem , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

Infrared fixed points of gauge theories provide intriguing targets for the modern conformal bootstrap program. In this work we provide some preliminary evidence that a family of gauged fermionic CFTs saturate bootstrap bounds and can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-29 Zhijin Li , David Poland

In this paper, we examine the validity of non-parametric spatial bootstrap as a procedure to quantify errors in estimates of N-point correlation functions. We do this by means of a small simulation study with simple point process models and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-16 Ji Meng Loh

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) often arise in relaxations of some NP-hard problems, and if the solution of the SDP obeys certain rank constraints, the relaxation will be tight. Decomposition methods based on chordal sparsity have already been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Jared Miller , Yang Zheng , Biel Roig-Solvas , Mario Sznaier , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Solving semidefinite programs (SDP) in a short time is the key to managing various mathematical optimization problems. The matrix-completion primal-dual interior-point method (MC-PDIPM) extracts a sparse structure of input SDP by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Makoto Yamashita , Kazuhide Nakata

We develop a novel numerical bootstrap for unitary, crossing-symmetric conformal field theories, focusing on moment observables defined as weighted averages over conformal data. Providing a global and coarse-grained probe of the operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Li-Yuan Chiang , David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg