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We propose a new homotopy-based conditional gradient method for solving convex optimization problems with a large number of simple conic constraints. Instances of this template naturally appear in semidefinite programming problems arising…

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Conic programs arise broadly in physics, quantum information, machine learning, and engineering, many of which are defined over sparse graphs. Although such problems can be solved in polynomial time using classical interior-point solvers,…

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Real-time trajectory optimization for nonlinear constrained autonomous systems is critical and typically performed by CPU-based sequential solvers. Specifically, reliance on global sparse linear algebra or the serial nature of dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yilin Zou , Zhong Zhang , Maxime Robic , Fanghua Jiang

We show how to efficiently compute the derivative (when it exists) of the solution map of log-log convex programs (LLCPs). These are nonconvex, nonsmooth optimization problems with positive variables that become convex when the variables,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Akshay Agrawal , Stephen Boyd

This paper studies a fundamental problem in convex optimization, which is to solve semidefinite programming (SDP) with high accuracy. This paper follows from the existing robust SDP-based interior point method analysis due to [Huang, Jiang,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Baihe Huang , Shunhua Jiang , Zhao Song , Runzhou Tao , Ruizhe Zhang

A semidefinite program (SDP) is a particular kind of convex optimization problem with applications in operations research, combinatorial optimization, quantum information science, and beyond. In this work, we propose variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Dhrumil Patel , Patrick J. Coles , Mark M. Wilde

We propose the algorithm that solves the symmetric cone programs (SCPs) by iteratively calling the projection and rescaling methods the algorithms for solving exceptional cases of SCP. Although our algorithm can solve SCPs by itself, we…

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We design and analyze primal-dual, feasible interior-point algorithms (IPAs) employing full Newton steps to solve convex optimization problems in standard conic form. Unlike most nonsymmetric cone programming methods, the algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Dávid Papp , Anita Varga

Convex Quadratic Programs (QPs) have come to play a central role in the computation of control action for constrained dynamical systems. In this paper, we present a novel Homogeneous QP (HQP) formulation which is obtained by embedding the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Arvind U Raghunathan

Primal-dual interior-point methods solve constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances with speed and robustness. Their solutions are also efficiently differentiable with respect to the problem data through the implicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jon Arrizabalaga , Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

Iterative optimization algorithms depend on access to information about the objective function. In a differentiable programming framework, this information, such as gradients, can be automatically derived from the computational graph. We…

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We introduce the online stochastic Convex Programming (CP) problem, a very general version of stochastic online problems which allows arbitrary concave objectives and convex feasibility constraints. Many well-studied problems like online…

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We propose a Jacobi-style distributed algorithm to solve convex, quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs), which arise from a broad range of applications. While small to medium-sized convex QCQPs can be solved efficiently by…

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We propose a gradient-based method for quadratic programming problems with a single linear constraint and bounds on the variables. Inspired by the GPCG algorithm for bound-constrained convex quadratic programming [J.J. Mor\'e and G.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Daniela di Serafino , Gerardo Toraldo , Marco Viola , Jesse Barlow

Quadratic programming (QP) is the most widely applied category of problems in nonlinear programming. Many applications require real-time/fast solutions, though not necessarily with high precision. Existing methods either involve matrix…

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By introducing a quadratic perturbation to the canonical dual of the maxcut problem, we transform the integer programming problem into a concave maximization problem over a convex positive domain under some circumstances, which can be…

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We investigate the possibility of solving continuous non-convex optimization problems using a network of interacting quantum optical oscillators. We propose a native encoding of continuous variables in analog signals associated with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Farhad Khosravi , Ugur Yildiz , Artur Scherer , Pooya Ronagh

In this paper, we consider the nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) with one quadratic constraint. By employing the conjugate gradient method, an efficient algorithm is proposed to solve QCQP that exploits the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Akram Taati , Maziar Salahi

We present a unified quantum-classical framework for addressing NP-complete constrained combinatorial optimization problems, generalizing the recently proposed Quantum Conic Programming (QCP) approach. Accordingly, it inherits many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Lennart Binkowski , Tobias J. Osborne , Marvin Schwiering , René Schwonnek , Timo Ziegler

Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs (QCQPs) are an important class of optimization problems with diverse real-world applications. In this work, we propose a variational quantum algorithm for general QCQPs. By encoding the variables…

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