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The Moment-SOS hierarchy initially introduced in optimization in 2000, is based on the theory of the K-moment problem and its dual counterpart, polynomials that are positive on K. It turns out that this methodology can be also applied to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Jean Lasserre

This paper studies the polynomial optimization problem whose feasible set is a union of several basic closed semialgebraic sets. We propose a unified hierarchy of Moment-SOS relaxations to solve it globally. Under some assumptions, we prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Jiawang Nie , Linghao Zhang

We show that if a system of degree-$k$ polynomial constraints on~$n$ Boolean variables has a Sums-of-Squares (SOS) proof of unsatisfiability with at most~$s$ many monomials, then it also has one whose degree is of the order of the square…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Albert Atserias , Tuomas Hakoniemi

The moment-SOS hierarchy is a widely applicable framework to address polynomial optimization problems over basic semi-algebraic sets based on positivity certificates of polynomial. Recent works show that the convergence rate of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Hoang Anh Tran , Toh Kim-Chuan

In this paper, we study the sparsity-adapted complex moment-Hermitian sum of squares (moment-HSOS) hierarchy for complex polynomial optimization problems, where the sparsity includes correlative sparsity and term sparsity. We compare the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Jie Wang , Victor Magron

Global polynomial optimization is an important tool across applied mathematics, with many applications in operations research, engineering, and physical sciences. In various settings, the polynomials depend on external parameters that may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Richard L. Zhu , Mathias Oster , Yuehaw Khoo

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

We formulate a class of nonlinear {evolution} partial differential equations (PDEs) as linear optimization problems on moments of positive measures supported on infinite-dimensional vector spaces. Using sums of squares (SOS) representations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Didier Henrion , Maria Infusino , Salma Kuhlmann , Victor Vinnikov

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

In recent years, techniques based on convex optimization and real algebra that produce converging hierarchies of lower bounds for polynomial minimization problems have gained much popularity. At their heart, these hierarchies rely crucially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall

This paper proposes a real moment-HSOS hierarchy for complex polynomial optimization problems with real coefficients. We show that this hierarchy provides the same sequence of lower bounds as the complex analogue, yet is much cheaper to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jie Wang , Victor Magron

This paper studies the hierarchy of sparse matrix Moment-SOS relaxations for solving sparse polynomial optimization problems with matrix constraints. First, we prove a sufficient and necessary condition for the sparse hierarchy to be tight.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Jiawang Nie , Zheng Qu , Xindong Tang , Linghao Zhang

The moment-sum of squares hierarchy by Lasserre has become an established technique for solving polynomial optimization problems. It provides a monotonically increasing series of tight bounds, but has well-known scalability limitations. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Daria Shaydurova , Volker Kaibel , Sebastian Sager

Lasserre's moment-SOS hierarchy consists of approximating instances of the generalized moment problem (GMP) with moment relaxations and sums-of-squares (SOS) strenghtenings that boil down to convex semidefinite programming (SDP) problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Matteo Tacchi

We compare four key hierarchies for solving Constrained Polynomial Optimization Problems (CPOP): Sum of Squares (SOS), Sum of Diagonally Dominant Polynomials (SDSOS), Sum of Nonnegative Circuits (SONC), and the Sherali Adams (SA)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Adam Kurpisz , Timo de Wolff

The Sum-of-Squares (SoS) hierarchy is a powerful framework for polynomial optimization and proof complexity, offering tight semidefinite relaxations that capture many classical algorithms. Despite its broad applicability, several works have…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Alex Bortolotti , Monaldo Mastrolilli , Marilena Palomba , Luis Felipe Vargas

In this paper, we address the effective degree bound problem for Lasserre's hierarchy of moment-sum-of-squares (SOS) relaxations in polynomial optimization involving $n$ variables. We assume that the first $n$ equality constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Zheng Hua , Zheng Qu

This paper establishes new Positivstellens\"atze for polynomials that are positive on sets defined by polynomial matrix inequalities (PMIs). We extend the classical Handelman and Krivine-Stengle theorems from the scalar inequality setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Feng Guo

We consider a new hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations for the general polynomial optimization problem $(P):\:f^{\ast}=\min \{\,f(x):x\in K\,\}$ on a compact basic semi-algebraic set $K\subset\R^n$. This hierarchy combines some advantages…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Toh Kim-Chuan , Yang Shouguang

We introduce an S.o.S hierarchy of lower bounds for a polynomial optimization problem whose constraint is expressed as a matrix polynomial semidefinite inequality. Our approach involves utilizing a penalty function framework to directly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Hoang Anh Tran , Kim-Chuan Toh