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We consider semidefinite programs (SDPs) with equality constraints. The variable to be optimized is a positive semidefinite matrix $X$ of size $n$. Following the Burer--Monteiro approach, we optimize a factor $Y$ of size $n \times p$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Nicolas Boumal , Vladislav Voroninski , Afonso S. Bandeira

Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) are a fundamental class of optimization problems. In a QCQP, we are asked to minimize a (possibly nonconvex) quadratic function subject to a number of (possibly nonconvex) quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Fatma Kılınç-Karzan , Alex L. Wang

Recent results in compressed sensing show that, under certain conditions, the sparsest solution to an underdetermined set of linear equations can be recovered by solving a linear program. These results either rely on computing sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-11-02 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Laurent El Ghaoui

We consider the global optimization of nonconvex quadratic programs and mixed-integer quadratic programs. We present a family of convex quadratic relaxations which are derived by convexifying nonconvex quadratic functions through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Carlos J. Nohra , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis

Semidefinite programming (SDP) provides a principled framework for convex relaxations of nonconvex geometric constraints in motion planning, yet existing solvers are too computationally expensive for real-time control, particularly on…

Pseudoinverses are ubiquitous tools for handling over- and under-determined systems of equations. For computational efficiency, sparse pseudoinverses are desirable. Recently, sparse left and right pseudoinverses were introduced, using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Victor K. Fuentes , Marcia Fampa , Jon Lee

Boolean quadratic optimization problems occur in a number of applications. Their mixed integer-continuous nature is challenging, since it is inherently NP-hard. For this motivation, semidefinite programming relaxations (SDR's) are proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-20 V. Cerone , S. M. Fosson , D. Regruto

We introduce an extension of Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming (SDDP) to solve stochastic convex dynamic programming equations. This extension applies when some or all primal and dual subproblems to be solved along the forward and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Vincent Guigues

In this paper, we concentrate on a particular category of quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP): nonconvex QCQP with one equality constraint. This type of QCQP problem optimizes a quadratic objective under a fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Licheng Zhao , Rui Zhou , Wenqiang Pu

Recent advances in the efficiency and robustness of algorithms solving convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems motivate developing techniques for creating convex quadratic relaxations that, although more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 William R. Strahl , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

We produce approximation bounds on a semidefinite programming relaxation for sparse principal component analysis. These bounds control approximation ratios for tractable statistics in hypothesis testing problems where data points are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach , Laurent El Ghaoui

In this paper, we study some bounds for nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programs. We propose two types of bounds for quadratically constrained quadratic programs, quadratic and cubic bounds. For quadratic bounds, we use affine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Moslem Zamani

Quadratic constrained quadratic programming problems often occur in various fields such as engineering practice, management science, and network communication. This article mainly studies a non convex quadratic programming problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Bo Zhang , YueLin Gao , Xia Liu , XiaoLi Huang

This paper studies robust solutions and semidefinite linear programming (SDP) relaxations of a class of convex polynomial programs in the face of data uncertainty. The class of convex programs, called robust SOS-convex programs, includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-05 V. Jeyakumar , G. Li , J. Vicente-Perez

In this paper, we present new convex relaxations for nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems. While recent research has focused on strengthening convex relaxations using reformulation-linearization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Rujun Jiang , Duan Li

Sparse and convolutional constraints form a natural prior for many optimization problems that arise from physical processes. Detecting motifs in speech and musical passages, super-resolving images, compressing videos, and reconstructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Hilton Bristow , Simon Lucey

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

Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) are a highly expressive class of nonconvex optimization problems. While QCQPs are NP-hard in general, they admit a natural convex relaxation via the standard (Shor) semidefinite program…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Alex L. Wang , Fatma Kilinc-Karzan

In recent years, many estimation problems in robotics have been shown to be solvable to global optimality using their semidefinite relaxations. However, the runtime complexity of off-the-shelf semidefinite programming (SDP) solvers is up to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Frederike Dümbgen , Connor Holmes , Timothy D. Barfoot

We present a novel, practical, and provable approach for solving diagonally constrained semi-definite programming (SDP) problems at scale using accelerated non-convex programming. Our algorithm non-trivially combines acceleration motions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Junhyung Lyle Kim , JA Lara Benitez , Mohammad Taha Toghani , Cameron Wolfe , Zhiwei Zhang , Anastasios Kyrillidis