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We introduce a cutting-plane framework for nonconvex quadratic programs (QPs) that progressively tightens convex relaxations. Our approach leverages the doubly nonnegative (DNN) relaxation to compute strong lower bounds and generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Zheng Qu , Defeng Sun , Jintao Xu

Convex separable quadratic optimization problems occur in many practical applications. In this paper, based on an iterative resolution scheme of the KKT system, we develop an efficient method for solving a quadratic programming problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Shaoze Li , Junhao Wu , Cheng Lu , Zhibin Deng , Shu-Cherng Fang

We consider a new semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the symmetric traveling salesman problem (TSP) that may be obtained via an SDP relaxation of the more general quadratic assignment problem (QAP). We show that the new relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-02-12 Etienne de Klerk , Dmitrii V. Pasechnik , Renata Sotirov

In this paper, we propose two algorithms for nonlinear semi-infinite semi-definite programs with infinitely many convex inequality constraints, called SISDP for short. A straightforward approach to the SISDP is to use classical methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Takayuki Okuno , Masao Fukushima

The quadratic shortest path problem is the problem of finding a path in a directed graph such that the sum of interaction costs over all pairs of arcs on the path is minimized. We derive several semidefinite programming relaxations for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Hao Hu , Renata Sotirov

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a fundamental convex optimization problem with wide-ranging applications. However, solving large-scale instances remains computationally challenging due to the high cost of solving linear systems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Hantao Nie , Dong An , Zaiwen Wen

We consider the global optimization of nonconvex mixed-integer quadratic programs with linear equality constraints. In particular, we present a new class of convex quadratic relaxations which are derived via quadratic cuts. To construct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Carlos J. Nohra , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis

Semidefinite programs are generally challenging to solve due to their high dimensionality. Burer and Monteiro developed a non-convex approach to solve linear SDP problems by applying its low rank property. Their approach is fast because…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Tianyun Tang , Kim-Chuan Toh

The shortest Disjoint Path problem (SDPP) requires us to find pairwise vertex disjoint paths between k designated pairs of terminal vertices such that the sum of the path lengths is minimum. The focus here is on SDPP restricted to planar…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Srijan Chakraborty , Samir Datta

In this work, we consider the low rank decomposition (SDPR) of general convex semidefinite programming problems (SDP) that contain both a positive semidefinite matrix and a nonnegative vector as variables. We develop a rank-support-adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Tianyun Tang , Kim-Chuan Toh

The $k$-vertex disjoint paths problem is one of the most studied problems in algorithmic graph theory. In 1994, Schrijver proved that the problem can be solved in polynomial time for every fixed $k$ when restricted to the class of planar…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Saeed Amiri , Ali Golshani , Stephan Kreutzer , Sebastian Siebertz

We consider a parametric convex quadratic programming, CQP, relaxation for the quadratic knapsack problem, QKP. This relaxation maintains partial quadratic information from the original QKP by perturbing the objective function to obtain a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Marcia Fampa , Daniela Cristina Lubke , Fei Wang , Henry Wolkowicz

The well-known $k$-disjoint path problem ($k$-DPP) asks for pairwise vertex-disjoint paths between $k$ specified pairs of vertices $(s_i, t_i)$ in a given graph, if they exist. The decision version of the shortest $k$-DPP asks for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Samir Datta , Siddharth Iyer , Raghav Kulkarni , Anish Mukherjee

We introduce a novel method for clustering using a semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the Max k-Cut problem. The approach is based on a new methodology for rounding the solution of an SDP relaxation using iterated linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Pedro Felzenszwalb , Caroline Klivans , Alice Paul

In this paper, we consider an SDP relaxation of the quadratic knapsack problem (QKP). After using the Burer-Monteiro factorization, we get a non-convex optimization problem, whose feasible region is an algebraic variety. Although there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Tianyun Tang , Kim-Chuan Toh

It is well-known that by adding integrality constraints to the semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the max-cut problem, the resulting integer semidefinite program is an exact formulation of the problem. In this paper we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Frank de Meijer , Renata Sotirov

We study the maximum $k$-colorable subgraph (M$k$CS) problem, which consists in finding a largest $k$-colorable induced subgraph in a given graph. We consider a Semidefinite Programming (SDP) relaxation for the M$k$CS problem and regard its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Mathijs Barkel , Renata Sotirov

For general quadratically-constrained quadratic programming (QCQP), we propose a parabolic relaxation described with convex quadratic constraints. An interesting property of the parabolic relaxation is that the original non-convex feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Ramtin Madani , Mersedeh Ashraphijuo , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Alper Atamturk

Semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations have been intensively used for solving discrete quadratic optimization problems, in particular in the binary case. For the general non-convex integer case with box constraints, the branch-and-bound…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Christoph Buchheim , Maribel Montenegro , Angelika Wiegele

Consider the problem of minimizing a quadratic objective subject to quadratic equations. We study the semialgebraic region of objective functions for which this problem is solved by its semidefinite relaxation. For the Euclidean distance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Diego Cifuentes , Corey Harris , Bernd Sturmfels