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In contrast with many other convex optimization classes, state-of-the-art semidefinite programming solvers are yet unable to efficiently solve large scale instances. This work aims to reduce this scalability gap by proposing a novel…

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This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

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Vertex Subset Problems (VSPs) are a class of combinatorial optimization problems on graphs where the goal is to find a subset of vertices satisfying a predefined condition. Two prominent approaches for solving VSPs are dynamic programming…

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Quantum computers can solve semidefinite programs (SDPs) using resources that scale better than state-of-the-art classical methods as a function of the problem dimension. At the same time, the known quantum algorithms scale very unfavorably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Fabian Henze , Viet Tran , Birte Ostermann , Richard Kueng , Timo de Wolff , David Gross

We investigate a class of general combinatorial graph problems, including MAX-CUT and community detection, reformulated as quadratic objectives over nonconvex constraints and solved via the alternating direction method of multipliers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Chuangchuang Sun

Finding a maximum independent set is a fundamental NP-hard problem that is used in many real-world applications. Given an unweighted graph, this problem asks for a maximum cardinality set of pairwise non-adjacent vertices. Some of the most…

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Support vector machines (SVMs) are well-studied supervised learning models for binary classification. In many applications, large amounts of samples can be cheaply and easily obtained. What is often a costly and error-prone process is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Veronica Piccialli , Jan Schwiddessen , Antonio M. Sudoso

The Quantum Max Cut (QMC) problem has emerged as a test-problem for designing approximation algorithms for local Hamiltonian problems. In this paper we attack this problem using the algebraic structure of QMC, in particular the relationship…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Adam Bene Watts , Anirban Chowdhury , Aidan Epperly , J. William Helton , Igor Klep

We introduce a quantum-inspired approximation algorithm for MaxCut based on low-depth Clifford circuits. We start by showing that the solution unitaries found by the adaptive quantum approximation optimization algorithm (ADAPT-QAOA) for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Manuel H. Muñoz-Arias , Stefanos Kourtis , Alexandre Blais

We consider the problem of learning the structure of undirected graphical models with bounded treewidth, within the maximum likelihood framework. This is an NP-hard problem and most approaches consider local search techniques. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 K. S. Sesh Kumar , Francis Bach

In this paper we consider a class of optimization problems with a strongly convex objective function and the feasible set given by an intersection of a simple convex set with a set given by a number of linear equality and inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Alexey Chernov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

In computer science, there exist a large number of optimization problems defined on graphs, that is to find a best node state configuration or a network structure such that the designed objective function is optimized under some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yaoxin Li , Jing Liu , Guozheng Lin , Yueyuan Hou , Muyun Mou , Jiang Zhang

Graph matching---aligning a pair of graphs to minimize their edge disagreements---has received wide-spread attention from both theoretical and applied communities over the past several decades, including combinatorics, computer vision, and…

We propose a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm for the \textsc{Max-Cut} problem on embedded 1-planar graphs parameterized by the crossing number $k$ of the given embedding. A graph is called 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane with…

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In this paper, we propose a branch-and-bound algorithm for solving nonconvex quadratic programming problems with box constraints (BoxQP). Our approach combines existing tools, such as semidefinite programming (SDP) bounds strengthened…

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This work addresses the block-diagonal semidefinite program (SDP) relaxations for the clique number of the Paley graphs. The size of the maximal clique (clique number) of a graph is a classic NP-complete problem; a Paley graph is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Vladimir A. Kobzar , Krishnan Mody

Weight optimization of frame structures with continuous cross-section parametrization is a challenging non-convex problem that has traditionally been solved by local optimization techniques. Here, we exploit its inherent semi-algebraic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Marek Tyburec , Michal Kočvara , Martin Kružík

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

Many machine learning applications require outputs that satisfy complex, dynamic constraints. This task is particularly challenging in Graph Neural Network models due to the variable output sizes of graph-structured data. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ahmed Rashwan , Keith Briggs , Chris Budd , Lisa Kreusser

We establish the optimal nonergodic sublinear convergence rate of the proximal point algorithm for maximal monotone inclusion problems. First, the optimal bound is formulated by the performance estimation framework, resulting in an infinite…

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