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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

This paper introduces an efficient first-order method based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to solve semidefinite programs (SDPs) arising from sum-of-squares (SOS) programming. We exploit the sparsity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Building on the blueprint from Goemans and Williamson (1995) for the Max-Cut problem, we construct a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for orthogonally constrained quadratic optimization problems. First, we derive a semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

Motivated by stability analysis of large scale power systems, we describe how the Lasserre (moment-sums of squares, SOS) hierarchy can be used to generate outer approximations of the region of attraction (ROA) of sparse polynomial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Didier Henrion , Matteo Tacchi , Carmen Cardozo , Jean Lasserre

Disjointly constrained multilinear programming concerns the problem of maximizing a multilinear function on the product of finitely many disjoint polyhedra. While maximizing a linear function on a polytope (linear programming) is known to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-14 Kai Kellner

This work presents a novel tensor network algorithm for solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems, Quadratic Unconstrained Discrete Optimization (QUDO) problems, and Tensor Quadratic Unconstrained Discrete…

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

We consider extensions of the Shannon relative entropy, referred to as $f$-divergences.Three classical related computational problems are typically associated with these divergences: (a) estimation from moments, (b) computing normalizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Francis Bach

We devise a scheme for solving an iterative sequence of linear programs (LPs) or second order cone programs (SOCPs) to approximate the optimal value of any semidefinite program (SDP) or sum of squares (SOS) program. The first LP and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall

A widely used method for solving SOS (Sum Of Squares) decomposition problem is to reduce it to the problem of semi-definite programs (SDPs) which can be efficiently solved in theory. In practice, although many SDP solvers can work out some…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Haokun Li , Bican Xia

We consider the quadratic optimization problem $\max_{x \in C}\ x^T Q x + q^T x$, where $C\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n$ is a box and $r := \mathrm{rank}(Q)$ is assumed to be $\mathcal{O}(1)$ (i.e., fixed). We show that this case can be solved in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Milan Hladík , Michal Černý , Miroslav Rada

Semidefinite relaxations are widely used to compute upper bounds on the objective of optimization problems involving noncommutative polynomials. Such optimization problems are prevalent in quantum information. We present an algorithm able…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Denis Rosset

We introduce a new approach aiming at computing approximate optimal designs for multivariate polynomial regressions on compact (semi-algebraic) design spaces. We use the moment-sum-of-squares hierarchy of semidefinite programming problems…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Yohann De Castro , Fabrice Gamboa , Didier Henrion , Roxana Hess , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

This paper studies bilevel polynomial optimization problems. To solve them, we give a method based on polynomial optimization relaxations. Each relaxation is obtained from the Kurash-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions for the lower level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Jiawang Nie , Li Wang , Jane Ye , Suhan Zhong

In this work, we propose an optimization framework for estimating a sparse robust one-dimensional subspace. Our objective is to minimize both the representation error and the penalty, in terms of the l1-norm criterion. Given that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-07 Xiao Ling , Paul Brooks

This paper presents a novel algorithm for constructing a sum-of-squares (SOS) decomposition for positive semi-definite polynomials with rational coefficients. Unlike previous methods that typically yield SOS decompositions with…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zhenbing Zeng , Yong Huang , Lu Yang , Yongsheng Rao

The use of convex relaxations has lately gained considerable interest in Power Systems. These relaxations play a major role in providing global optimality guarantees for non-convex optimization problems. For the Optimal Power Flow (OPF)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Hassan Hijazi , Carleton Coffrin , Pascal Van Hentenryck

In this paper, we propose some new semidefinite relaxations for a class of nonconvex complex quadratic programming problems, which widely appear in the areas of signal processing and power system. By deriving new valid constraints to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Yingzhe Xu , Cheng Lu , Zhibin Deng , Ya-Feng Liu

We present a systematic computational framework for generating positive quadrature rules in multiple dimensions on general geometries. A direct moment-matching formulation that enforces exact integration on polynomial subspaces yields…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Vahid Keshavarzzadeh , Robert M. Kirby , Akil Narayan

When sum-of-squares (SOS) programs are recast as semidefinite programs (SDPs) using the standard monomial basis, the constraint matrices in the SDP possess a structural property that we call \emph{partial orthogonality}. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou