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Generalized semi-infinite programs (GSIP) are a class of mathematical optimization problems that generalize semi-infinite programs, which have a finite number of decision variables and infinite constraints. Mitsos et al. (Mitsos and…
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The ability (and inability) of large language models (LLMs) to perform arithmetic tasks has been the subject of much theoretical and practical debate. We show that LLMs are frequently able to correctly and confidently predict the first…
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Mixed-integer (MI) quadratic models subject to quadratic constraints, known as All-Quadratic MI Programs, constitute a challenging class of NP-complete optimization problems. The particular scenario of unbounded integers defines a subclass…
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Recently, there has been significant interest in convex relaxations of the optimal power flow (OPF) problem. A semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation globally solves many OPF problems. However, there exist practical problems for which…
Regularization techniques are widely employed in optimization-based approaches for solving ill-posed inverse problems in data analysis and scientific computing. These methods are based on augmenting the objective with a penalty function,…
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We introduce a comprehensive framework for analyzing convergence rates for infinite dimensional linear programming problems (LPs) within the context of the moment-sum-of-squares hierarchy. Our primary focus is on extending the existing…
This paper focuses on a class of zero-norm composite optimization problems. For this class of nonconvex nonsmooth problems, we establish the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz property of exponent being a half for its objective function under a suitable…
Chance-constrained programs (CCP) represent a trade-off between conservatism and robustness in optimization. In many CCPs, one optimizes an objective under a probabilistic constraint continuously parameterized by a random vector $\xi$. In…
This note provides another proof for the {\em convexity} ({\em strict convexity}) of $\log \det ( I + KX^{-1} )$ over the positive definite cone for any given positive semidefinite matrix $K \succeq 0$ (positive definite matrix $K \succ 0$)…
In this paper, we are concerned with geometric constraint solvers, i.e., with programs that find one or more solutions of a geometric constraint problem. If no solution exists, the solver is expected to announce that no solution has been…
This paper considers stochastic convex optimization problems with two sets of constraints: (a) deterministic constraints on the domain of the optimization variable, which are difficult to project onto; and (b) deterministic or stochastic…
In this paper, we investigate the mixed-integer nonlinear set with box constraints $X = \{(w,x)\in R\times Z^n:w\leq f(a^Tx),0\leq x\leq \mu\}$, where $f$ is a univariate concave function, $a\in R^n$, and $\mu\in Z^n_{++}$. This set arises…
Approximations of functions with finite data often do not respect certain "structural" properties of the functions. For example, if a given function is non-negative, a polynomial approximation of the function is not necessarily also…
An influential 1990 paper of Hochbaum and Shanthikumar made it common wisdom that "convex separable optimization is not much harder than linear optimization" [JACM 1990]. We exhibit two fundamental classes of mixed integer (linear) programs…