Sum-of-squares hierarchies for polynomial optimization and the Christoffel--Darboux kernel

L Slot - SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2022 - SIAM
Consider the problem of minimizing a polynomial f over a compact semialgebraic set
X⊆R^n. Lasserre introduces hierarchies of semidefinite programs to approximate this hard …

Sum-of-squares hierarchies for binary polynomial optimization

L Slot, M Laurent - Mathematical Programming, 2023 - Springer
We consider the sum-of-squares hierarchy of approximations for the problem of minimizing a
polynomial f over the boolean hypercube B^ n={0, 1\}^ n B n= 0, 1 n. This hierarchy provides …

Relaxations for binary polynomial optimization via signed certificates

L Xu, L Liberti - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.13447, 2024 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of minimizing a polynomial $ f $ over the binary hypercube. We
show that, for a specific set of polynomials, their binary non-negativity can be checked in a …

Tight Sum-of-Squares lower bounds for binary polynomial optimization problems

A Kurpisz, S Leppänen, M Mastrolilli - ACM Transactions on Computation …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
For binary polynomial optimization problems of degree 2d with n variables Sakaue, Takeda,
Kim, and Ito proved that the th semidefinite (SDP) relaxation in the SoS/Lasserre hierarchy of …

Tight sum-of-squares lower bounds for binary polynomial optimization problems

A Kurpisz, S Leppänen, M Mastrolilli - arxiv preprint arxiv:1605.03019, 2016 - arxiv.org
We give two results concerning the power of the Sum-of-Squares (SoS)/Lasserre hierarchy.
For binary polynomial optimization problems of degree $2 d $ and an odd number of …

Asymptotic analysis of semidefinite bounds for polynomial optimization and independent sets in geometric hypergraphs

L Slot - 2022 - research.tilburguniversity.edu
The goal of a mathematical optimization problem is to maximize an objective (or minimize a
cost) under a given set of rules, called constraints. Optimization has many applications, both …

Binary quadratic optimization problems that are difficult to solve by conic relaxations

S Kim, M Kojima - Discrete Optimization, 2017 - Elsevier
We study conic relaxations including semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations and
doubly nonnegative programming (DNN) relaxations to find the optimal values of binary …

Computing sparse Fourier sum of squares on finite abelian groups in quasi-linear time

J Yang, K Ye, L Zhi - Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 2024 - Elsevier
The problem of verifying the nonnegativity of a function on a finite abelian group is a long-
standing challenging problem. The basic representation theory of finite groups indicates that …

SoS certification for symmetric quadratic functions and its connection to constrained Boolean hypercube optimization

A Kurpisz, A Potechin, ES Wirth - arxiv preprint arxiv:2107.04100, 2021 - arxiv.org
We study the rank of the Sum of Squares (SoS) hierarchy over the Boolean hypercube for
Symmetric Quadratic Functions (SQFs) in $ n $ variables with roots placed in points $ k-1 …

An Effective Positivstellensatz over the Rational Numbers for Finite Semialgebraic Sets

L Baldi, T Krick, B Mourrain - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.04845, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study the problem of representing multivariate polynomials with rational coefficients,
which are nonnegative and strictly positive on finite semialgebraic sets, using rational sums …