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most citedChordal-TSSOS: a moment-SOS hierarchy that exploits term sparsity with chordal extension

84 citations · 342 across the 90 of their papers we have counts for

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105 papers

quant-ph2026

The bulk spectral gap is certifiable from above but uncomputable from below

Xiangling Xu, Matthias Schötz, Jie Wang +4

Determining spectral gaps in the thermodynamic limit is a central challenge in quantum many-body physics. When a fixed boundary condition is imposed, this problem is undecidable: n…

math.OC2026

Sums of squares in polynomial time

Nikolas Gärtner, Victor Magron, Frank Vallentin

In this paper, we analyze the bit complexity of deciding whether a given polynomial can be represented as a sum of squares of polynomials. We show that the weak membership problem…

quant-ph2026

Quantitative semidefinite certificates for ground-state energies of Pauli Hamiltonians

Igor Klep, Nando Leijenhorst, Victor Magron

The -local Hamiltonian problem is a central model for quantum many-body systems and Hamiltonian complexity. Semidefinite programming and noncommutative sum-of-squares hierarchie…

math.OC2026

Duality attainment and strict feasibility of the generalized moment problem and its relaxations

Sami Halaseh, Victor Magron, Mateusz Skomra

The generalized moment problem (GMP) is an infinite dimensional linear problem over the cone of finite nonnegative Borel measures. When a GMP instance involves finitely many polyno…

math.OC2026

Robust self-testing with CHSH mod 3

Igor Klep, Nando Leijenhorst, Victor Magron

The CHSH mod 3 Bell inequality is a natural testbed for higher-dimensional quantum nonlocality, yet its maximal quantum violation and self-testing properties have remained unresolv…

quant-ph2026

Scalable Ground-State Certification of Quantum Spin Systems via Structured Noncommutative Polynomial Optimization

Jie Wang, David Jansen, Irénée Frerot +3

A fundamental challenge in quantum physics is determining the ground-state properties of many-body systems. Whereas standard variational approaches posit a wave-function ansatz and…

math.OC2026

The Effective Lasserre's Perturbative Positivstellensatz

Igor Klep, Victor Magron, Matthias Schötz

We study sum-of-squares (SOS) certificates for nonnegative polynomials on and their implications for polynomial optimization over unbounded domains. Building on…

quant-ph2025

Certified bounds on optimization problems in quantum theory

Younes Naceur, Jie Wang, Victor Magron +1

Semidefinite relaxations of polynomial optimization have become a central tool for addressing the non-convex optimization problems over non-commutative operators that are ubiquitou…

quant-ph2025

Inclusion constants for free spectrahedra with applications to quantum incompatibility

Andreas Bluhm, Eric Evert, Igor Klep +2

Building on the matrix cube problem, inclusions of free spectrahedra have been used successfully to obtain relaxations of hard spectrahedral inclusion problems. The quality of such…

math.OC2025

Finite Convergence of the Moment-SOS Hierarchy on the Product of Spheres

Sami Halaseh, Victor Magron, Mateusz Skomra

We study the polynomial optimization problem of minimizing a multihomogeneous polynomial over the product of spheres. This polynomial optimization problem models the tensor optimiz…

math.OC2025

Exploiting Term Sparsity in Symmetry-Adapted Basis for Polynomial Optimization

Igor Klep, Victor Magron, Tobias Metzlaff +1

Polynomial optimization problems are infinite-dimensional, nonconvex, NP-hard, and are often handled in practice with the moment-sums of squares hierarchy of semidefinite programmi…

math.OC2025

Moment-SOS hierarchies for arrow-type polynomial matrix inequalities with applications to structural optimization

Marouan Handa, Marek Tyburec, Giovanni Fantuzzi +2

The Arrow Decomposition (AD) technique, initially introduced in [Mathematical Programming 190(1-2) (2021), pp 105-134], demonstrated superior scalability over the classical chordal…

math.OC2025

Mixtures Closest to a Given Measure: A Semidefinite Programming Approach

Srećko Đurašinović, Jean-Bernard Lasserre, Victor Magron

Mixture models, such as Gaussian mixture models, are widely used in machine learning to represent complex data distributions. A key challenge, especially in high-dimensional settin…

math.OC2025

Approximating the order 2 quantum Wasserstein distance using the moment-SOS hierarchy

Saroj Prasad Chhatoi, Victor Magron

Optimal transport theory has recently been extended to quantum settings, where the density matrices generalize the probability measures. In this paper, we study the computational a…

math.OC2025

Convergence rates for polynomial optimization on set products

Victor Magron

We consider polynomial optimization problems on Cartesian products of basic compact semialgebraic sets. The solution of such problems can be approximated as closely as desired by h…

math.OC2025

Detecting Destabilizing Nonlinearities in Absolute Stability Analysis of Discrete-Time Feedback Systems

Hibiki Gyotoku, Tsuyoshi Yuno, Yoshio Ebihara +3

This paper is concerned with the absolute stability analysis of discrete-time feedback systems with slope-restricted nonlinearities. By employing static O'Shea-Zames-Falb multiplie…

math.OC2025

Leveraging Christoffel-Darboux Kernels to Strengthen Moment-SOS Relaxations

Srećko Ðurašinović, Perla Azzi, Jean-Bernard Lasserre +3

The classical Moment-SOS hierarchy allows one to approximate the global minimum of a polynomial optimization problem through semidefinite relaxations of increasing accuracy. For ma…

math.OC2025

On the Complexity of p-Order Cone Programs

Víctor Blanco, Victor Magron, Miguel Martínez-Antón

This manuscript explores novel complexity results for the feasibility problem over -order cones, extending the foundational work of Porkolab and Khachiyan. By leveraging the int…

quant-ph2024

Positivity of state, trace, and moment polynomials, and applications in quantum information

Felix Huber, Victor Magron, Jurij Volčič

State, trace, and moment polynomials are polynomial expressions in several operator or random variables and positive functionals on their products (states, traces or expectations).…

math.OC2024

On Dual of LMIs for Absolute Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Feedback Systems with Static O'Shea-Zames-Falb Multipliers

Hibiki Gyotoku, Tsuyoshi Yuno, Yoshio Ebihara +3

This study investigates the absolute stability criteria based on the framework of integral quadratic constraint (IQC) for feedback systems with slope-restricted nonlinearities. In…

cs.LG2024

Verifying Properties of Binary Neural Networks Using Sparse Polynomial Optimization

Jianting Yang, Srećko Ðurašinović, Jean-Bernard Lasserre +2

This paper explores methods for verifying the properties of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), focusing on robustness against adversarial attacks. Despite their lower computational and…

math.OC2024

Slow convergence of the moment-SOS hierarchy for an elementary polynomial optimization problem

Didier Henrion, Adrien Le Franc, Victor Magron

We describe a parametric univariate quadratic optimization problem for which the moment-SOS hierarchy has finite but increasingly slow convergence when the parameter tends to its l…

math.OC2024

LMI hierarchies for stability analysis of ReLU feedback systems

Victor Magron, Yoshio Ebihara, Shingo Nishinaka +4

We consider the stability analysis of feedback systems with rectified linear unit (ReLU) activations, and model this problem with polynomial optimization. Stability can be certifie…

math.OC2024

Upper bound hierarchies for noncommutative polynomial optimization

Igor Klep, Victor Magron, Gaël Massé +1

This work focuses on minimizing the eigenvalue of a noncommutative polynomial subject to a finite number of noncommutative polynomial inequality constraints. Based on the Helton-Mc…