Computational complexity of sum-of-squares bounds for copositive programs

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Autores principales: Palomba, Marilena, Slot, Lucas, Vargas, Luis Felipe, Mastrolilli, Monaldo
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author Palomba, Marilena
Slot, Lucas
Vargas, Luis Felipe
Mastrolilli, Monaldo
author_facet Palomba, Marilena
Slot, Lucas
Vargas, Luis Felipe
Mastrolilli, Monaldo
contents In recent years, copositive programming has received significant attention for its ability to model hard problems in both discrete and continuous optimization. Several relaxations of copositive programs based on semidefinite programming (SDP) have been proposed in the literature, meant to provide tractable bounds. However, while these SDP-based relaxations are amenable to the ellipsoid algorithm and interior point methods, it is not immediately obvious that they can be solved in polynomial time (even approximately). In this paper, we consider the sum-of-squares (SOS) hierarchies of relaxations for copositive programs introduced by Parrilo (2000), de Klerk & Pasechnik (2002) and Peña, Vera & Zuluaga (2006), which can be formulated as SDPs. We establish sufficient conditions that guarantee the polynomial-time computability (up to fixed precision) of these relaxations. These conditions are satisfied by copositive programs that represent standard quadratic programs and their reciprocals. As an application, we show that the SOS bounds for the (weighted) stability number of a graph can be computed efficiently. Additionally, we provide pathological examples of copositive programs (that do not satisfy the sufficient conditions) whose SOS relaxations admit only feasible solutions of doubly-exponential size.
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spellingShingle Computational complexity of sum-of-squares bounds for copositive programs
Palomba, Marilena
Slot, Lucas
Vargas, Luis Felipe
Mastrolilli, Monaldo
Optimization and Control
Computational Complexity
90C22, 90C23, 90C25, 90C27, 90C51, 90C60
In recent years, copositive programming has received significant attention for its ability to model hard problems in both discrete and continuous optimization. Several relaxations of copositive programs based on semidefinite programming (SDP) have been proposed in the literature, meant to provide tractable bounds. However, while these SDP-based relaxations are amenable to the ellipsoid algorithm and interior point methods, it is not immediately obvious that they can be solved in polynomial time (even approximately). In this paper, we consider the sum-of-squares (SOS) hierarchies of relaxations for copositive programs introduced by Parrilo (2000), de Klerk & Pasechnik (2002) and Peña, Vera & Zuluaga (2006), which can be formulated as SDPs. We establish sufficient conditions that guarantee the polynomial-time computability (up to fixed precision) of these relaxations. These conditions are satisfied by copositive programs that represent standard quadratic programs and their reciprocals. As an application, we show that the SOS bounds for the (weighted) stability number of a graph can be computed efficiently. Additionally, we provide pathological examples of copositive programs (that do not satisfy the sufficient conditions) whose SOS relaxations admit only feasible solutions of doubly-exponential size.
title Computational complexity of sum-of-squares bounds for copositive programs
topic Optimization and Control
Computational Complexity
90C22, 90C23, 90C25, 90C27, 90C51, 90C60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03698