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Main Authors: Salloum, Hadi, Hildebrand, Roland, Nguyen, Nhat Trung, Pirau, Vitali, Badr, Amer Al, Alkousa, Mohammad, Gasnikov, Alexander
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08852
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author Salloum, Hadi
Hildebrand, Roland
Nguyen, Nhat Trung
Pirau, Vitali
Badr, Amer Al
Alkousa, Mohammad
Gasnikov, Alexander
author_facet Salloum, Hadi
Hildebrand, Roland
Nguyen, Nhat Trung
Pirau, Vitali
Badr, Amer Al
Alkousa, Mohammad
Gasnikov, Alexander
contents We present a novel approach to accelerate the Goemans-Williamson (GW) randomized rounding procedure for quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems. Instead of solving the conventional semi-definite programming (SDP) relaxation, which is computationally expensive, we employ a difference-of-convex (DC) optimization framework to efficiently approximate the SDP solution. The DC optimization produces candidate vectors that are then used within the GW randomized rounding scheme to generate high-quality binary solutions. Furthermore, we perform direct expectation minimization over manifolds of matrices with limited rank to further enhance the solution quality. Our method is benchmarked on real-world QUBO instances, including inverse kinematics problems, and compared against state-of-the-art solvers, such as quantum-inspired algorithms, demonstrating competitive approximation guarantees alongside substantial computational gains.
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spellingShingle Speeding up the Goemans-Williamson randomized procedure by difference-of-convex optimization
Salloum, Hadi
Hildebrand, Roland
Nguyen, Nhat Trung
Pirau, Vitali
Badr, Amer Al
Alkousa, Mohammad
Gasnikov, Alexander
Optimization and Control
90C09, 90C27
We present a novel approach to accelerate the Goemans-Williamson (GW) randomized rounding procedure for quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems. Instead of solving the conventional semi-definite programming (SDP) relaxation, which is computationally expensive, we employ a difference-of-convex (DC) optimization framework to efficiently approximate the SDP solution. The DC optimization produces candidate vectors that are then used within the GW randomized rounding scheme to generate high-quality binary solutions. Furthermore, we perform direct expectation minimization over manifolds of matrices with limited rank to further enhance the solution quality. Our method is benchmarked on real-world QUBO instances, including inverse kinematics problems, and compared against state-of-the-art solvers, such as quantum-inspired algorithms, demonstrating competitive approximation guarantees alongside substantial computational gains.
title Speeding up the Goemans-Williamson randomized procedure by difference-of-convex optimization
topic Optimization and Control
90C09, 90C27
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08852