Simplicial Regularizability of the Pseudo-Moment Cone and Carathéodory-Type Atomic Decomposition of Moment Matrices

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Autori principali: Kang, Shucheng, Yang, Heng
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author Kang, Shucheng
Yang, Heng
author_facet Kang, Shucheng
Yang, Heng
contents We study the facial geometry of the homogeneous pseudo-moment cone \(Σ_{n,2d}^*\) and its implications for atomic decomposition of moment matrices. For fixed \(d \ge 2\), we show that if a moment matrix is formed by \(O(n^d)\) generically chosen weighted atoms, then its minimal face in the matrix realization of the pseudo-moment cone is \emph{simplicial} and generated by the planted rank-one atoms. Based on this geometric result, we develop a Carathéodory-type extreme-ray decomposition algorithm for spectrahedral cones and show that, when specialized to the pseudo-moment cone, it yields an efficient atomic decomposition method for generically generated moment matrices in the same regime. A stabilized numerical implementation demonstrates strong recovery performance and suggests that, outside the guaranteed regime, the algorithm may serve as a practical sampler of high-rank extreme rays.
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spellingShingle Simplicial Regularizability of the Pseudo-Moment Cone and Carathéodory-Type Atomic Decomposition of Moment Matrices
Kang, Shucheng
Yang, Heng
Optimization and Control
We study the facial geometry of the homogeneous pseudo-moment cone \(Σ_{n,2d}^*\) and its implications for atomic decomposition of moment matrices. For fixed \(d \ge 2\), we show that if a moment matrix is formed by \(O(n^d)\) generically chosen weighted atoms, then its minimal face in the matrix realization of the pseudo-moment cone is \emph{simplicial} and generated by the planted rank-one atoms. Based on this geometric result, we develop a Carathéodory-type extreme-ray decomposition algorithm for spectrahedral cones and show that, when specialized to the pseudo-moment cone, it yields an efficient atomic decomposition method for generically generated moment matrices in the same regime. A stabilized numerical implementation demonstrates strong recovery performance and suggests that, outside the guaranteed regime, the algorithm may serve as a practical sampler of high-rank extreme rays.
title Simplicial Regularizability of the Pseudo-Moment Cone and Carathéodory-Type Atomic Decomposition of Moment Matrices
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06854