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Regularization Methods for Sum of Squares Relaxations in
Large Scale Polynomial Optimization
Jiawang Nie
Department of Mathematics
UCSD
Abstract
We study how to solve sum of squares (SOS) and Lasserre's
relaxations for large scale
polynomial optimization. When interior-point type methods are used,
typically only small
or moderately large problems could be solved. This paper proposes the
regularization
type methods which would solve significantly larger problems. We first
describe these
methods for general conic semidefinite optimization, and then apply
them to solve large
scale polynomial optimization. Their efficiency is demonstrated by
extensive numerical
computations. In particular, a general dense quartic polynomial
optimization with 100
variables would be solved on a regular computer, which is almost
impossible by applying
prior existing SOS solvers.
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