@InProceedings{burgisser_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2018.24, author = {B\"{u}rgisser, Peter and Garg, Ankit and Oliveira, Rafael and Walter, Michael and Wigderson, Avi}, title = {{Alternating Minimization, Scaling Algorithms, and the Null-Cone Problem from Invariant Theory}}, booktitle = {9th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2018)}, pages = {24:1--24:20}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-060-6}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {94}, editor = {Karlin, Anna R.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2018.24}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-83510}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2018.24}, annote = {Keywords: alternating minimization, tensors, scaling, quantum marginal problem, null cone, invariant theory, geometric complexity theory} }