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Optimization over the Boolean Hypercube via Sums of Nonnegative Circuit Polynomials

Authors Mareike Dressler, Adam Kurpisz, Timo de Wolff

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Mareike Dressler
  • Goethe-Universität, FB 12 - Institut für Mathematik, Robert-Mayer-Str. 6-10, 60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Adam Kurpisz
  • ETH Zürich, Department of Mathematics, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Timo de Wolff
  • Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Mathematik, Straße des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin, Germany

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  • Kurpisz, Adam: Swiss National Science Foundation project PZ00P2_174117 "Theory and Applications of Linear and Semidefinite Relaxations for Combinatorial Optimization Problems"
  • de Wolff, Timo: DFG grant WO 2206/1-1

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Mareike Dressler, Adam Kurpisz, and Timo de Wolff. Optimization over the Boolean Hypercube via Sums of Nonnegative Circuit Polynomials. In 43rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 117, pp. 82:1-82:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2018.82

Abstract

Various key problems from theoretical computer science can be expressed as polynomial optimization problems over the boolean hypercube. One particularly successful way to prove complexity bounds for these types of problems are based on sums of squares (SOS) as nonnegativity certificates. In this article, we initiate optimization over the boolean hypercube via a recent, alternative certificate called sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials (SONC). We show that key results for SOS based certificates remain valid: First, there exists a SONC certificate of degree at most n+d for polynomials which are nonnegative over the n-variate boolean hypercube with constraints of degree d. Second, if there exists a degree d SONC certificate for nonnegativity of a polynomial over the boolean hypercube, then there also exists a short degree d SONC certificate, that includes at most n^O(d) nonnegative circuit polynomials. Finally, we show certain differences between SOS and SONC cones: we prove that, in contrast to SOS, the SONC cone is not closed under taking affine transformation of variables and that for SONC there does not exist an equivalent to Putinar's Positivestellensatz. We discuss these results both from algebraic and optimization perspective.

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  • Mathematics of computing → Convex optimization
Keywords
  • nonnegativity certificate
  • hypercube optimization
  • sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials
  • relative entropy programming
  • sums of squares

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