Sparse approximate solutions to semidefinite programs

  • Authors:
  • Elad Hazan

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • LATIN'08 Proceedings of the 8th Latin American conference on Theoretical informatics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose an algorithm for approximately maximizing a concave function over the bounded semi-definite cone, which produces sparse solutions. Sparsity for SDP corresponds to low rank matrices, and is a important property for both computational as well as learning theoretic reasons. As an application, building on Aaronson's recent work, we derive a linear time algorithm for Quantum State Tomography.