Relaxing the optimality conditions of box QP

  • Authors:
  • Samuel Burer;Jieqiu Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Management Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA 52242-1994;Department of Management Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA 52242-1994

  • Venue:
  • Computational Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present semidefinite relaxations of nonconvex, box-constrained quadratic programming, which incorporate the first- and second-order necessary optimality conditions, and establish theoretical relationships between the new relaxations and a basic semidefinite relaxation due to Shor. We compare these relaxations in the context of branch-and-bound to determine a global optimal solution, where it is shown empirically that the new relaxations are significantly stronger than Shor's. An effective branching strategy is also developed.