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A Low-rank Spectral Optimization Problem (LSOP) minimizes a linear objective function subject to multiple two-sided linear inequalities intersected with a low-rank and spectral constrained domain. Although solving LSOP is, in general, NP-hard, its partial convexification (i.e., replacing the domain by its convex hull) termed “LSOP-R”, is often tractable and yields a high-quality solution. This motivates us to study the strength of LSOP-R. Specifically, we derive rank bounds for any extreme point of the feasible set of LSOP-R with different matrix spaces and prove their tightness. The proposed rank bounds recover two well-known results in the literature from a fresh angle and allow us to derive sufficient conditions under which the relaxation LSOP-R is equivalent to LSOP. To effectively solve LSOP-R, we develop a column generation algorithm with a vector-based convex pricing oracle, coupled with a rank-reduction algorithm, which ensures that the output solution always satisfies the theoretical rank bound. Finally, we numerically verify the strength of LSOP-R and the efficacy of the proposed algorithms.
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This research has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants 2246414 and 2246417, the Office of Naval Research grant N00014-24-1-2066, and the Georgia Tech ARC-ACO fellowship. The authors would like to thank Prof. Fatma Kılınç-Karzan for her valuable suggestions on the earlier version of this paper.
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Li, Y., Xie, W. (2024). On the Partial Convexification of the Low-Rank Spectral Optimization: Rank Bounds and Algorithms. In: Vygen, J., Byrka, J. (eds) Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization. IPCO 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14679. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59835-7_20
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