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Forcing a smart initialization?
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Local Minima, Stable Sets, and Sums of Squares
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- 1 Intro
- 2 A bird's eye view of optimization
- 3 Step size too small
- 4 Forcing a smart initialization?
- 5 Finding a local minimum
- 6 Finding a local minimizer of a quadratic program
- 7 Stable sets in graphs
- 8 Proof outline
- 9 What about the unconstrained case?
- 10 Finding local minima of cubics Let's start with a simpler question. Can we efficiently find a critical point
- 11 Unexpected convexity
- 12 Local minima of cubics and SDP
- 13 All roads lead to sums of squares
- 14 A more complete story
- 15 Remainder of the talk
- 16 Nonnegativity vs. sum of squares
- 17 Nonnegative polynomials that are not SOS?
- 18 A new notion: SOS-perfect graphs
- 19 Example
- 20 An immediate implication
- 21 What happens on random graphs?
- 22 A challenge for the SOS/SDP community is
- 23 Feel the need for more SOS?
