An $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(m/\varepsilon^{3.5})$-Cost Algorithm for Semidefinite Programs with Diagonal Constraints

Yin Tat Lee; Swati Padmanabhan

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An $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(m/\varepsilon^{3.5})$-Cost Algorithm for Semidefinite Programs with Diagonal Constraints

Yin Tat Lee·Swati Padmanabhan

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We study semidefinite programs with diagonal constraints. This problem class appears in combinatorial optimization and has a wide range of engineering applications such as in circuit design, channel assignment in wireless networks, phase recovery, covariance matrix estimation, and low-order controller design. In this paper, we give an algorithm to solve this problem to $\varepsilon$-accuracy, with a run time of $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(m/\varepsilon^{3.5})$, where $m$ is the number of non-zero entries in the cost matrix. We improve upon the previous best run time of $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(m/\varepsilon^{4.5})$ by Arora and Kale. As a corollary of our result, given an instance of the Max-Cut problem with $n$ vertices and $m \gg n$ edges, our algorithm when applied to the standard SDP relaxation of Max-Cut returns a $(1 - \varepsilon)\alpha_{GW}$ cut in time $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(m/\varepsilon^{3.5})$, where $\alpha_{GW} \approx 0.878567$ is the Goemans-Williamson approximation ratio. We obtain this run time via the stochastic variance reduction framework applied to the Arora-Kale algorithm, by constructing a constant-accuracy estimator to maintain the primal iterates.

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Yin Tat Lee, Swati Padmanabhan. 2019-03-05. An $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(m/\varepsilon^{3.5})$-Cost Algorithm for Semidefinite Programs with Diagonal Constraints. https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01859

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