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We consider low-rank semidefinite programming (LRSDP) relaxations of unconstrained $$\{-1,1\}$$ quadratic problems (or, equivalently, of Max-Cut problems) that can be formulated as the non-convex nonlinear programming problem of minimizing a quadratic function subject to separable quadratic equality constraints. We prove the equivalence of the LRSDP problem with the unconstrained minimization of a new merit function and we define an efficient and globally convergent algorithm, called SpeeDP, for finding critical points of the LRSDP problem. We provide evidence of the effectiveness of SpeeDP by comparing it with other existing codes on an extended set of instances of the Max-Cut problem. We further include SpeeDP within a simply modified version of the Goemans-Williamson algorithm and we show that the corresponding heuristic SpeeDP-MC can generate high-quality cuts for very large, sparse graphs of size up to a million nodes in a few hours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we consider low-rank semidefinite programming (LRSDP) relaxations of combinatorial quadratic problems that are equivalent to the maxcut problem. Using the Gramian representation of a positive semidefinite matrix, the LRSDP problem can be formulated as the nonconvex nonlinear programming problem of minimizing a quadratic function with quadratic equality constraints. For the solution of this problem we propose a continuously differentiable exact merit function that exploits the special structure of the constraints and we use this function to define an efficient and globally convergent algorithm. Finally, we test our code on an extended set of instances of the maxcut problem and we report comparisons with other existing codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on a study which defined online algorithms for neural-network training based on the construction of multiple copies of the network. Problem formulation; Properties of the augmented Lagrangian function; Conclusions.