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Solving large scale binary quadratic problems: Spectral methods vs. Semidefinite programming

Olsson, Carl LU ; Eriksson, Anders P LU and Kahl, Fredrik LU (2007) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007 p.1776-1783
Abstract
In this paper we introduce two new methods for solving binary quadratic problems. While spectral relaxation methods have been the workhorse subroutine for a wide variety of computer vision problems - segmentation, clustering, image restoration to name a few - it has recently been challenged by semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations. In fact, it can be shown that SDP relaxations produce better lower bounds than spectral relaxations on binary problems with a quadratic objective junction. On the other hand, the computational complexity for SDP increases rapidly as the number of decision variables grows making them inapplicable to large scale problems. Our methods combine the merits of both spectral and SDP relaxations - better (lower)... (More)
In this paper we introduce two new methods for solving binary quadratic problems. While spectral relaxation methods have been the workhorse subroutine for a wide variety of computer vision problems - segmentation, clustering, image restoration to name a few - it has recently been challenged by semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations. In fact, it can be shown that SDP relaxations produce better lower bounds than spectral relaxations on binary problems with a quadratic objective junction. On the other hand, the computational complexity for SDP increases rapidly as the number of decision variables grows making them inapplicable to large scale problems. Our methods combine the merits of both spectral and SDP relaxations - better (lower) bounds than traditional spectral methods and considerably faster execution times than SDP The first method is based on spectral subgradients and can be applied to large scale SDPs with binary decision variables and the second one is based on the trust region problem. Both algorithms have been applied to several large scale vision problems with good performance.<sup>1</sup> © 2007 IEEE. (Less)
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Semidefinite programming, Quadratic objective junctions, Binary problems
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Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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1776 - 1783
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007
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Minneapolis, MN, United States
conference dates
2007-06-17 - 2007-06-22
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1063-6919
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10.1109/CVPR.2007.383202
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English
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  abstract     = {{In this paper we introduce two new methods for solving binary quadratic problems. While spectral relaxation methods have been the workhorse subroutine for a wide variety of computer vision problems - segmentation, clustering, image restoration to name a few - it has recently been challenged by semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations. In fact, it can be shown that SDP relaxations produce better lower bounds than spectral relaxations on binary problems with a quadratic objective junction. On the other hand, the computational complexity for SDP increases rapidly as the number of decision variables grows making them inapplicable to large scale problems. Our methods combine the merits of both spectral and SDP relaxations - better (lower) bounds than traditional spectral methods and considerably faster execution times than SDP The first method is based on spectral subgradients and can be applied to large scale SDPs with binary decision variables and the second one is based on the trust region problem. Both algorithms have been applied to several large scale vision problems with good performance.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; © 2007 IEEE.}},
  author       = {{Olsson, Carl and Eriksson, Anders P and Kahl, Fredrik}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition}},
  issn         = {{1063-6919}},
  keywords     = {{Semidefinite programming; Quadratic objective junctions; Binary problems}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{1776--1783}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{Solving large scale binary quadratic problems: Spectral methods vs. Semidefinite programming}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2007.383202}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/CVPR.2007.383202}},
  year         = {{2007}},
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