# Improved Convergence Rates for Lasserre-Type Hierarchies of Upper Bounds for Box-Constrained Polynomial Optimization

@article{Klerk2017ImprovedCR,
title={Improved Convergence Rates for Lasserre-Type Hierarchies of Upper Bounds for Box-Constrained Polynomial Optimization},
author={Etienne de Klerk and Roxana Hess and Monique Laurent},
journal={SIAM J. Optim.},
year={2017},
volume={27},
pages={347-367}
}
• Published 10 March 2016
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• SIAM J. Optim.
We consider the problem of minimizing a given $n$-variate polynomial $f$ over the hypercube $[-1,1]^n$. An idea introduced by Lasserre, is to find a probability distribution on $[-1,1]^n$ with polynomial density function $h$ (of given degree $r$) that minimizes the expectation $\int_{[-1,1]^n} f(x)h(x)d\mu(x)$, where $d\mu(x)$ is a fixed, finite Borel measure supported on $[-1,1]^n$. It is known that, for the Lebesgue measure $d\mu(x) = dx$, one may show an error bound $O(1/\sqrt{r})$ if $h$ is…
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