% Exercise 5.39: SDP relaxations of the two-way partitioning problem % Boyd & Vandenberghe. "Convex Optimization" % Joëlle Skaf - 09/07/05 % (a figure is generated) % % Compares the optimal values of: % 1) the Lagrange dual of the two-way partitioning problem % maximize -sum(nu) % s.t. W + diag(nu) >= 0 % 2) the SDP relaxation of the two-way partitioning problem % minimize trace(WX) % s.t. X >= 0 % X_ii = 1 % Input data randn('state',0); n = 10; W = randn(n); W = 0.5*(W + W'); % Lagrange dual fprintf(1,'Solving the dual of the two-way partitioning problem...'); cvx_begin sdp variable nu(n) maximize ( -sum(nu) ) W + diag(nu) >= 0; cvx_end fprintf(1,'Done! \n'); opt1 = cvx_optval; % SDP relaxation fprintf(1,'Solving the SDP relaxation of the two-way partitioning problem...'); cvx_begin sdp variable X(n,n) symmetric minimize ( trace(W*X) ) diag(X) == 1; X >= 0; cvx_end fprintf(1,'Done! \n'); opt2 = cvx_optval; % Displaying results disp('------------------------------------------------------------------------'); disp('The optimal value of the Lagrange dual and the SDP relaxation fo the '); disp('two-way partitioning problem are, respectively, '); disp([opt1 opt2]) disp('They are equal as expected!');