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Huikang Liu

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Preprint Aug 2026

GPU-Accelerated Conic Quadratic Programming with Local Linear Convergence under Strict Complementarity

We present PDHCG-CQP, a GPU-accelerated first-order solver for large-scale conic convex quadratic programming. PDHCG-CQP supports affine constraints and Cartesian products of nonnegative, second-order, rotated second-order, exponential, and three-dimensional power cones. At its core is a restarted averaged primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) method, whose primal update is computed inexactly by solving a conic quadratic proximal subproblem with projected gradient iterations. We establish local linear convergence of the restarted averaged scheme with both exact and inexact primal proximal evaluations under a uniform local quadratic-growth condition on the smoothed primal-dual gap. We further show that this condition holds under strict complementarity by exploiting a rotated second-order-cone lifting together with local primal and dual regularity conditions. Our C/CUDA implementation combines matrix-free linear algebra, batched cone projections, adaptive inner solves, reflected-Halpern acceleration, and fully device-resident KKT residual computations. It also supports multi-GPU execution through a two-dimensional partitioning of the problem data. Extensive experiments on standard and large-scale quadratic programming (QP), convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP), second-order cone programming (SOCP), and quasilinear Fisher equilibrium benchmarks demonstrate that PDHCG-CQP achieves state-of-the-art robustness among first-order solvers while scaling efficiently to 8 GPUs and instances with up to $4.4\times10^8$ stored primal coordinates. PDHCG-CQP is open source and available at https://github.com/Lhongpei/PDHCG.

Hongpei Li, Yicheng Huang, Huikang Liu et al. · 2 citations
Open access Jul 2026

An MILP-Based Solution Scheme for Factored Markov Decision Processes

Off-the-Shelf Solvers Take on the Curse of Dimensionality Many real-world decision problems—from managing power plants and microgrids to coordinating fleets of robots, recommender systems, and traffic networks—involve dynamics and rewards that decompose into smaller, loosely interacting components. Factored Markov decision processes (FMDPs) exploit this structure to escape the curse of dimensionality, but they have traditionally been solved with bespoke algorithms that require painstaking implementation and substantial fine-tuning. In this issue, Liu, Wiesemann, and Yue introduce a new mathematical programming perspective on FMDPs that swaps hand-crafted machinery for off-the-shelf optimization solvers. By encoding sparse dependencies through mixed-integer linear programming–representable feature vectors, their formulation exploits factored structure in both states and actions, unifies and extends existing treatments of context-specific independence, and pairs an approximate linear program with a novel cutting-plane algorithm. Companion feature-learning and dynamic-basis routines further enhance scalability, and computational experiments across stylized and operational case studies illustrate the method’s promise.

Huikang Liu, W. Wiesemann, Man-Chung Yue · 0 citations

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