# Perspective of log det function

(Miao Jiang) #1

Is there any way to implement the perspective function of log det function (x\log|I+\frac Y x|, x \geq 0,Y \in S^+) in cvx?@mcg

Is there a way to write perspective functions?
(Mark L. Stone) #2

I’m not very optimistic. See Adding Quantum Relative Entropy to CVX .

(Mark L. Stone) #3

@jmiao I believe this can be done using CVXQUAD.https://github.com/hfawzi/cvxquad/9 , which supports quantum_rel_entr(X,Y) defined as trace(X*(logm(X)-logm(Y))) .

-quantum_rel_entr(x*eye(n), x*eye(n) + Y) = x*log(det(eye(n) + Y/x)) , which is the matrix (quantum) generalization of @mcg’s scalar formula shown in Perspective function .

Full disclosure: I had never used CVXQUAD. @awinick, who tried it, wrote in Adding Quantum Relative Entropy to CVX “I found that both the run time and memory usage meant that I could only consider trivial problems of interest.” But perhaps your problems of interest, if you’re still interested a year later, are smaller than his.

Update: I’ve now tried some optimization with quantum_rel_entrunder CVX 2.1 . As matrix dimension increases, it can take a long time to process even an expression having qunatum_rel_entr, let alone the solver solution time. And you can easily run out of memory.

I encountered an error in kron which I have not tried to diagnose when using it under CVX 3.0beta.