I want to implement the following optimization problem from the following paper [Randomized Gossip Algorithms, Page 10 Eq 53][1] [The screenshot of the optimization problem.][2] 1- In this problem, `$W$, $P$, and $P_{ij}$` are `$n\times{n}$` matrices. I would appreciate if you help me with implementing the following constraint in CVX. \begin{equation} W=\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i,j=1}^{n}P_{i,j}W_{i,j} \end{equation} 2- Also, in this problem, `$E$` is a set of neighbors of a nod $i$. Constraint `$P_{ij}=0~if~ \{i,j\}\not\in{E}$` means that `$P_{ij}$` is zero if node `$i$` and `$j$` are not neighbors. Does anyone can help with how to implement this neighborhood relationship? For $n=3$, `neighbors.xlsx` can look like: [screenshot of neighbors.xlsx][3] This means node 1 is neighbor with node 2, node 2 is neighbor with node 1 and 3, and node 3 is neighbor with node2. I have the written the following piece of code for that in Matlab. It does not work. Any help is greatly appreciated. cvx_begin sdp agt = struct([]); neighbors = readcell('neighbors.xlsx'); N = 2; for i = 1:N agt(i).neighbors = neighbors{i}; end variable s variable P(N,N) symmetric variable W_ij(N,N) symmetric expression W minimize (s) subject to P(:) >= 0; j = 1; for i = 1:N D =[i,j]; if ~ismember(D,agt(i).neighbors) P(i,j)== 0; end j = j+1; end for i = 1:N for j = 1:N W = P(i,j).*W_ij; end end W = (1/N).*W; W-(1/N)*ones(N,1)*ones(1,N) - s*eye(N) == semidefinite(N); cvx_end [1]: http://www.arpitaghosh.com/papers/gossip.pdf [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/tav7D.png [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/PAYnk.png