Let ϑ Rd1 and µ Rd2 be the dual variables corresponding to the d1 equality constraints and the d2 inequality constraints respectively. Let X? be an optimal solution to (SDP) and let X?FW be an optimal solution to (SDP-LSE). For ease of notation, let u= A(1)(X) b(1) andv = b(2) A(2)(X), (1) and define (bu,bv), (uFW,vFW) and (u?,v?) by substituting bX, XFW and X? respectively in (1). Upper bound on the objective. Rearranging the terms, using the duality of the `1 and ` norms, and the fact that µ? 0, gives hC, bX i hC,X?i+

Largescale instances of SDPs, thus, present a memory bottleneck. In this paper, we develop simple polynomial-time Gaussian sampling-based algorithms for these twoproblems thatuseO(n+|E|)memory andnearly achievethebestexisting approximation guarantees.