Barrier Functions in Interior Point Methods

Local Self-concordance of Barrier Functions Based on Kernel-functions

 Many efficient interior-point methods (IPMs) are based on the use of a self-concordant barrier function for the domain of the problem that has to be solved. Recently, a wide class of new barrier functions has been introduced in which the functions are not self-concordant, but despite this fact give rise to efficient IPMs. Here, we introduce the notion of locally self-concordant barrier functio...

An Interior Point Algorithm for Solving Convex Quadratic Semidefinite Optimization Problems Using a New Kernel Function

In this paper, we consider convex quadratic semidefinite optimization problems and provide a primal-dual Interior Point Method (IPM) based on a new kernel function with a trigonometric barrier term. Iteration complexity of the algorithm is analyzed using some easy to check and mild conditions. Although our proposed kernel function is neither a Self-Regular (SR) fun...

New Barrier Parameter Updating Technique in Mehrotra-Type Algorithm

A unifying investigation of interior - point methods for convex programming Report 92 - 89

In the recent past a number of papers were written that present low complexity interior-point methods for di erent classes of convex programs. Goal of this article is to show that the logarithmic barrier function associated with these programs is self-concordant, and that the analyses of interiorpoint methods for these programs can thus be reduced to the analysis of interior-point methods with ...

An infeasible interior-point method for the $P*$-matrix linear complementarity problem based on a trigonometric kernel function with full-Newton step

An infeasible interior-point algorithm for solving the$P_*$-matrix linear complementarity problem based on a kernelfunction with trigonometric barrier term is analyzed. Each (main)iteration of the algorithm consists of a feasibility step andseveral centrality steps, whose feasibility step is induced by atrigonometric kernel function. The complexity result coincides withthe best result for infea...