A scheme|inspired from an old idea due to Mayne and Polak (Math. Prog., vol. 11, 1976, pp. 67{80)|is proposed for extending to general smooth constrained optimization problems a previously proposed feasible interior-point method for inequality constrained problems. It is shown that the primal-dual interior point framework allows for a signi cantly more e ective implementation of the Mayne-Polak...

In this paper we show that the so-called commutative class of primal-dual interior point algorithms which were designed by Monteiro and Zhang for semidefinite programming extends word-for-word to optimization problems over all symmetric cones. The machinery of Euclidean Jordan algebras is used to carry out this extension. Unlike some non-commutative algorithms such as the XS+SXmethod, this clas...

In this paper, we introduce the truncated primal-infeasible dual-feasible interior point algorithm for linear programming and describe an implementation of this algorithm for solving the minimum cost network flow problem. In each iteration, the linear system that determines the search direction is computed inexactly, and the norm of the resulting residual vector is used in the stopping criteria...

In this paper, we propose a feasible primal-dual path-following algorithm for convex quadratic programs.At each interior-point iteration the algorithm uses a full-Newton step and a suitable proximity measure for tracing approximately the central path.We show that the short-step algorithm has the best known iteration bound,namely O( √ n log (n+1) ).

We propose a family of search directions based on primal-dual entropy in the contextof interior-point methods for linear optimization. We show that by using entropy based searchdirections in the predictor step of a predictor-corrector algorithm together with a homogeneousself-dual embedding, we can achieve the current best iteration complexity bound for linear opti-mization. The...

This chapter presents an algorithm that works simultaneously on primal and dual linear programming problems and generates a sequence of pairs of their interior feasible solutions. Along the sequence generated, the duality gap converges to zero at least linearly with a global convergence ratio (1 Yf/n); each iteration reduces the duality gap by at least Yf/n. Here n denotes the size of the probl...

Abstract A transformed primal-dual (TPD) flow is developed for a class of nonlinear smooth saddle point system. The the dual variable contains Schur complement which strongly convex. Exponential stability obtained by showing strong Lyapunov property. Several TPD iterations are derived implicit Euler, explicit implicit-explicit and Gauss-Seidel methods with accelerated overrelaxation flow. Gener...

Primal-dual Interior-Point Methods (IPMs) have shown their ability in solving large classes of optimization problems efficiently. Feasible IPMs require a strictly feasible starting point to generate the iterates that converge to an optimal solution. The self-dual embedding model provides an elegant solution to this problem with the cost of slightly increasing the size of the problem. On the oth...

We describe a cutting plane algorithm for solving linear ordering problems. The algorithm uses a primal-dual interior point method to solve the rst few relaxations and then switches to a simplex method to solve the last few relaxations. The simplex method uses CPLEX 4.0. We compare the algorithm with one that uses only an interior point method and with one that uses only a simplex method. We so...

After a brief introduction to Jordan algebras, we present a primal-dual interior-point algorithm for second-order conic optimization that uses full Nesterov-Todd-steps; no line searches are required. The number of iterations of the algorithm is O( √ N log(N/ε), where N stands for the number of second-order cones in the problem formulation and ε is the desired accuracy. The bound coincides with ...