RAIRO Oper. Res. 41 (2007) 367-380
DOI: 10.1051/ro:2007032
Rescaled proximal methods for linearly constrained convex problems
Paulo J.S. Silva and Carlos Humes Jr.Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; pjssilva@ime.usp.br, chumes@usp.br
(Received January 4, 2006. Accepted January 22, 2007. Published online 11 October 2007.)
Abstract
We present an inexact interior point proximal method to solve
linearly constrained convex problems. In fact, we derive a
primal-dual algorithm to solve the KKT conditions of the
optimization problem using a modified version of the rescaled
proximal method. We also present a pure primal method.
The proposed proximal method has as distinctive feature the
possibility of allowing inexact inner steps even for Linear
Programming. This is achieved by using an error criterion that
bounds the subgradient of the regularized function, instead of using
-subgradients of the original objective function.
Quadratic convergence for LP is also proved using a more stringent
error criterion.
Mathematics Subject Classification. 90C25, 90C33
Key words: Interior proximal methods, Linearly constrained convex problems
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