Active-set prediction for interior point methods using controlled perturbations

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DOI10.1007/S10589-015-9791-ZzbMATH Open1364.90356arXiv1404.6770OpenAlexW2079232806MaRDI QIDQ263153FDOQ263153

Yiming Yan, Coralia Cartis

Publication date: 4 April 2016

Published in: Computational Optimization and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose the use of controlled perturbations to address the challenging question of optimal active-set prediction for interior point methods. Namely, in the context of linear programming, we consider perturbing the inequality constraints/bounds so as to enlarge the feasible set. We show that if the perturbations are chosen appropriately, the solution of the original problem lies on or close to the central path of the perturbed problem. We also find that a primal-dual path-following algorithm applied to the perturbed problem is able to accurately predict the optimal active set of the original problem when the duality gap for the perturbed problem is not too small; furthermore, depending on problem conditioning, this prediction can happen sooner than predicting the active set for the perturbed problem or when the original one is solved. Encouraging preliminary numerical experience is reported when comparing activity prediction for the perturbed and unperturbed problem formulations.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6770





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