EUROPT 2024
Abstract Submission

26. Barrier Algorithms for Constrained Non-Convex Optimization

Invited abstract in session WE-6: Higher-order Methods in Mathematical Programming I, stream Challenges in nonlinear programming.

Wednesday, 14:10 - 15:50
Room: M:H

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Pavel Dvurechensky
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics
2. Mathias Staudigl
Department of Mathematics, Universität Mannheim

Abstract

A key problem in mathematical imaging, signal processing and computational statistics is the minimization of non-convex objective functions that may be non-differentiable at the relative boundary of the feasible set. This paper proposes a new family of first- and second-order interior-point methods for non-convex optimization problems with linear and set constraints, combining self-concordant barriers with quadratic and cubic regularization respectively. Our approach is based on a potential-reduction mechanism and, under the Lipschitz continuity of the corresponding derivative with respect to the local barrier-induced norm, attains a suitably defined class of approximate first- or second-order KKT points with worst-case iteration complexity typical for unconstrained optimization. Based on these findings, we develop also new path-following schemes attaining the same complexity, modulo adjusting constants.

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Status: accepted


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