EUROPT 2025
Abstract Submission

20. Polynomial worst-case complexity for quasi-Newton Interior Point Methods

Invited abstract in session WB-11: Interior point methods and applications - Part I, stream Interior point methods and applications.

Wednesday, 10:30-12:30
Room: B100/5017

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Francisco Sobral
Department of Mathematics, State University of Maringá
2. Jacek Gondzio
School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh

Abstract

Quasi-Newton methods are well known techniques for large-scale numerical optimization. They use an approximation of the Hessian in optimization problems or the Jacobian in system of nonlinear equations. In the Interior Point context, quasi-Newton algorithms compute low-rank updates of the matrix associated with the Newton systems, instead of computing it from scratch at every iteration. In this work, we show that a simplified quasi-Newton primal-dual interior point algorithm for linear programming enjoys polynomial worst-case iteration complexity. Feasible and infeasible cases of the algorithm are considered and the most common neighborhoods of the central path are analyzed. Quasi-Newton updates are very attractive for large-scale optimization problems where the cost of factorizing the matrices is much higher than the cost of solving linear systems.

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Status: accepted


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