A mathematical view of interior-point methods in convex optimization /

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Author / Creator:Renegar, James, 1955-
Imprint:Philadelphia, PA : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics : Mathematical Programming Society, 2001.
Description:vii, 117 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:MPS-SIAM series on optimization
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4563539
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ISBN:0898715024 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-116) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 1.1. Linear Algebra
  • 1.2. Gradients
  • 1.3. Hessians
  • 1.4. Convexity
  • 1.5. Fundamental Theorems of Calculus
  • 1.6. Newton's Method
  • 2. Basic Interior-Point Method Theory
  • 2.1. Intrinsic Inner Products
  • 2.2. Self-Concordant Functionals
  • 2.2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2.2. Self-Concordancy and Newton's Method
  • 2.2.3. Other Properties
  • 2.3. Barrier Functionals
  • 2.3.1. Introduction
  • 2.3.2. Analytic Centers
  • 2.3.3. Optimal Barrier Functionals
  • 2.3.4. Other Properties
  • 2.3.5. Logarithmic Homogeneity
  • 2.4. Primal Algorithms
  • 2.4.1. Introduction
  • 2.4.2. The Barrier Method
  • 2.4.3. The Long-Step Barrier Method
  • 2.4.4. A Predictor-Corrector Method
  • 2.5. Matters of Definition
  • 3. Conic Programming and Duality
  • 3.1. Conic Programming
  • 3.2. Classical Duality Theory
  • 3.3. The Conjugate Functional
  • 3.4. Duality of the Central Paths
  • 3.5. Self-Scaled (or Symmetric) Cones
  • 3.5.1. Introduction
  • 3.5.2. An Important Remark on Notation
  • 3.5.3. Scaling Points
  • 3.5.4. Gradients and Norms
  • 3.5.5. A Useful Theorem
  • 3.6. The Nesterov--Todd Directions
  • 3.7. Primal-Dual Path-Following Methods
  • 3.7.1. Measures of Proximity
  • 3.7.2. An Algorithm
  • 3.7.3. Another Algorithm
  • 3.8. A Primal-Dual Potential-Reduction Method
  • 3.8.1. The Potential Function
  • 3.8.2. The Algorithm
  • 3.8.3. The Analysis
  • Bibliography
  • Index