GLOBAL LINEAR AND QUADRATIC ONE-STEP SMOOTHING NEWTON METHOD FOR VERTICAL LINEAR COMPLEMENTARITY PROBLEMS

A one_step smoothing Newton method is proposed for solving the vertical linear complementarity problem based on the so_called aggregation function. The proposed algorithm has the following good features: (ⅰ) It solves only one linear system of equations and does only one line search at each iteration; (ⅱ) It is well_defined for the vertical linear complementarity problem with vertical block P 0 matrix and any accumulation point of iteration sequence is its solution.Moreover, the iteration sequence is bounded for the vertical linear complementarity problem with vertical block P 0+R 0 matrix; (ⅲ) It has both global linear and local quadratic convergence without strict complementarity. Many existing smoothing Newton methods do not have the property (ⅲ).

Non-interior Continuation Algorithm for Solving System of Inequalities over Symmetric Cones

As a basic mathematical structure,the system of inequalities over symmetric cones and its solution can provide an effective method for solving the startup problem of interior point method which is used to solve many optimization problems.In this paper,a non-interior continuation algorithm is proposed for solving the system of inequalities under the order induced by a symmetric cone.It is shown that the proposed algorithm is globally convergent and well-defined.Moreover,it can start from any point and only needs to solve one system of linear equations at most at each iteration.Under suitable assumptions,global linear and local quadratic convergence is established with Euclidean Jordan algebras.Numerical results indicate that the algorithm is efficient.The systems of random linear inequalities were tested over the second-order cones with sizes of 10,100,,1 000 respectively and the problems of each size were generated randomly for 10 times.The average iterative numbers show that the proposed algorithm can generate a solution at one step for solving the given linear class of problems with random initializations.It seems possible that the continuation algorithm can solve larger scale systems of linear inequalities over the secondorder cones quickly.Moreover,a system of nonlinear inequalities was also tested over Cartesian product of two simple second-order cones,and numerical results indicate that the proposed algorithm can deal with the nonlinear cases.

Convergence of a Non-interior Continuation Algorithm for the Monotone SCCP

It is well known that the symmetric cone complementarity problem（SCCP） is a broad class of optimization problems which contains many optimization problems as special cases.Based on a general smoothing function,we propose in this paper a non-interior continuation algorithm for solving the monotone SCCP.The proposed algorithm solves at most one system of linear equations at each iteration.By using the theory of Euclidean Jordan algebras,we show that the algorithm is globally linearly and locally quadratically convergent under suitable assumptions.

An Improved Feasible QP-free Algorithm for Inequality Constrained Optimization

In this paper, an improved feasible QP-free method is proposed to solve nonlinear inequality constrained optimization problems. Here, a new modified method is presented to obtain the revised feasible descent direction. In view of the computational cost, the most attractive feature of the new algorithm is that only one system of linear equations is required to obtain the revised feasible descent direction. Thereby, per single iteration, it is only necessary to solve three systems of linear equations with the same coefficient matrix. In particular, without the positive definiteness assumption on the Hessian estimate, the proposed algorithm is still global convergence. Under some suitable conditions, the superlinear convergence rate is obtained.