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Randomized Nystr\"om Preconditioned Interior Point-Proximal Method of Multipliers

Optimization and Control 2025-01-15 v2

Abstract

We present a new algorithm for convex separable quadratic programming (QP) called Nys-IP-PMM, a regularized interior-point solver that uses low-rank structure to accelerate solution of the Newton system. The algorithm combines the interior point proximal method of multipliers (IP-PMM) with the randomized Nystr\"om preconditioned conjugate gradient method as the inner linear system solver. Our algorithm is matrix-free: it accesses the input matrices solely through matrix-vector products, as opposed to methods involving matrix factorization. It works particularly well for separable QP instances with dense constraint matrices. We establish convergence of Nys-IP-PMM. Numerical experiments demonstrate its superior performance in terms of wallclock time compared to previous matrix-free IPM-based approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2404.14524,
  title  = {Randomized Nystr\"om Preconditioned Interior Point-Proximal Method of Multipliers},
  author = {Ya-Chi Chu and Luiz-Rafael Santos and Madeleine Udell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14524},
  year   = {2025}
}
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