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We propose an interior point method (IPM) for solving semidefinite programming problems (SDPs). The standard interior point algorithms used to solve SDPs work in the space of positive semidefinite matrices. Contrary to that the proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Felix Kirschner , Etienne de Klerk

Conic optimization plays a crucial role in many machine learning (ML) problems. However, practical algorithms for conic constrained ML problems with large datasets are often limited to specific use cases, as stochastic algorithms for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Chuan He , Zhanwang Deng

This work presents a generalized implementation of the infeasible primal-dual Interior Point Method (IPM) achieved by the use of non-Archimedean values, i.e., infinite and infinitesimal numbers. The extended version, called here…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Lorenzo Fiaschi , Marco Cococcioni

Primal-dual interior-point methods solve constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances with speed and robustness. Their solutions are also efficiently differentiable with respect to the problem data through the implicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jon Arrizabalaga , Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

We propose a primal-dual interior-point method (IPM) with convergence to second-order stationary points (SOSPs) of nonlinear semidefinite optimization problems, abbreviated as NSDPs. As far as we know, the current algorithms for NSDPs only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Shun Arahata , Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda

The interior-point method (IPM) has become the workhorse method for nonlinear programming. The performance of IPM is directly related to the linear solver employed to factorize the Karush--Kuhn--Tucker (KKT) system at each iteration of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-23 François Pacaud , Sungho Shin , Michel Schanen , Daniel Adrian Maldonado , Mihai Anitescu

Quantum linear system algorithms (QLSAs) have the potential to speed up algorithms that rely on solving linear systems. Interior Point Methods (IPMs) yield a fundamental family of polynomial-time algorithms for solving optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Zeguan Wu , Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi , Brandon Augustino , Xiu Yang , Tamás Terlaky

As a foundation for optimization, convexity is useful beyond the classical settings of Euclidean and Hilbert space. The broader arena of nonpositively curved metric spaces, which includes manifolds like hyperbolic space, as well as metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Ariel Goodwin , Adrian S. Lewis , Genaro López-Acedo , Adriana Nicolae

We develop a short-step interior point method to optimize a linear function over a convex body assuming that one only knows a membership oracle for this body. The approach is based on Abernethy and Hazan's sketch of a universal interior…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Riley Badenbroek , Etienne de Klerk

Following a polynomial approach, many robust fixed-order controller design problems can be formulated as optimization problems whose set of feasible solutions is modelled by parametrized polynomial matrix inequalities (PMI). These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-01 Didier Henrion , Jean Bernard Lasserre

This paper deals with Interior Point Methods (IPMs) for Optimal Control Problems (OCPs) with pure state and mixed constraints. This paper establishes a complete proof of convergence of IPMs for a general class of OCPs. Convergence results…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Paul Malisani

Geodesic convexity (g-convexity) is a natural generalization of convexity to Riemannian manifolds. However, g-convexity lacks many desirable properties satisfied by Euclidean convexity. For instance, the natural notions of half-spaces and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Christopher Criscitiello , Jungbin Kim

In this paper, we propose an interior-point method for linearly constrained optimization problems (possibly nonconvex). The method - which we call the Hessian barrier algorithm (HBA) - combines a forward Euler discretization of Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Immanuel M. Bomze , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Werner Schachinger , Mathias Staudigl

Interior point methods (IPMs) are a common approach for solving linear programs (LPs) with strong theoretical guarantees and solid empirical performance. The time complexity of these methods is dominated by the cost of solving a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Gregory Dexter , Agniva Chowdhury , Haim Avron , Petros Drineas

The recently proposed Broximal Point Method (BPM) [Gruntkowska et al., 2025] offers an idealized optimization framework based on iteratively minimizing the objective function over norm balls centered at the current iterate. It enjoys…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Kaja Gruntkowska , Peter Richtárik

The ADMM-based interior point (ABIP, Lin et al. 2021) method is a hybrid algorithm that effectively combines interior point method (IPM) and first-order methods to achieve a performance boost in large-scale linear optimization. Different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Qi Deng , Qing Feng , Wenzhi Gao , Dongdong Ge , Bo Jiang , Yuntian Jiang , Jingsong Liu , Tianhao Liu , Chenyu Xue , Yinyu Ye , Chuwen Zhang

Many problems in statistical learning, imaging, and computer vision involve the optimization of a non-convex objective function with singularities at the boundary of the feasible set. For such challenging instances, we develop a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Pavel Dvurechensky , Mathias Staudigl , César A. Uribe

A stochastic-gradient-based interior-point algorithm for minimizing a continuously differentiable objective function (that may be nonconvex) subject to bound constraints is presented, analyzed, and demonstrated through experimental results.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Frank E. Curtis , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Daniel P. Robinson , Qi Wang

Primal-Dual Interior-Point methods are capable of solving constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances in a fast and robust manner. The derivatives of the primal-dual solution with respect to the problem matrices can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

In this paper, we present an interior point algorithm with a full-Newton step for solving a linearly constrained convex optimization problem, in which we propose a generalization of the work of Kheirfam and Nasrollahi…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Aicha Kraria , Bachir Merikhi , Djamel Benterki