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Publication
SIAM Journal on Optimization
Paper
Adaptive barrier update strategies for nonlinear interior methods
Abstract
This paper considers strategies for selecting the barrier parameter at every iteration of an interior-point method for nonlinear programming. Numerical experiments suggest that heuristic adaptive choices, such as Mehrotra's probing procedure, outperform monotone strategies that hold the barrier parameter fixed until a barrier optimality test is satisfied. A new adaptive strategy is proposed based on the minimization of a quality function. The paper also proposes a globalization framework that ensures the convergence of adaptive interior methods, and examines convergence failures of the Mehrotra predictor-corrector algorithm. The barrier update strategies proposed in this paper are applicable to a wide class of interior methods and are tested in the two distinct algorithmic frameworks provided by the IPOPT and KNITRO software packages. © 2009 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.