Convergence to a second-order critical point of composite nonsmooth problems by a trust region method

An algorithm for finding a first-order and second-order critical point of composite nonsmooth problems is proposed in this paper. For smooth problems, algorithms for searching such a point usually utilize the so called negative-curvature directions. In this paper, the method recently proposed for nonlinear semidefinite problems by the current author is extended for solving general … Read more

Error bounds for nonlinear semidefinite optimization

In this paper, error bounds for nonlinear semidefinite optimization problem is considered. We assume the second order sufficient condition, the strict complementarity condition and the MFCQ condition at the KKT point. The nondegeneracy condition is not assumed in this paper. Therefore the Jacobian operator of the equality part of the KKT conditions is not assumed … Read more

An interior point method with a primal-dual quadratic barrier penalty function for nonlinear semidefinite programming

In this paper, we consider an interior point method for nonlinear semidefinite programming. Yamashita, Yabe and Harada presented a primal-dual interior point method in which a nondifferentiable merit function was used. By using shifted barrier KKT conditions, we propose a differentiable primal-dual merit function within the framework of the line search strategy, and prove the … Read more

Local and superlinear convergence of a primal-dual interior point method for nonlinear semidefinite programming

In this paper, we consider a primal-dual interior point method for solving nonlinear semidefinite programming problems. We propose primal-dual interior point methods based on the unscaled and scaled Newton methods, which correspond to the AHO, HRVW/KSH/M and NT search directions in linear SDP problems. We analyze local behavior of our proposed methods and show their … Read more

A globally convergent trust-region SQP method without a penalty function for nonlinearly constrained optimization

In this paper, we propose a new trust-region SQP method, which uses no penalty function, for solving nonlinearly constrained optimization problem. Our method consists of alternate two phases. Specifically, we alternately proceed the feasibility restoration phase and the objective function minimization phase. The global convergence property of the proposed method is shown. CitationCooperative Research Report … Read more

A primal-dual interior point method for nonlinear semidefinite programming

In this paper, we consider a primal-dual interior point method for solving nonlinear semidefinite programming problems. By combining the primal barrier penalty function and the primal-dual barrier function, a new primal-dual merit function is proposed within the framework of the line search strategy. We show the global convergence property of our method. Finally some numerical … Read more

A primal-dual interior point method for nonlinear optimization over second order cones

In this paper, we are concerned with nonlinear minimization problems with second order cone constraints. A primal-dual interior point method is proposed for solving the problems. We also propose a new primal-dual merit function by combining the barrier penalty function and the potential function within the framework of the line search strategy, and show the … Read more