Yuen-Lam Cheung Suppose that we are given a feasible conic program with a finite optimal value and with strong duality failing. It is known that there are small perturbations of the problem data that lead to relatively big changes in the optimal value. We quantify the notion of big change in the case of a semidefinite program … Read more
This paper presents a backward stable preprocessing technique for (nearly) ill-posed semidefinite programming, SDP, problems, i.e.,~programs for which Slater’s constraint qualification, existence of strictly feasible points, (nearly) fails. Current popular algorithms for semidefinite programming rely on \emph{primal-dual interior-point, p-d i-p} methods. These algorithms require Slater’s constraint qualification for both the primal and dual problems. This … Read more