Complementarity Problems over Symmetric Cones: A Survey of Recent Developments in Several Aspects

The complementarity problem over a symmetric cone (that we call the Symmetric Cone Complementarity Problem, or the SCCP) has received much attention of researchers in the last decade. Most of studies done on the SCCP can be categorized into the three research themes, interior point methods for the SCCP, merit or smoothing function methods for … Read more

Complexity of variants of Tseng’s modified F-B splitting and Korpelevich’s methods for generalized variational inequalities with applications to saddle point and convex optimization problems

In this paper, we consider both a variant of Tseng’s modified forward-backward splitting method and an extension of Korpelevich’s method for solving generalized variational inequalities with Lipschitz continuous operators. By showing that these methods are special cases of the hybrid proximal extragradient (HPE) method introduced by Solodov and Svaiter, we derive iteration-complexity bounds for them … Read more

Proximal alternating direction-based contraction methods for separable linearly constrained convex optimization

Alternating direction method (ADM) has been well studied in the context of linearly constrained convex programming problems. Recently, because of its significant efficiency and easy implementation in novel applications, ADM is extended to the case where the number of separable parts is a finite number. The algorithmic framework of the extended method consists of two … Read more

Achieving Higher Frequencies in Large-Scale Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

We present new insights into how to achieve higher frequencies in large-scale nonlinear predictive control using truncated-like schemes. The basic idea is that, instead of solving the full nonlinear programming (NLP) problem at each sampling time, we solve a single, truncated quadratic programming (QP) problem. We present conditions guaranteeing stability of the approximation error derived … Read more

The Globally Uniquely Solvable Property of Second-Order Cone Linear Complementarity Problems

The globally uniquely solvable (GUS) property of the linear transformation of the linear complementarity problems over symmetric cones has been studied recently by Gowda et al. via the approach of Euclidean Jordan algebra. In this paper, we contribute a new approach to characterizing the GUS property of the linear transformation of the second-order cone linear … Read more

Nonconvergence of the plain Newton-min algorithm for linear complementarity problems with a hBcmatrix

The plain Newton-min algorithm to solve the linear complementarity problem (LCP for short) $0\leq x\perp(Mx+q)\geq0$ can be viewed as a nonsmooth Newton algorithm without globalization technique to solve the system of piecewise linear equations $\min(x,Mx+q)=0$, which is equivalent to the LCP. When $M$ is an $M$-matrix of order~$n$, the algorithm is known to converge in … Read more

The unified framework of some proximal-based decomposition methods for monotone variational inequalities with separable structure

Some existing decomposition methods for solving a class of variational inequalities (VI) with separable structures are closely related to the classical proximal point algorithm, as their decomposed sub-VIs are regularized by proximal terms. Differing in whether the generated sub-VIs are suitable for parallel computation, these proximal-based methods can be categorized into the parallel decomposition methods … Read more

Stability Analysis of Two Stage Stochastic Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints via NLP-Regularization

This paper presents numerical approximation schemes for a two stage stochastic programming problem where the second stage problem has a general nonlinear complementarity constraint: first, the complementarity constraint is approximated by a parameterized system of inequalities with a well-known regularization approach (SIOPT, Vol.11, 918-936) in deterministic mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints; the distribution of the … Read more

On the complexity of computing the handicap of a sufficient matrix

The class of sufficient matrices is important in the study of the linear complementarity problem(LCP) – some interior point methods (IPM’s) for LCP’s with sufficient data matrices have complexity polynomial in the bit size of the matrix and its handicap. In this paper we show that the handicap of a sufficient matrix may be exponential … Read more