Hyper-sparsity in the revised simplex method and how to exploit it

The revised simplex method is often the method of choice when solving large scale sparse linear programming problems, particularly when a family of closely-related problems is to be solved. Each iteration of the revised simplex method requires the solution of two linear systems and a matrix vector product. For a significant number of practical problems … Read more

Warm start strategies in interior-point methods for linear programming

We study the situation in which, having solved a linear program with an interior-point method, we are presented with a new problem instance whose data is slightly perturbed from the original. We describe strategies for recovering a “warm-start” point for the perturbed problem instance from the iterates of the original problem instance. We obtain worst-case … Read more

A New Class of Polynomial Primal-Dual Methods for Linear and Semidefinite Optimization

We propose a new class of primal-dual methods for linear optimization (LO). By using some new analysis tools, we prove that the large update method for LO based on the new search direction has a polynomial complexity $O\br{n^{\frac{4}{4+\rho}}\log\frac{n}{\e}}$ iterations where $\rho\in [0,2]$ is a parameter used in the system defining the search direction. If $\rho=0$, … Read more