Safeguarded augmented Lagrangian algorithms with scaled stopping criterion for the subproblems

At each iteration of the Safeguarded Augmented Lagrangian algorithm Algencan, a bound-constrained subproblem consisting of the minimization of the Powell-Hestenes-Rockafellar augmented Lagrangian function is considered, for which a minimizer with tolerance tending to zero is sought. More precisely, a point that satisfies a subproblem first-order necessary optimality condition with tolerance tending to zero is required. … Read more

On scaled stopping criteria for a safeguarded augmented Lagrangian method with theoretical guarantees

This paper discusses the use of a stopping criterion based on the scaling of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions by the norm of the approximate Lagrange multiplier in the ALGENCAN implementation of a safeguarded augmented Lagrangian method. Such stopping criterion is already used in several nonlinear programming solvers, but it has not yet been considered in … Read more