In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm for solving large-scale separable convex problems using Lagrangian dual decomposition and the interior-point framework. By adding self-concordant barrier terms to the ordinary Lagrangian we prove under mild assumptions that the corresponding family of augmented dual functions is self-concordant. This makes it possible to efficiently use the Newton … Read more
Given a separable strongly self-concordant function f:Rn -> R, we show the associated spectral function F(X)= (foL)(X) is also strongly self-concordant function. In addition, there is a universal constant O such that, if f(x) is separable self-concordant barrier then O^2F(X) is a self-concordant barrier. We estimate that for the universal constant we have O
In this paper we introduce a new barrier function $\sum\limits_{i=1}^n(2x_i-1)[\ln{x_i}-\ln(1-x_i)]$ to solve the following optimization problem: $\min\,\, f(x)$ subject to: $Ax=b;\;\;0\leq x\leq e$. We show that this function is a $(3/2)n$-self-concordant barrier on the hypercube $[0,1]^n$. We prove that the central path is well defined and that under an additional assumption on the objective function, … Read more