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A Family of Search Directions for Karmarkar's Algorithm

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  • Kurt M. Anstreicher

    (University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa)

  • Patrick Watteyne

    (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

Abstract

We consider a new family of search directions for the standard form variant of Karmarkar's projective linear programming algorithm. The family includes the usual projected gradient direction, and also a direction first proposed by Mike Todd. We prove that any choice from the family preserves the algorithm's polynomial-time complexity. We then examine the computational behavior of the algorithm using different choices of directions. Although the theoretical complexity is the same for the different directions, in practice we find wide variations in algorithm performance. One particular choice consistently requires about 20% fewer iterations than the usual direction, while another requires a number of iterations which grows rapidly with problem size. Our computational results also demonstrate that a small number of monotonic steps on early iterations may considerably improve the performance of the algorithm.

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  • Kurt M. Anstreicher & Patrick Watteyne, 1993. "A Family of Search Directions for Karmarkar's Algorithm," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 41(4), pages 759-767, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:41:y:1993:i:4:p:759-767
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.41.4.759
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