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Homogeneous Analytic Center Cutting Plane Methods with Approximate Centers
Nesterov Yu., O. Peton, J.-Ph Vial
In this paper we consider a homogeneous analytic center cutting plane
method in a projective space. We describe a general scheme that uses a
homogeneous oracle and computes an approximate analytic center at each
iteration. This technique is applied to a convex feasibility problem,
to variational inequalities, and to convex constrained minimization.
We prove that these problems can be solved with the same order of
complexity as in the case of exact analytic centers. For the
feasibility and the minimization problems rough approximations
suffice, but very high precision is required for the variational
inequalities. We give an exemple of variational inequality where even
the first analytic center needs to be computed with a precision
matching the precision required for the solution.
Keywords : Cutting plane, approximate analytic centers,
self-concordant functions, variational inequalities.
HEC Technical Report 98.3,
Department of Management Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland,
February 1998
Contact: peton@hec.unige.ch