An inexact spectral bundle method for convex quadratic semidefinite programming

  • Authors:
  • Huiling Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore 637371 and School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fujian ...

  • Venue:
  • Computational Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present an inexact spectral bundle method for solving convex quadratic semidefinite optimization problems. This method is a first-order method, hence requires much less computational cost in each iteration than second-order approaches such as interior-point methods. In each iteration of our method, we solve an eigenvalue minimization problem inexactly, and solve a small convex quadratic semidefinite program as a subproblem. We give a proof of the global convergence of this method using techniques from the analysis of the standard bundle method, and provide a global error bound under a Slater type condition for the problem in question. Numerical experiments with matrices of order up to 3000 are performed, and the computational results establish the effectiveness of this method.