An Interior-Point Method for Approximate Positive Semidefinite Completions

  • Authors:
  • Charles R. Johnson;Brenda Kroschel;Henry Wolkowicz

  • Affiliations:
  • College of William & Mary, Department of Mathematics, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795. E-mail: crjohnso@cs.wm.edu, kroschel@cs.wm.edu;College of William & Mary, Department of Mathematics, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795. E-mail: crjohnso@cs.wm.edu, kroschel@cs.wm.edu;University of Waterloo, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada, URL: http://orion.uwaterloo.ca/˜hwolkowi. E-mail: henry@orion.uwaterloo.ca

  • Venue:
  • Computational Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Given a nonnegative, symmetric matrix of weights, H, westudy the problem of finding an Hermitian, positive semidefinite matrixwhich is closest to a given Hermitian matrix, A, with respectto the weighting H. This extends the notion of exact matrixcompletion problems in that, H_ij=0 corresponds to theelement A_ij being unspecified (free),while H_ij large in absolute value corresponds to the elementA_ij being approximately specified (fixed).We present optimality conditions, duality theory, and two primal-dualinterior-point algorithms. Because of sparsity considerations, thedual-step-first algorithm is more efficient for a large number of freeelements, while the primal-step-first algorithm is more efficient for alarge number of fixed elements.Included are numerical tests that illustrate the efficiency androbustness of the algorithms