Title
Iterative Reweighted Linear Least Squares for Exact Penalty Subproblems on Product Sets.
Abstract
We present two matrix-free methods for solving exact penalty subproblems on product sets that arise when solving large-scale optimization problems. The first approach is a novel iterative reweighting algorithm (IRWA), which iteratively minimizes quadratic models of relaxed subproblems while automatically updating a relaxation vector. The second approach is based on alternating direction augmented Lagrangian (ADAL) technology applied to our setting. The main computational costs of each algorithm are the repeated minimizations of convex quadratic functions which can be performed matrix-free. We prove that both algorithms are globally convergent under loose assumptions and that each requires at most O(1/epsilon(2)) iterations to reach epsilon-optimality of the objective function. Numerical experiments exhibit the ability of both algorithms to efficiently find inexact solutions. However, in certain cases, these experiments indicate that IRWA can be significantly more efficient than ADAL.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1137/130950239
SIAM JOURNAL ON OPTIMIZATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
convex composite optimization,nonlinear optimization,exact penalty methods,iterative reweighting methods,augmented Lagrangian methods,alternating direction methods
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1052-6234
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James V. Burke1753113.35
Frank Curtis262.02
Hao Wang3111.64
Jiashan Wang400.34