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Relaxation Methods for Strictly Convex Regularizations of Piecewise Linear Programs

Journal Article · · Applied Mathematics and Optimization
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/S002459900090· OSTI ID:21067561

We give an algorithm for minimizing the sum of a strictly convex function and a convex piecewise linear function. It extends several dual coordinate ascent methods for large-scale linearly constrained problems that occur in entropy maximization, quadratic programming, and network flows. In particular, it may solve exact penalty versions of such (possibly inconsistent) problems, and subproblems of bundle methods for nondifferentiable optimization. It is simple, can exploit sparsity, and in certain cases is highly parallelizable. Its global convergence is established in the recent framework of B -functions (generalized Bregman functions)

OSTI ID:
21067561
Journal Information:
Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Journal Name: Applied Mathematics and Optimization Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 38; ISSN 0095-4616
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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