A full-Newton step infeasible interior-point algorithm based on a kernel function with a new barrier term

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a full-Newton step infeasible interior-point algorithm (IPA) for solving linear optimization problems based on a new kernel function (KF). The latter belongs to the newly introduced hyperbolic type (Guerdouh et al. in An efficient primal-dual interior point algorithm for linear optimization problems based on a novel parameterized kernel function with a hyperbolic barrier term, 2021; Touil and Chikouche in Acta Math Appl Sin Engl Ser 38:44–67, 2022; Touil and Chikouche in Filomat 34:3957–3969, 2020). Unlike feasible IPAs, our algorithm doesn’t require a feasible starting point. In each iteration, the new feasibility search directions are computed using the newly introduced hyperbolic KF whereas the centering search directions are obtained using the classical KF. A simple analysis for the primal-dual infeasible interior-point method (IIPM) based on the new KF shows that the iteration bound of the algorithm matches the currently best iteration bound for IIPMs. We consolidate these theoretical results by performing some numerical experiments in which we compare our algorithm with the famous SeDuMi solver. To our knowledge, this is the first full-Newton step IIPM based on a KF with a hyperbolic barrier term.