In model-predictive control (MPC), an optimization problem has to be solved at each time step, which in real-time applications makes it important solve these efficiently and have good upper bounds on worst-case solution time. Often for linear MPC problems, the question is a quadratic program (QP) that depends parameters such as system states reference signals. A popular class of methods solving...

A sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method is presented that aims to overcome some of the drawbacks of contemporary SQP methods. It avoids the difficulties associated with indefinite quadratic programming subproblems by defining this subproblem to be always convex. The novel feature of the approach is the addition of an equality constrained phase that promotes fast convergence and improves...

This paper describes a new technique for generating convex, strictly concave and indeenite (bilinear or not) quadratic programming problems. These problems have a number of properties that make them useful for test purposes. For example, strictly concave quadratic problems with their global maximum in the interior of the feasible domain and with an exponential number of local minima with distin...

We consider symmetrized KKT systems arising in the solution of convex quadratic programming problems in standard form by Interior Point methods. Their coefficient matrices usually have 3×3 block structure and, under suitable conditions on both the quadratic programming problem and the solution, they are nonsingular in the limit. We present new spectral estimates for these matrices: the new boun...

Range-space methods for convex quadratic programming improve in efficiency as the number of constraints active at the solution decreases. In this paper we describe a range-space method based upon updating a weighted Gram-Schmidt factorization of the constraints in the active set. The updating methods described are applicable to both primal and dual quadratic programming algorithms that use an a...

A recurrent neural network called the dual neural network is proposed in this Letter for solving the strictly convex quadratic programming problems. Compared to other recurrent neural networks, the proposed dual network with fewer neurons can solve quadratic programming problems subject to equality, inequality, and bound constraints. The dual neural network is shown to be globally exponentially...

In this paper we consider l0 regularized convex cone programming problems. In particular, we first propose an iterative hard thresholding (IHT) method and its variant for solving l0 regularized box constrained convex programming. We show that the sequence generated by these methods converges to a local minimizer. Also, we establish the iteration complexity of the IHT method for finding an -loca...

In 1956, Frank and Wolfe extended the fundamental existence theorem of linear programming by proving that an arbitrary quadratic function f attains its minimum over a nonempty convex polyhedral set X provided f is bounded from below over X . We show that a similar statement holds if f is a convex polynomial and X is the solution set of a system of convex polynomial inequalities. In fact, this r...