Le problème des signes de Thurstone. Une application de la méthode SEP
We describe the solution of a bound constrained convex quadratic problem with limited memory resources. The problem arises from physical simulations occurring within video games. The motivating problem is outlined, along with a simple interior point approach for its solution. Various linear algebra issues arising in the implementation are explored, including preconditioning, ordering and a number of ways of solving an equivalent augmented system. Alternative approaches are briefly surveyed, ...
The numerical solution of granular dynamics problems with Coulomb friction leads to the problem of minimizing a convex quadratic function with semidefinite Hessian subject to a separable conical constraints. In this paper, we are interested in the numerical solution of this problem. We suggest a modification of an active-set optimal quadratic programming algorithm. The number of projection steps is decreased by using a projected Barzilai-Borwein method. In the numerical experiment, we compare our...
In this paper, we show that the direct semidefinite programming (SDP) bound for the nonconvex quadratic optimization problem over ℓ1 unit ball (QPL1) is equivalent to the optimal d.c. (difference between convex) bound for the standard quadratic programming reformulation of QPL1. Then we disprove a conjecture about the tightness of the direct SDP bound. Finally, as an extension of QPL1, we study the relaxation problem of the sparse principal component analysis, denoted by QPL2L1. We show that the...
An algorithm for quadratic minimization with simple bounds is introduced, combining, as many well-known methods do, active set strategies and projection steps. The novelty is that here the criterion for acceptance of a projected trial point is weaker than the usual ones, which are based on monotone decrease of the objective function. It is proved that convergence follows as in the monotone case. Numerical experiments with bound-constrained quadratic problems from CUTE collection show that the modified...
A non-linear semi-coercive beam problem is solved in this article. Suitable numerical methods are presented and their uniform convergence properties with respect to the finite element discretization parameter are proved here. The methods are based on the minimization of the total energy functional, where the descent directions of the functional are searched by solving the linear problems with a beam on bilateral elastic ``springs''. The influence of external loads on the convergence properties is...
In the paper we consider EPCCs with convex quadratic objective functions and one set of complementarity constraints. For this class of problems we propose a possible generalization of the homotopy method for finding stationary points of MPCCs. We analyze the difficulties which arise from this generalization. Numerical results illustrate the performance for randomly generated test problems.
The problem of a thin elastic plate, deflection of which is limited below by a rigid obstacle is solved. Using Ahlin's and Ari-Adini's elements on rectangles, the convergence is established and SOR method with constraints is proposed for numerical solution.