Introductory Lectures on Convex Optimization

Y. Nesterov

ISBN 10: 1402075537 / ISBN 13: 9781402075537

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, US, 2003

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This is an elementary exposition of the main ideas of complexity theory for convex optimization. The book covers optimal methods and lower complexity bounds for smooth and non-smooth convex optimization. A separate chapter is devoted to polynomial-time interior-point methods.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introductory Lectures on Convex Optimization
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, US
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402075537
• ISBN 13: 9781402075537
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 2004 ed.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.88W x 2.54H x 25.4D centimeters 15.88 centimeters width by 2.54 centimeters height by 25.4 centimeters depth
• Weight: 567 grams

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Synopsis

It was in the middle of the 1980s, when the seminal paper by Kar­ markar opened a new epoch in nonlinear optimization. The importance of this paper, containing a new polynomial-time algorithm for linear op­ timization problems, was not only in its complexity bound. At that time, the most surprising feature of this algorithm was that the theoretical pre­ diction of its high efficiency was supported by excellent computational results. This unusual fact dramatically changed the style and direc­ tions of the research in nonlinear optimization. Thereafter it became more and more common that the new methods were provided with a complexity analysis, which was considered a better justification of their efficiency than computational experiments. In a new rapidly develop­ ing field, which got the name "polynomial-time interior-point methods", such a justification was obligatory. Afteralmost fifteen years of intensive research, the main results of this development started to appear in monographs[12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19]. Approximately at that time the author was asked to prepare a new course on nonlinear optimization for graduate students. The idea was to create a course which would reflect the new developments in the field. Actually, this was a major challenge. At the time only the theory of interior-point methods for linear optimization was polished enough to be explained to students. The general theory of self-concordant functions had appeared in print only once in the form of research monograph [12].