Distance-to-Solution Estimates for Optimization Problems with Constraints in Standard Form
by Philip E. Gill, Vyacheslav Kungurtsev, Daniel P. Robinson
Abstract:
An important tool in the formulation and analysis of algorithms for
constrained optimization is a quantity that provides a practical estimate
of the distance to the set of primal-dual solutions. Such
``distance-to-solution estimates'' may be used to identify the inequality
constraints satisfied with equality at a solution, and to formulate
conditions used to terminate a sequence of solution estimates. This note
concerns the properties of a particular distance-to-solution estimate for
optimization problems with constraints written in so-called ``standard
form'', which is a commonly-used approach for formulating constraints with
a mixture of equality and inequality constraints.