Characterizations, bounds, and probabilistic analysis of two complexity measures for linear programming problems |
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Authors: | Michael J. Todd Levent Tunçel Yinyu Ye |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA, e-mail: miketodd@cs.cornell.edu., US;(2) Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada, e-mail: ltuncel@math.uwaterloo.ca., CA;(3) Department of Management Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA, e-mail: yinyu-ye@uiowa.edu., US |
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Abstract: | This note studies A , a condition number used in the linear programming algorithm of Vavasis and Ye [14] whose running time depends only on the constraint matrix A∈ℝ m×n , and (A), a variant of another condition number due to Ye [17] that also arises in complexity analyses of linear programming problems. We provide a new characterization of A and relate A and (A). Furthermore, we show that if A is a standard Gaussian matrix, then E(ln A )=O(min{mlnn,n}). Thus, the expected running time of the Vavasis-Ye algorithm for linear programming problems is bounded by a polynomial in m and n for any right-hand side and objective coefficient vectors when A is randomly generated in this way. As a corollary of the close relation between A and (A), we show that the same bound holds for E(ln(A)). Received: September 1998 / Accepted: September 2000?Published online January 17, 2001 |
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Keywords: | : linear programming – interior-point methods – probabilistic analysis |
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