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Approximate KKT points and a proximity measure for termination
Authors:Joydeep Dutta  Kalyanmoy Deb  Rupesh Tulshyan  Ramnik Arora
Institution:1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India
2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India
3. Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, New York University, New York, USA
Abstract:Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions are often checked for investigating whether a solution obtained by an optimization algorithm is a likely candidate for the optimum. In this study, we report that although the KKT conditions must all be satisfied at the optimal point, the extent of violation of KKT conditions at points arbitrarily close to the KKT point is not smooth, thereby making the KKT conditions difficult to use directly to evaluate the performance of an optimization algorithm. This happens due to the requirement of complimentary slackness condition associated with KKT optimality conditions. To overcome this difficulty, we define modified ${\epsilon}$ -KKT points by relaxing the complimentary slackness and equilibrium equations of KKT conditions and suggest a KKT-proximity measure, that is shown to reduce sequentially to zero as the iterates approach the KKT point. Besides the theoretical development defining the modified ${\epsilon}$ -KKT point, we present extensive computer simulations of the proposed methodology on a set of iterates obtained through an evolutionary optimization algorithm to illustrate the working of our proposed procedure on smooth and non-smooth problems. The results indicate that the proposed KKT-proximity measure can be used as a termination condition to optimization algorithms. As a by-product, the method helps to find Lagrange multipliers correspond to near-optimal solutions which can be of importance to practitioners. We also provide a comparison of our KKT-proximity measure with the stopping criterion used in popular commercial softwares.
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