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Convergence rate analysis of nonquadratic proximal methods for convex and linear programming. (English) Zbl 0845.90099
Summary: The $\phi$-divergence proximal method is an extension of the proximal minimization algorithm, where the usual quadratic proximal term is substituted by a class of convex statistical distances, called $\phi$-divergences. We study the convergence rate of this nonquadratic proximal method for convex and particularly linear programming. We identify a class of $\phi$-divergences for which superlinear convergence is attained both for optimization problems with strongly convex objectives at the optimum and linear programming problems, when the regularization parameters tend to zero. We prove also that with regularization parameters bounded away from zero, convergence is at least linear for a wider class of $\phi$-divergences, when the method is applied to the same kinds of problems. We further analyze the associated class of augmented Lagrangian methods for convex programming with nonquadratic penalty terms, and prove convergence of the dual generated by these methods for linear programming problems under a weak nondegeneracy assumption.
##### MSC:
 90C25 Convex programming 90C05 Linear programming 90C30 Nonlinear programming