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On the implementation and usage of SDPT3 – a Matlab software package for semidefinite-quadratic-linear programming, version 4.0. (English) Zbl 1334.90117
Anjos, Miguel F. (ed.) et al., Handbook on semidefinite, conic and polynomial optimization. New York, NY: Springer (ISBN 978-1-4614-0768-3/hbk; 978-1-4614-0769-0/ebook). International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 166, 715-754 (2012).
Summary: This software is designed to solve primal and dual semidefinite-quadratic-linear conic programming problems (known as SQLP problems) whose constraint conic is a product of semidefinite conics, second-order conics, nonnegative orthants and Euclidean spaces, and whose objective function is the sum of linear functions and log-barrier terms associated with the constraint conics. This includes the special case of determinant maximization problems with linear matrix inequalities. It employs an infeasible primal-dual predictor-corrector path-following method, with either the HKM or the NT search direction. The basic code is written in Matlab, but key subroutines in C are incorporated via Mex files. Routines are provided to read in problems in either SDPA or SeDuMi format. Sparsity and block diagonal structure are exploited. We also exploit low-rank structures in the constraint matrices associated with the semidefinite blocks if such structures are explicitly given. To help the users in using our software, we also include some examples to illustrate the coding of problem data for our solver. Various techniques to improve the efficiency and robustness of the main solver are incorporated. For example, step-lengths associated with semidefinite conics are calculated via the Lanczos method. The current version also implements algorithms for solving a 3-parameter homogeneous self-dual model of the primal and dual SQLP problems. Routines are also provided to determine whether the primal and dual feasible regions of a given SQLP have empty interiors. Numerical experiments show that this general-purpose code can solve more than 80% of a total of about 430 test problems to an accuracy of at least $$10^{6}$$ in relative duality gap and infeasibilities.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1235.90002].

##### MSC:
 90C22 Semidefinite programming 90C20 Quadratic programming 90C05 Linear programming 90-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming
##### Software:
CHOLMOD; DIMACS; GloptiPoly; HSL; MA57; Matlab; SDPA; SDPLIB; SDPT3; SeDuMi; SparsePOP; UMFPACK
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