solve.QP.compact {quadprog}R Documentation

Solve a Quadratic Programming Problem

Description

This routine implements the dual method of Goldfarb and Idnani (1982, 1983) for solving quadratic programming problems of the form min(-d^T b + 1/2 b^T D b) with the constraints A^T b >= b_0.

Usage

solve.QP.compact(Dmat, dvec, Amat, Aind, bvec, meq=0, factorized=FALSE)

Arguments

Dmat matrix appearing in the quadratic function to be minimized.
dvec vector appearing in the quadratic function to be minimized.
Amat matrix containing the non-zero elements of the matrix A that defines the constraints. If m_i denotes the number of non-zero elements in the i-th column of A then the first m_i entries of the i-th column of Amat hold these non-zero elements. (If maxmi denotes the maximum of all m_i, then each column of Amat may have arbitrary elements from row m_i+1 to row maxmi in the i-th column.)
Aind matrix of integers. The first element of each column gives the number of non-zero elements in the corresponding column of the matrix A. The following entries in each column contain the indexes of the rows in which these non-zero elements are.
bvec vector holding the values of b_0 (defaults to zero).
meq the first meq constraints are treated as equality constraints, all further as inequality constraints (defaults to 0).
factorized logical flag: if TRUE, then we are passing R^(-1) (where D = R^T R) instead of the matrix D in the argument Dmat.

Value

a list with the following components:

solution vector containing the solution of the quadratic programming problem.
value scalar, the value of the quadratic function at the solution
unconstrained.solution vector containing the unconstrained minimizer of the quadratic function.
iterations vector of length 2, the first component contains the number of iterations the algorithm needed, the second indicates how often constraints became inactive after becoming active first. vector with the indices of the active constraints at the solution.

References

Goldfarb, D. and Idnani, A. (1982). Dual and Primal-Dual Methods for Solving Strictly Convex Quadratic Programs. In Numerical Analysis J.P. Hennart, ed. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 226-239.

Goldfarb, D. and Idnani, A. (1983). A numerically stable dual method for solving strictly convex quadratic programs. Mathematical Programming 27, 1-33.

See Also

solve.QP

Examples

#
# Assume we want to minimize: -(0 5 0) %*% b + 1/2 b^T b
# under the constraints:      A^T b >= b0
# with b0 = (-8,2,0)^T
# and      (-4  2  0) 
#      A = (-3  1 -2)
#          ( 0  0  1)
# we can use solve.QP.compact as follows:
#
Dmat       <- matrix(0,3,3)
diag(Dmat) <- 1
dvec       <- c(0,5,0)
Aind       <- rbind(c(2,2,2),c(1,1,2),c(2,2,3))
Amat       <- rbind(c(-4,2,-2),c(-3,1,1))
bvec       <- c(-8,2,0)
solve.QP.compact(Dmat,dvec,Amat,Aind,bvec=bvec)

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