摘要
In this paper we consider the general cone programming problem, and propose primal-dual convex (smooth and/or nonsmooth) minimization reformulations for it. We then discuss first-order methods suitable for solving these reformulations, namely, Nesterov’s optimal method (Nesterov in Doklady AN SSSR 269:5438211;547, 1983; Math Program 103:1278211;152, 2005), Nesterov’s smooth approximation scheme (Nesterov in Math Program 103:1278211;152, 2005), and Nemirovski’s prox-method (Nemirovski in SIAM J Opt 15:2298211;251, 2005), and propose a variant of Nesterov’s optimal method which has outperformed the latter one in our computational experiments. We also derive iteration-complexity bounds for these first-order methods applied to the proposed primal-dual reformulations of the cone programming problem. The performance of these methods is then compared using a set of randomly generated linear programming and semidefinite programming instances. We also compare the approach based on the variant of Nesterov’s optimal method with the low-rank method proposed by Burer and Monteiro (Math Program Ser B 95:3298211;357, 2003; Math Program 103:4278211;444, 2005) for solving a set of randomly generated SDP instances.