Complexity of primal-dual interior-point algorithm for linear programming based on a new class of kernel functions

summary:In this paper, we first present a polynomial-time primal-dual interior-point method (IPM) for solving linear programming (LP) problems, based on a new kernel function (KF) with a hyperbolic-logarithmic barrier term. To improve the iteration bound, we propose a parameterized version of this function. We show that the complexity result meets the currently best iteration bound for large-update methods by choosing a special value of the parameter. Numerical experiments reveal that the new KFs have better results comparing with the existing KFs including $\log t$ in their barrier term. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first IPM based on a parameterized hyperbolic-logarithmic KF. Moreover, it contains the first hyperbolic-logarithmic KF (Touil and Chikouche in Filomat 34:3957-3969, 2020) as a special case up to a multiplicative constant, and improves significantly both its theoretical and practical results