A SELF-REGULAR NEWTON BASED ALGORITHM FOR LINEAR OPTIMIZATION

In this paper, using the framework of self-regularity, we propose a hybrid adaptive algorithm for the linear optimization problem. If the current iterates are far from a central path, the algorithm employs a self-regular search direction, otherwise the classical Newton search direction is employed. This feature of the algorithm allows us to prove a worst case iteration bound. Our result matches the best iteration bound obtained by the pure self-regular approach and improves on the worst case iteration bound of the classical algorithm.