[R] Quadratic Programming
Berwin A Turlach
berwin at maths.uwa.edu.au
Sat Feb 16 08:21:52 CET 2008
G'day Jorge,
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:51:16 -0500
"Jorge Aseff" <jgaseff at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using solve.QP (from quadprog) to solve a standard quadratic
> programming problem: min_w -0.5*w'Qw st ... I would like solve.QP to
> do two things: 1) to start the optimization from a user-supplied
> initial condition; i.e., from a vector w_0 that satisfies the
> constraints,
Not possible. solve.QP is based on the Goldfarb-Idnani algorithm which
first calculates the unconstrained solution of the problem and then
checks for violated constraints; if such exist, then they are
iteratively enforced until all constraints are satisfied.
If you want to specify starting values (or have warm starts), then you
would need to use other kind of algorithms.
> and 2) to return the values of the lagrange multiplieres
> associated with the constraints.
See:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-December/047636.html
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Berrwin
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