This paper introduces a new exact and smooth penalty function to tackle constrained min-max problems. By using this new penalty function and adding just one extra variable, a constrained rain-max problem is transforme...This paper introduces a new exact and smooth penalty function to tackle constrained min-max problems. By using this new penalty function and adding just one extra variable, a constrained rain-max problem is transformed into an unconstrained optimization one. It is proved that, under certain reasonable assumptions and when the penalty parameter is sufficiently large, the minimizer of this unconstrained optimization problem is equivalent to the minimizer of the original constrained one. Numerical results demonstrate that this penalty function method is an effective and promising approach for solving constrained finite min-max problems.展开更多
基金supported by the Grant of the Academy of Mathematics and System Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences-The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Joint Research Institute (AMSS-PolyU)the Research Grands Council Grant of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (No. 5365/09E)
文摘This paper introduces a new exact and smooth penalty function to tackle constrained min-max problems. By using this new penalty function and adding just one extra variable, a constrained rain-max problem is transformed into an unconstrained optimization one. It is proved that, under certain reasonable assumptions and when the penalty parameter is sufficiently large, the minimizer of this unconstrained optimization problem is equivalent to the minimizer of the original constrained one. Numerical results demonstrate that this penalty function method is an effective and promising approach for solving constrained finite min-max problems.
