A primal-dual infeasible-interior-point algorithm for linear programming

As in many primal-dual interior-point algorithms, a primal-dual infeasible-interior-point algorithm chooses a new point along the Newton direction towards a point on the central trajectory, but it does not confine the iterates within the feasible region. This paper proposes a step length rule with which the algorithm takes large distinct step lengths in the primal and dual spaces and enjoys the global convergence. © 1993 The Mathematical Programming Society, Inc.