Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, Yu-Wei, Lin, Gui-Hua, Zhu, Xide
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15149
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866916129052557312
author Li, Yu-Wei
Lin, Gui-Hua
Zhu, Xide
author_facet Li, Yu-Wei
Lin, Gui-Hua
Zhu, Xide
contents This paper focuses on developing effective algorithms for solving bilevel program. The most popular approach is to replace the lower-level problem by its Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions to generate a mathematical program with complementarity constraints (MPCC). However, MPCC does not satisfy the Mangasarian-Fromovitz constraint qualification (MFCQ) at any feasible point. In this paper, inspired by a recent work using the lower-level Wolfe duality (WDP), we apply the lower-level Mond-Weir duality to present a new reformulation, called MDP, for bilevel program. It is shown that, under mild assumptions, they are equivalent in globally or locally optimal sense. An example is given to show that, different from MPCC, MDP may satisfy the MFCQ at its feasible points. Relations among MDP, WDP, and MPCC are investigated. Furthermore, in order to compare the new MDP approach with the MPCC and WDP approaches, we design a procedure to generate 150 tested problems randomly and comprehensive numerical experiments showed that MDP has evident advantages over MPCC and WDP in terms of feasibility to the original bilevel programs, success efficiency, and average CPU time.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2306_15149
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Solving bilevel programs based on lower-level Mond-Weir duality
Li, Yu-Wei
Lin, Gui-Hua
Zhu, Xide
Optimization and Control
This paper focuses on developing effective algorithms for solving bilevel program. The most popular approach is to replace the lower-level problem by its Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions to generate a mathematical program with complementarity constraints (MPCC). However, MPCC does not satisfy the Mangasarian-Fromovitz constraint qualification (MFCQ) at any feasible point. In this paper, inspired by a recent work using the lower-level Wolfe duality (WDP), we apply the lower-level Mond-Weir duality to present a new reformulation, called MDP, for bilevel program. It is shown that, under mild assumptions, they are equivalent in globally or locally optimal sense. An example is given to show that, different from MPCC, MDP may satisfy the MFCQ at its feasible points. Relations among MDP, WDP, and MPCC are investigated. Furthermore, in order to compare the new MDP approach with the MPCC and WDP approaches, we design a procedure to generate 150 tested problems randomly and comprehensive numerical experiments showed that MDP has evident advantages over MPCC and WDP in terms of feasibility to the original bilevel programs, success efficiency, and average CPU time.
title Solving bilevel programs based on lower-level Mond-Weir duality
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15149