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I never really understood that. Is there a commonly understood "reason" why IP methods are typically slower in practice?

Seems going through the interior you'd quicker approach a good solution than when being confined to the boundary. But maybe that difference is less important in high dimensions.



Calculating derivatives is the most expensive and numerically challenging operation you do in optimization.

Simplex circumvents these issues by traversing the edges of the polytope.

Pivoting is very cheap and from practice we see that you are afforded a LOT of iterations before even start thinking about interior point methods.




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