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The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful optimization solver in machine learning. Recently, stochastic ADMM has been integrated with variance reduction methods for stochastic gradient, leading to SAG-ADMM and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Shuai Zheng , James T. Kwok

We present a novel framework, namely AADMM, for acceleration of linearized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). The basic idea of AADMM is to incorporate a multi-step acceleration scheme into linearized ADMM. We demonstrate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-13 Yuyuan Ouyang , Yunmei Chen , Guanghui Lan , Eduardo Pasiliao

Sparse signal recovery based on nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems has significant applications and demonstrates superior performance in signal processing and machine learning. This work deals with a scale-invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Lang Yu , Nanjing Huang

This paper focuses on stochastic proximal gradient methods for optimizing a smooth non-convex loss function with a non-smooth non-convex regularizer and convex constraints. To the best of our knowledge we present the first non-asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

We address the problem of solving convex optimization problems with many convex constraints in a distributed setting. Our approach is based on an extension of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) that recently gained a lot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Joachim Giesen , Sören Laue

We provide a new proof of the linear convergence of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) when one of the objective terms is strongly convex. Our proof is based on a framework for analyzing optimization algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Robert Nishihara , Laurent Lessard , Benjamin Recht , Andrew Packard , Michael I. Jordan

In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive analysis on the linear rate convergence of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained convex composite optimization problems. Under a certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Deren Han , Defeng Sun , Liwei Zhang

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) proposed by Glowinski and Marrocco is a benchmark algorithm for two-block separable convex optimization problems with linear equality constraints. It has been modified, specified, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Bingsheng He , Shengjie Xu , Xiaoming Yuan

Stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), which visits only one sample or a mini-batch of samples each time, has recently been proved to achieve better performance than batch ADMM. However, most stochastic methods can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Shen-Yi Zhao , Wu-Jun Li , Zhi-Hua Zhou

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is a powerful and flexible tool for complex optimization problems of the form $\min\{f(x)+g(y) : Ax+By=c\}$. ADMM exhibits robust empirical performance across a range of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Rina Foygel Barber , Emil Y. Sidky

We propose a new relative-error inexact version of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for convex optimization. We prove the asymptotic convergence of our main algorithm as well as pointwise and ergodic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 M. Marques Alves , M. Geremia

The generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) of Xiao et al. [{\tt Math. Prog. Comput., 2018}] aims at the two-block linearly constrained composite convex programming problem, in which each block is in the form of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Hongwu Li , Haibin Zhang , Yunhai Xiao

We study a class of nonsmooth stochastic optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds. In this work, we propose MARS-ADMM, the first stochastic Riemannian alternating direction method of multipliers with provable near-optimal complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jiachen Jin , Kangkang Deng , Hongxia Wang

This paper discusses the adaptive sampling problem in a nonholonomic mobile robotic sensor network for efficiently monitoring a spatial field. It is proposed to employ Gaussian process to model a spatial phenomenon and predict it at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Viet-Anh Le , Linh Nguyen , Truong X. Nghiem

In this paper, we study a class of non-convex optimization problems known as multi-affine quadratic equality constrained problems, which appear in various applications--from generating feasible force trajectories in robotic locomotion and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Yutong Chao , Michal Ciebielski , Jalal Etesami , Majid Khadiv

Numerous problems in machine learning are formulated as optimization with manifold constraints. In this paper, we propose the Manifold alternating directions method of multipliers (MADMM), an extension of the classical ADMM scheme for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Artiom Kovnatsky , Klaus Glashoff , Michael M. Bronstein

We present a flexible Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (F-ADMM) algorithm for solving optimization problems involving a strongly convex objective function that is separable into $n \geq 2$ blocks, subject to (non-separable)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Daniel P. Robinson , Rachael E. H. Tappenden

Large scale, non-convex optimization problems arising in many complex networks such as the power system call for efficient and scalable distributed optimization algorithms. Existing distributed methods are usually iterative and require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-26 Junyao Guo , Gabriela Hug , Ozan Tonguz

Nonconvex and structured optimization problems arise in many engineering applications that demand scalable and distributed solution methods. The study of the convergence properties of these methods is in general difficult due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-04 Sindri Magnússon , Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana , Michael G. Rabbat , Carlo Fischione

This paper investigates solving convex composite optimization on an undirected network, where each node, privately endowed with a smooth component function and a nonsmooth one, is required to minimize the sum of all the component functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Xuyang Wu , Jie Lu