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We analyze the convergence properties of the consensus-alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving general quadratically constrained quadratic programs. We prove that the augmented Lagrangian function value is…
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The augmented Lagrange method is employed to address the optimal control problem involving pointwise state constraints in parabolic equations. The strong convergence of the primal variables and the weak convergence of the dual variables are…
In this paper, we propose an inexact Augmented Lagrangian Method (ALM) for the optimization of convex and nonsmooth objective functions subject to linear equality constraints and box constraints where errors are due to fixed-point data. To…
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Nonconvex and nonsmooth problems have recently attracted considerable attention in machine learning. However, developing efficient methods for the nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems with certain performance guarantee remains a…
In ptychography experiments, redundant scanning is usually required to guarantee the stable recovery, such that a huge amount of frames are generated, and thus it poses a great demand of parallel computing in order to solve this large-scale…
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Local convergence analysis of the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) is established for a large class of composite optimization problems with nonunique Lagrange multipliers under a second-order sufficient condition. We present a new…
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