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This paper proposes a proximal variant of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for distributed optimization. Although the current versions of ADMM algorithm provide promising numerical results in producing solutions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Reza Mirzaeifard , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Alexander Jung , Stefan Werner

Many real-world optimization models contain exploitable sparsity and block structure, but this structure is often obscured in algebraic form, limiting the effectiveness of modern parallel algorithms. We propose an automatic pipeline that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Kaizhao Sun , Baihao Wu , Kun Yuan , Wotao Yin

By coordinating terminal smart devices or microprocessors to engage in cooperative computation to achieve systemlevel targets, distributed optimization is incrementally favored by both engineering and computer science. The well-known…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yu Yang , Xiaohong Guan , Qing-Shan Jia , Liang Yu , Bolun Xu , Costas J. Spanos

We propose new methods to speed up convergence of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), a common optimization tool in the context of large scale and distributed learning. The proposed method accelerates the speed of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Changkyu Song , Sejong Yoon , Vladimir Pavlovic

The alternating direction method with multipliers (ADMM) has been one of most powerful and successful methods for solving various composite problems. The convergence of the conventional ADMM (i.e., 2-block) for convex objective functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Fenghui Wang , Wenfei Cao , Zongben Xu

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is widely used for solving large-scale semidefinite programs (SDPs), yet on instances with multiple primal-dual optimal solution pairs, it often enters prolonged slow-convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Shucheng Kang , Heng Yang

Consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a separable nonsmooth convex function subject to linear coupling constraints. Problems of this form arise in many contemporary applications including signal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Mingyi Hong , Tsung-Hui Chang , Xiangfeng Wang , Meisam Razaviyayn , Shiqian Ma , Zhi-Quan Luo

We consider a class of distributed optimization problem where the objective function consists of a sum of strongly convex and smooth functions and a (possibly nonsmooth) convex regularizer. A multi-agent network is assumed, where each agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Yichuan Li , Yonghai Gong , Nikolaos M. Freris , Petros Voulgaris , Dusan Stipanovic

This work presents a parallel variant of the algorithm introduced in [Acceleration of block coordinate descent methods with identification strategies Comput. Optim. Appl. 72(3):609--640, 2019] to minimize the sum of a partially separable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Ronaldo Lopes , Sandra A. Santos , Paulo J. S. Silva

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has gained significant attention across a broad spectrum of machine learning applications. Incorporating the over-relaxation technique shows potential for enhancing the convergence rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Jintao Song , Wenqi Lu , Yunwen Lei , Yuchao Tang , Zhenkuan Pan , Jinming Duan

The parallel alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithms have gained popularity in statistics and machine learning due to their efficient handling of large sample data problems. However, the parallel structure of these…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Xiaofei Wu , Jiancheng Jiang , Zhimin Zhang

This paper aims to study a majorized alternating direction method of multipliers with indefinite proximal terms (iPADMM) for convex composite optimization problems. We show that the majorized iPADMM for 2-block convex optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Ning Zhang , Jia Wu , Liwei Zhang

This paper proposes a partially inexact alternating direction method of multipliers for computing approximate solution of a linearly constrained convex optimization problem. This method allows its first subproblem to be solved inexactly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Vando A. Adona , Max L. N. Goncalves , Jefferson G. Melo

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

Matrix completion is fundamental for predicting missing data with a wide range of applications in personalized healthcare, e-commerce, recommendation systems, and social network analysis. Traditional matrix completion approaches typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Patrick Hytla , Tran T. A. Nghia , Duy Nhat Phan , Andrew Rice

This paper shows the capability the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has to track, in a distributed manner, the optimal down-link beam-forming solution in a multiple input multiple output (MISO) multi-cell network given a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Marie Maros , Joakim Jaldén

We consider a proximal operator given by a quadratic function subject to bound constraints and give an optimization algorithm using the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). The algorithm is particularly efficient to solve a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán

Distributed optimization aims to optimize a global objective formed by a sum of coupled local convex functions over a graph via only local computation and communication. In this paper, we propose the Bregman parallel direction method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Yue Yu , Behçet Açıkmeşe , Mehran Mesbahi

We propose a distributed algorithm, named Distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (D-ADMM), for solving separable optimization problems in networks of interconnected nodes or agents. In a separable optimization problem there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-26 João F. C. Mota , João M. F. Xavier , Pedro M. Q. Aguiar , Markus Püschel

We extend a primal-dual fixed point algorithm (PDFP) proposed in [5] to solve two kinds of separable multi-block minimization problems, arising in signal processing and imaging science. This work shows the flexibility of applying PDFP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Peijun Chen , Jianguo Huang , Xiaoqun Zhang