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This paper proposes a novel approach to solving nonlinear programming problems using a sharp augmented Lagrangian method with a smoothing technique. Traditional sharp augmented Lagrangian methods are known for their effectiveness but are…
In this paper, a sequential adaptive regularization algorithm using cubics (ARC) is presented to solve nonlinear equality constrained optimization. It is motivated by the idea of handling constraints in sequential quadratic programming…
First-order methods have been popularly used for solving large-scale problems. However, many existing works only consider unconstrained problems or those with simple constraint. In this paper, we develop two first-order methods for…
Many problems in modern robotics can be addressed by modeling them as bilevel optimization problems. In this work, we leverage augmented Lagrangian methods and recent advances in automatic differentiation to develop a general-purpose…
This work presents PANTR, an efficient solver for nonconvex constrained optimization problems, that is well-suited as an inner solver for an augmented Lagrangian method. The proposed scheme combines forward-backward iterations with…
The augmented Lagrangian (AL) method that solves convex optimization problems with linear constraints has drawn more attention recently in imaging applications due to its decomposable structure for composite cost functions and empirical…
Modern machine learning, especially the training of deep neural networks, depends on solving large-scale, highly nonconvex optimization problems, whose objective function exhibit a rough landscape. Motivated by the success of parallel…
A novel trust region method for solving linearly constrained nonlinear programs is presented. The proposed technique is amenable to a distributed implementation, as its salient ingredient is an alternating projected gradient sweep in place…
We present a novel augmented Lagrangian (AL) preconditioner for the solution of linear systems arising from finite element discretizations of elliptic interface problems with jump coefficients. The method is based on the Fictitious Domain…
The linear model uses the space defined by the input to project the target or desired signal and find the optimal set of model parameters. When the problem is nonlinear, the adaption requires nonlinear models for good performance, but it…
In a recent work (arXiv-DOI: 1804.08072v1) we introduced the Modified Augmented Lagrangian Method (MALM) for the efficient minimization of objective functions with large quadratic penalty terms. From MALM there results an optimality…
Motivated by variational models in continuum mechanics, we introduce a novel algorithm to perform nonsmooth and nonconvex minimizations with linear constraints in Euclidean spaces. We show how this algorithm is actually a natural…
We present a numerical method for the local solution of nonlinear programming problems. The SUMT approach of Fiacco and McCormick results in a merit function with quadratic penalties and logarithmic barriers. Our NLP solver works by…
Symmetric cone programming covers a broad class of convex optimization problems, including linear programming, second-order cone programming, and semidefinite programming. Although the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) is well-suited for…
We propose two basic assumptions, under which the rate of convergence of the augmented Lagrange method for a class of composite optimization problems is estimated. We analyze the rate of local convergence of the augmented Lagrangian method…
Motivated by an inertial primal-dual dynamical system with vanishing damping, we propose a class of accelerated augmented Lagrangian methods with Nesterov extrapolation parameters for a linearly constrained convex optimization problem with…
In this paper, we revisit the augmented Lagrangian method for a class of nonsmooth convex optimization. We present the Lagrange optimality system of the augmented Lagrangian associated with the problems, and establish its connections with…
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…
This article investigates the convergence properties of a relative-type inexact preconditioned proximal augmented Lagrangian method (rip$^2$ALM) for convex nonlinear programming, a fundamental class of optimization problems with broad…
Backtracking line search is foundational in numerical optimization. The basic idea is to adjust the step-size of an algorithm by a constant factor until some chosen criterion (e.g. Armijo, Descent Lemma) is satisfied. We propose a novel way…