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In this paper we propose an Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for solving a Model Predictive Control (MPC) optimization problem, in which the system has state and input constraints and a nonlinear input map. The…

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This paper addresses a class of constrained optimization problems over networks in which local cost functions and constraints can be nonconvex. We propose an asynchronous distributed optimization algorithm, relying on the centralized Method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Francesco Farina , Andrea Garulli , Antonio Giannitrapani , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper studies a proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with variable metric indefinite proximal terms for linearly constrained convex optimization problems. The proximal ADMM plays an important role in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Yan Gu , Nobuo Yamashita

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful splitting algorithm for linearly constrained convex optimization problems. In view of its popularity and applicability, a growing attention is drawn towards the ADMM in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Sedi Bartz , Rubén Campoy , Hung M. Phan

In this paper, a stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is proposed for a class of nonsmooth composite and stochastic convex optimization problems in Hilbert space, motivated by optimization problems constrained by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Weihua Deng , Haiming Song , Hao Wang , Jinda Yang

We consider a class of multi-agent cooperative consensus optimization problems with local nonlinear convex constraints where only those agents connected by an edge can directly communicate, hence, the optimal consensus decision lies in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Nazanin Abolfazli , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed optimisation of a separable convex cost function over a graph, where every edge and node in the graph could carry both linear equality and/or inequality constraints. We show how to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Richard Heusdens , Guoqiang Zhang

In this work we address the problem of distributed optimization of the sum of convex cost functions in the context of multi-agent systems over lossy communication networks. Building upon operator theory, first, we derive an ADMM-like…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Marco Todescato , Ruggero Carli , Luca Schenato

We present a stochastic setting for optimization problems with nonsmooth convex separable objective functions over linear equality constraints. To solve such problems, we propose a stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Hua Ouyang , Niao He , Alexander Gray

We propose a decentralized penalty method for general convex constrained multi-agent optimization problems. Each auxiliary penalized problem is solved approximately with a special parallel descent splitting method. The method can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Igor Konnov

Linearized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) as an extension of ADMM has been widely used to solve linearly constrained problems in signal processing, machine leaning, communications, and many other fields. Despite its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Qinghua Liu , Xinyue Shen , Yuantao Gu

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 presents a majorized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with indefinite proximal terms for solving linearly constrained $2$-block convex composite optimization problems with each block in the objective being the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Min Li , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

This paper proposes and analyzes a dampened proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (DP.ADMM) for solving linearly-constrained nonconvex optimization problems where the smooth part of the objective function is nonseparable.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Weiwei Kong , Renato D. C. Monteiro

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been recognized as a versatile approach for solving modern large-scale machine learning and signal processing problems efficiently. When the data size and/or the problem dimension…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tsung-Hui Chang , Wei-Cheng Liao , Mingyi Hong , Xiangfeng Wang

Optimal transport on a graph focuses on finding the most efficient way to transfer resources from one distribution to another while considering the graph's structure. This paper introduces a new distributed algorithm that solves the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yacine Mokhtari , Emmanuel Moulay , Patrick Coirault , Jérôme Le Ny

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

This paper addresses the problem of nonconvex nonsmooth decentralised optimisation in multi-agent networks with undirected connected communication graphs. Our contribution lies in introducing an algorithmic framework designed for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Behnam Mafakheri , Jonathan H. Manton , Iman Shames

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm with synergetic communication and computation, called SCCD-ADMM, to reduce the total communication and computation cost of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Zhuojun Tian , Zhaoyang Zhang , Jue Wang , Xiaoming Chen , Wei Wang , Huaiyu Dai

Consider a set of N agents seeking to solve distributively the minimization problem $\inf_{x} \sum_{n = 1}^N f_n(x)$ where the convex functions $f_n$ are local to the agents. The popular Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers has the…

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