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In modern large-scale machine learning applications, the training data are often partitioned and stored on multiple machines. It is customary to employ the "data parallelism" approach, where the aggregated training loss is minimized without…
Traditionally, neural networks are parameterized using optimization procedures such as stochastic gradient descent, RMSProp and ADAM. These procedures tend to drive the parameters of the network toward a local minimum. In this article, we…
We discuss an online decentralized decision making problem where the agents are coupled with affine inequality constraints. Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is used as the computation engine and we discuss the convergence…
The classic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a popular framework to solve linear-equality constrained problems. In this paper, we extend the ADMM naturally to nonlinear equality-constrained problems, called neADMM. The…
Accompanied with the rising popularity of compressed sensing, the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has become the most widely used solver for linearly constrained convex problems with separable objectives. In this work, we…
The present study proposes a sensor selection method based on the proximal splitting algorithm and the A-optimal design of experiment using the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm. The performance of the proposed…
To meet the ever growing demand for both high throughput and uniform coverage in future wireless networks, dense network deployment will be ubiquitous, for which co- operation among the access points is critical. Considering the…
We consider the least-squares approximation of a matrix C in the set of doubly stochastic matrices with the same sparsity pattern as C. Our approach is based on applying the well-known Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to a…
In the fields of statistics, machine learning, image science, and related areas, there is an increasing demand for decentralized collection or storage of large-scale datasets, as well as distributed solution methods. To tackle this…
In this paper, we carry out a unified study for $L_1$ over $L_2$ sparsity promoting models, which are widely used in the regime of coherent dictionaries for recovering sparse nonnegative/arbitrary signals. First, we provide a unified…
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…
The success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision applications has been accompanied by a significant increase of computation and memory costs, which prohibits its usage on resource-limited environments such as mobile or…
In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…
This paper presents optimal scaling of the alternating directions method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for a class of distributed quadratic programming problems. The scaling corresponds to the ADMM step-size and relaxation parameter, as…
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…
The objective of this paper is to design an efficient and convergent alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for finding a solution of medium accuracy to conic programming problems whose constraints consist of linear equalities,…
In this paper we develop an accelerated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for solving quadratic programs called superADMM. Unlike standard ADMM QP solvers, superADMM uses a novel dynamic weighting method that…
In this two-part work, we propose an algorithmic framework for solving non-convex problems whose objective function is the sum of a number of smooth component functions plus a convex (possibly non-smooth) or/and smooth (possibly non-convex)…
This dissertation explores block decomposable methods for large-scale optimization problems. It focuses on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) schemes and block coordinate descent (BCD) methods. Specifically, it introduces a…
Finding ways to transform a quantum state to another is fundamental to quantum information processing. In this paper, we apply the sparse matrix approach to the quantum state transformation problem. In particular, we present a new approach…