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Augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) has been popularly used for solving constrained optimization problems. Practically, subproblems for updating primal variables in the framework of ALM usually can only be solved inexactly. The convergence…
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Lagrangian-based methods are classical methods for solving convex optimization problems with equality constraints. We present novel prediction-correction frameworks for such methods and their variants, which can achieve $O(1/k)$ non-ergodic…
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We study the convergence rates of the classical Lagrangian-based methods and their variants for solving convex optimization problems with equality constraints. We present a generalized prediction-correction framework to establish $O(1/K^2)$…
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