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Alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMMs) are popular approaches to handle large scale semidefinite programs that gained attention during the past decade. In this paper, we focus on solving doubly nonnegative programs (DNN),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Martina Cerulli , Marianna De Santis , Elisabeth Gaar , Angelika Wiegele

This paper presents a numerical solver for computing continuous trajectories in non-convex environments. Our approach relies on a customized implementation of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) built upon two key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Lukas Pries , Jon Arrizabalaga , Zachary Manchester , Markus Ryll

This paper proposes novel algorithm for non-convex multimodal constrained optimisation problems. It is based on sequential solving restrictions of problem to sections of feasible set by random subspaces (in general, manifolds) of low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Dmitry A. Pasechnyuk , Alexander Gornov

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been studied for years. The traditional ADMM algorithm needs to compute, at each iteration, an (empirical) expected loss function on all training examples, resulting in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-10 Peilin Zhao , Jinwei Yang , Tong Zhang , Ping Li

In this paper, we consider solving a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth problems frequently appearing in signal processing and machine learning research. The traditional alternating direction method of multipliers encounters troubles in both…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Tao Sun , Hao Jiang , Lizhi Cheng , Wei Zhu

This paper considers an optimization problem that components of the objective function are available at different nodes of a network and nodes are allowed to only exchange information with their neighbors. The decentralized alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Aryan Mokhtari , Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this paper we consider from two different aspects the proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) in Hilbert spaces. We first consider the application of the proximal ADMM to solve well-posed linearly constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Qinian Jin

The storage and computation requirements of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can be prohibitive for exploiting these models over low-power or embedded devices. This paper reduces the computational complexity of the CNNs by minimizing an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Farkhondeh Kiaee , Christian Gagné , Mahdieh Abbasi

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 dual Riemannian alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving low-rank semidefinite programs with unit diagonal constraints. We recast the ADMM subproblem as a Riemannian optimization problem over the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Jie Wang , Liangbing Hu , Bican Xia

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

We introduce Newton-ADMM, a method for fast conic optimization. The basic idea is to view the residuals of consecutive iterates generated by the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) as a set of fixed point equations, and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Alnur Ali , Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

We expand the scope of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Specifically, we show that ADMM, when employed to solve problems with multiaffine constraints that satisfy certain verifiable assumptions, converges to the set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Wenbo Gao , Donald Goldfarb , Frank E. Curtis

We analyze the performance of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to track, in a decentralized manner, a solution of a stochastic sequence of optimization problems parametrized by a discrete time Markov process. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Marie Maros , Joakim Jalén

In this paper, we develop a symmetric accelerated stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (SAS-ADMM) for solving separable convex optimization problems with linear constraints. The objective function is the sum of a possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Jianchao Bai , Deren Han , Hao Sun , Hongchao Zhang

The parallel alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is widely recognized for its effectiveness in handling large-scale datasets stored in a distributed manner, making it a popular choice for solving statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-22 Xiaofei Wu , Zhimin Zhang , Zhenyu Cui

We propose two new alternating direction methods to solve "fully" nonsmooth constrained convex problems. Our algorithms have the best known worst-case iteration-complexity guarantee under mild assumptions for both the objective residual and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Volkan Cevher

Convex quadratic programs (QPs) constitute a fundamental computational primitive across diverse domains including financial optimization, control systems, and machine learning. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Xi Gao , Jinxin Xiong , Linxin Yang , Akang Wang , Weiwei Xu , Jiang Xue

The 0/1 D-optimality problem and the Maximum-Entropy Sampling problem are two well-known NP-hard discrete maximization problems in experimental design. Algorithms for exact optimization (of moderate-sized instances) are based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Gabriel Ponte , Marcia Fampa , Jon Lee , Luze Xu

In the present paper we propose a novel convergence analysis of the Alternating Direction Methods of Multipliers (ADMM), based on its equivalence with the overrelaxed Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (oPDHG) algorithm. We consider the smooth…

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