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Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a popular convex optimization algorithm, which can be employed for solving distributed consensus optimization problems. In this setting agents locally estimate the optimal solution of an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-27 Layla Majzoobi , Farshad Lahouti , Vahid Shah-Mansouri

We consider a global variable consensus ADMM algorithm for solving large-scale PDE parameter estimation problems asynchronously and in parallel. To this end, we partition the data and distribute the resulting subproblems among the available…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Samy Wu Fung , Lars Ruthotto

In this paper, we propose a unified framework of inexact stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for solving nonconvex problems subject to linear constraints, whose objective comprises an average of finite-sum smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Yuxuan Zeng , Jianchao Bai , Shengjia Wang , Zhiguo Wang

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 paper derives analytical expressions for the asymptotic average updating direction of the adaptive moment generation (ADAM) algorithm when applied to recursive identification of nonlinear systems. It is proved that the standard…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Torbjörn Wigren , Ruoqi Zhang , Per Mattsson

In this paper, we consider nonconvex optimization problems with nonsmooth nonconvex objective function and nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that both the objective function and the functional constraints can be separated into 2…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Ion Necoara

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm has been widely adopted for solving the distributed optimization problem (DOP). In this paper, a new distributed parallel ADMM algorithm is proposed, which allows the agents to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Ziye Liu , Fanghong Guo , Wei Wang , Xiaoqun Wu

We consider the consensual distributed optimization problem and propose an asynchronous version of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm to solve it. The `asynchronous' part here refers to the fact that only one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Suhail M. Shah , Konstantin E. Avrachenkov

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

Pointwise and ergodic iteration-complexity results for the proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for any stepsize in(0,(1+\sqrt{5})/2) have been recently established in the literature. In addition to giving alternative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Max L. N. Goncalves , Jefferson G. Melo , Renato D. C. Monteiro

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

Alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) is a widely used algorithm for solving constrained optimization problems in image restoration. Among many useful features, one critical feature of the ADMM algorithm is its modular structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Stanley H. Chan , Xiran Wang , Omar A. Elgendy

We prove an explicit local linear rate for ADMM solving the isotropic Total Variation (TV) norm compressed sensing problem in multiple dimensions, by analyzing the auxiliary variable in the equivalent Douglas-Rachford splitting on a dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Emmanuel Gil Torres , Matt Jacobs , Xiangxiong Zhang

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

As an extension of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), the semi-proximal ADMM (sPADMM) has been widely used in various fields due to its flexibility and robustness. In this paper, we first show that the two-block sPADMM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Peng Liu , Liang Chen , Minru Bai

Method comparison studies are essential for development in medical and clinical fields. These studies often compare a cheaper, faster, or less invasive measuring method with a widely used one to see if they have sufficient agreement for…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-27 Wei Wang , Nan Lin , Jordan D. Oberhaus , Michael S. Avidan

In this paper we propose an iterative method using alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) strategy to solve linear inverse problems in Hilbert spaces with general convex penalty term. When the data is given exactly, we give a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Yuling Jiao , Qinian Jin , Xiliang Lu , Weijie Wang

Ambiguity in natural language is a significant obstacle for achieving accurate text to structured data mapping through large language models (LLMs), which affects the performance of tasks such as mapping text to agentic tool calling and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zhibo Hu , Chen Wang , Yanfeng Shu , Hye-Young Paik , Liming Zhu

We provide new connections between two distinct federated learning approaches based on (i) ADMM and (ii) Variational Bayes (VB), and propose new variants by combining their complementary strengths. Specifically, we show that the dual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Siddharth Swaroop , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Finale Doshi-Velez

This paper addresses the challenge of coordinating multi-robot systems under realistic communication delays using distributed optimization. We focus on consensus ADMM as a scalable framework for generating collision-free, dynamically…