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We consider a class of Riemannian optimization problems where the objective is the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth function, considered in the ambient space. This class of problems finds important applications in machine learning…
This paper describes a regularized variant of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained convex programs. It is shown that the pointwise iteration-complexity of the new method is better than the…
We introduce a new algorithm to solve a regularized spatial-spectral image estimation problem. Our approach is based on the linearized alternating directions method of multipliers (LADMM), which is a variation of the popular ADMM algorithm.…
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a most widely used optimization scheme for solving linearly constrained separable convex optimization problems. The convergence of the ADMM can be guaranteed when the dual step…
We present in this paper first-order alternating linearization algorithms based on an alternating direction augmented Lagrangian approach for minimizing the sum of two convex functions. Our basic methods require at most $O(1/\epsilon)$…
The proximal generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (p-GADMM) is substantially efficient for solving convex composite programming problems of high-dimensional to moderate accuracy. The global convergence of this method was…
This paper considers the problem of distributed model fitting using the alternating directions method of multipliers (ADMM). ADMM splits the learning problem into several smaller subproblems, usually by partitioning the data samples. The…
In this paper, we introduce the G\"uler-type acceleration technique and utilize it to propose three acceleration algorithms: the G\"uler-type accelerated proximal gradient method (GPGM), the G\"uler-type accelerated linearized augmented…
We present a unified viewpoint of proximal point method (PPM), primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) and alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving convex-concave primal-dual problems. This viewpoint shows the equivalence…
Optimization approaches based on operator splitting are becoming popular for solving sparsity regularized statistical machine learning models. While many have proposed fast algorithms to solve these problems for a single regularization…
In sparse estimation, such as fused lasso and convex clustering, we apply either the proximal gradient method or the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to solve the problem. It takes time to include matrix division in the…
In modern data science problems, techniques for extracting value from big data require performing large-scale optimization over heterogenous, irregularly structured data. Much of this data is best represented as multi-relational graphs,…
We design inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian based decomposition methods for convex composite programming problems with dual block-angular structures. Our methods are particularly well suited for convex quadratic programming problems…
We introduce a generalization of the linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers to optimize a real-valued function $f$ of multiple arguments with potentially multiple constraints $g_\circ$ on each of them. The function $f$ may…
This paper establishes the iteration-complexity of a Jacobi-type non-Euclidean proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving multi-block linearly constrained nonconvex programs. The subproblems of this ADMM variant…
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…
The linearly constrained convex composite programming problems whose objective function contains two blocks with each block being the form of nonsmooth+smooth arises frequently in multiple fields of applications. If both of the smooth terms…
Many modern computer vision and machine learning applications rely on solving difficult optimization problems that involve non-differentiable objective functions and constraints. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a…
Proximal bundle methods (PBM) are a powerful class of algorithms for convex optimization. Compared to gradient descent, PBM constructs more accurate surrogate models that incorporate gradients and function values from multiple past…
In this work, we propose a preconditioned augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) for solving semidefinite programming (SDP) problems. The preconditioner is implemented via a weighted penalty function in the ALM subproblem, with the weight matrix…