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To solve the separable convex optimization problem with linear constraints, Eckstein and Bertsekas introduced the generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (in short, GADMM), which is an efficient and simple acceleration…
This paper introduces a novel approach to solving multi-block nonconvex composite optimization problems through a proximal linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). This method incorporates an Increasing Penalization…
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…
Various gradient compression schemes have been proposed to mitigate the communication cost in distributed training of large scale machine learning models. Sign-based methods, such as signSGD, have recently been gaining popularity because of…
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is widely used in solving structured convex optimization problems due to its superior practical performance. On the theoretical side however, a counterexample was shown in [7]…
We propose new methods to speed up convergence of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), a common optimization tool in the context of large scale and distributed learning. The proposed method accelerates the speed of…
This paper proposes a proximal variant of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for distributed optimization. Although the current versions of ADMM algorithm provide promising numerical results in producing solutions that…
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…
Numerous problems in machine learning are formulated as optimization with manifold constraints. In this paper, we propose the Manifold alternating directions method of multipliers (MADMM), an extension of the classical ADMM scheme for…
Transform Invariant Low-Rank Textures, referred to as TILT, can accurately and robustly extract textural or geometric information in a 3D from user-specified windows in 2D in spite of significant corruptions and warping. It was discovered…
A method for quasistatic cohesive fracture is introduced that uses an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to implement an energy approach to cohesive fracture. The ADMM algorithm minimizes a non-smooth, non-convex potential…
In this paper we propose an Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for solving a Model Predictive Control (MPC) optimization problem, in which the system has state and input constraints and a nonlinear input map. The…
This paper addresses the problem of efficiently classifying high-dimensional data over decentralized networks. Penalized support vector machines (SVMs) are widely used for high-dimensional classification tasks. However, the double…
Over the fast few years, the numerical success of the generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (GADMM) proposed by Eckstein \& Bertsekas [Math. Prog., 1992] has inspired intensive attention in analyzing its theoretical…
Variance reduction is a crucial tool for improving the slow convergence of stochastic gradient descent. Only a few variance-reduced methods, however, have yet been shown to directly benefit from Nesterov's acceleration techniques to match…
Stochastic gradient methods (SGMs) have been widely used for solving stochastic optimization problems. A majority of existing works assume no constraints or easy-to-project constraints. In this paper, we consider convex stochastic…
We present a systematic weight pruning framework of deep neural networks (DNNs) using the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). We first formulate the weight pruning problem of DNNs as a constrained nonconvex optimization…
Owing to the recent advances in "Big Data" modeling and prediction tasks, variational Bayesian estimation has gained popularity due to their ability to provide exact solutions to approximate posteriors. One key technique for approximate…
A gradient enhanced ADMM algorithm for optimal transport on general surfaces is proposed in this paper. Based on Benamou and Brenier's dynamical formulation, we combine gradient recovery techniques on surfaces with the ADMM algorithm, not…
Variance reduction (VR) techniques for convergence rate acceleration of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm have been developed with great efforts recently. VR's two variants, stochastic variance-reduced-gradient (SVRG-SGD) and…