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In this paper, we analyze the convergence rate of the Jacobi-Proximal Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) initially introduced by Deng et al. for the block-structured optimization problem with linear constraint. The algorithm…

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This paper is concerned with convex composite minimization problems in a Hilbert space. In these problems, the objective is the sum of two closed, proper, and convex functions where one is smooth and the other admits a computationally…

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This paper proposes QPALM, a proximal augmented Lagrangian method based on quadratic approximations, for solving nonlinear programming problems with weakly convex objective and constraint functions. The algorithm is constructed by…

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We consider saddle point problems which objective functions are the average of $n$ strongly convex-concave individual components. Recently, researchers exploit variance reduction methods to solve such problems and achieve linear-convergence…

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Monotonicity of pairs of operators is an extension of monotonicity of operators, which plays an important role in solving non-monotone inclusions. One of challenging problems in this new tool is how to design the associated mappings to…

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The Augmented Lagragian Method (ALM) and Alternating Direction Method of Multiplier (ADMM) have been powerful optimization methods for general convex programming subject to linear constraint. We consider the convex problem whose objective…

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We study the problem of minimizing a $m$-weakly convex and possibly nonsmooth function. Weak convexity provides a broad framework that subsumes convex, smooth, and many composite nonconvex functions. In this work, we propose a…

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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Shixiang Chen , Zengde Deng , Shiqian Ma , Anthony Man-Cho So

Point-SAGA is a randomized algorithm for minimizing a sum of convex functions using their proximity operators (proxs), proposed by Defazio (2016). At every iteration, the prox of only one randomly chosen function is called. We generalize…

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