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This work investigates the convergence behavior of augmented Lagrangian methods (ALMs) when applied to convex optimization problems that may be infeasible. ALMs are a popular class of algorithms for solving constrained optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Roland Andrews , Justin Carpentier , Adrien Taylor

The augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) is a classical optimization tool that solves a given "difficult" (constrained) problem via finding solutions of a sequence of "easier"(often unconstrained) sub-problems with respect to the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Dusan Jakovetic , Dragana Bajovic , Joao Xavier , Jose M. F. Moura

In this paper, we suggest a new framework for analyzing primal subgradient methods for nonsmooth convex optimization problems. We show that the classical step-size rules, based on normalization of subgradient, or on the knowledge of optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Yurii Nesterov

We propose a new bundle-based augmented Lagrangian framework for solving constrained convex problems. Unlike the classical (inexact) augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) that has a nested double-loop structure, our framework features a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Feng-Yi Liao , Yang Zheng

The augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) is one of the most useful methods for constrained optimization. Its convergence has been well established under convexity assumptions or smoothness assumptions, or under both assumptions. ALM may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Jinshan Zeng , Wotao Yin , Ding-Xuan Zhou

In this work, we develop a control-theoretic framework for constrained optimization problems with composite objective functions including non-differentiable terms. Building on the proximal augmented Lagrangian formulation, we construct a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 V. Cerone , S. M. Fosson , S. Pirrera , A. Re , D. Regruto

Large-scale constrained optimization is pivotal in modern scientific, engineering, and industrial computation, often involving complex systems with numerous variables and constraints. This paper provides a unified and comprehensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Kangkang Deng , Rui Wang , Zhenyuan Zhu , Junyu Zhang , Zaiwen Wen

Decentralized optimization is a powerful paradigm that finds applications in engineering and learning design. This work studies decentralized composite optimization problems with non-smooth regularization terms. Most existing gradient-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

First-order methods have been popularly used for solving large-scale problems. However, many existing works only consider unconstrained problems or those with simple constraint. In this paper, we develop two first-order methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Yangyang Xu

We consider structured optimisation problems defined in terms of the sum of a smooth and convex function, and a proper, l.s.c., convex (typically non-smooth) one in reflexive variable exponent Lebesgue spaces $L_{p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$. Due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Marta Lazzaretti , Luca Calatroni , Claudio Estatico

Dual decomposition is a powerful technique for deriving decomposition schemes for convex optimization problems with separable structure. Although the Augmented Lagrangian is computationally more stable than the ordinary Lagrangian, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Ion Necoara , Johan A. K. Suykens

We consider a class of distributed optimization problem where the objective function consists of a sum of strongly convex and smooth functions and a (possibly nonsmooth) convex regularizer. A multi-agent network is assumed, where each agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Yichuan Li , Yonghai Gong , Nikolaos M. Freris , Petros Voulgaris , Dusan Stipanovic

Nonlinearly constrained nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization models play an increasingly important role in machine learning, statistics and data analytics. In this paper, based on the augmented Lagrangian function we introduce a flexible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Daoli Zhu , Lei Zhao , Shuzhong Zhang

We tackle highly nonconvex, nonsmooth composite optimization problems whose objectives comprise a Moreau-Yosida regularized term. Classical nonconvex proximal splitting algorithms, such as nonconvex ADMM, suffer from lack of convergence for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Emanuel Laude , Tao Wu , Daniel Cremers

This paper addresses a class of nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problems defined on complete Riemannian manifolds. The objective function has a composite structure, combining convex, differentiable, and lower semicontinuous terms,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Vitaliano S. Amaral , Marcio Antônio de A. Bortoloti , Jurandir O. Lopes , Gilson N. Silva

We present a new algorithm for solving optimization problems with objective functions that are the sum of a smooth function and a (potentially) nonsmooth regularization function, and nonlinear equality constraints. The algorithm may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Yutong Dai , Xiaoyi Qu , Daniel P. Robinson

Stochastic gradient method (SGM) has been popularly applied to solve optimization problems with objective that is stochastic or an average of many functions. Most existing works on SGMs assume that the underlying problem is unconstrained or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Yangyang Xu

This paper considers decentralized consensus optimization problems where different summands of a global objective function are available at nodes of a network that can communicate with neighbors only. The proximal method of multipliers is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Aryan Mokhtari , Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper proposes a novel first-order algorithm that solves composite nonsmooth and stochastic convex optimization problem with function constraints. Most of the works in the literature provide convergence rate guarantees on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Digvijay Boob , Mohammad Khalafi

This work aims to minimize a continuously differentiable convex function with Lipschitz continuous gradient under linear equality constraints. The proposed inertial algorithm results from the discretization of the second-order primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Dang-Khoa Nguyen