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In this paper, we propose a generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with semi-proximal terms for solving a class of convex composite conic optimization problems, of which some are high-dimensional, to moderate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Yunhai Xiao , Liang Chen , Donghui Li

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is an effective method for solving wide fields of convex problems. At each iteration, the classical ADMM solves two subproblems exactly. However, in many applications, it is expensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Yan Gu , Nobuo Yamashita

In this paper, a stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is proposed for a class of nonsmooth composite and stochastic convex optimization problems in Hilbert space, motivated by optimization problems constrained by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Weihua Deng , Haiming Song , Hao Wang , Jinda Yang

Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a popular optimization tool for the composite and constrained problems in machine learning. However, in many machine learning problems such as black-box attacks and bandit feedback, ADMM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Feihu Huang , Shangqian Gao , Songcan Chen , Heng Huang

We study several versions of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving the convex problem of finding the distance between two ellipsoids and the nonconvex problem of finding the distance between the boundaries of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-06 M. V. Dolgopolik

In this paper, we propose an inertial alternating direction method of multipliers for solving a class of non-convex multi-block optimization problems with \emph{nonlinear coupling constraints}. Distinctive features of our proposed method,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Dimitri Papadimitriou

In the paper, we study the stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for the nonconvex optimizations, and propose three classes of the nonconvex stochastic ADMM with variance reduction, based on different reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-27 Feihu Huang , Songcan Chen , Zhaosong Lu

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is widely used in solving structured convex optimization problems. Despite of its success in practice, the convergence properties of the standard ADMM for minimizing the sum of $N$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a widely used method for structured convex optimization, and its practical performance depends strongly on the choice of penalty and relaxation parameters. Motivated by settings such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Junan Lin , Paul J. Goulart , Luca Furieri

Recently, semidefinite programming performance estimation has been employed as a strong tool for the worst-case performance analysis of first order methods. In this paper, we derive new non-ergodic convergence rates for the alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Moslem Zamani , Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Etienne de Klerk

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has now days gained tremendous attentions for solving large-scale machine learning and signal processing problems due to the relative simplicity. However, the two-block structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Mingxi Zhu , Kresimir Mihic , Yinyu Ye

We provide a new proof of the linear convergence of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) when one of the objective terms is strongly convex. Our proof is based on a framework for analyzing optimization algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Robert Nishihara , Laurent Lessard , Benjamin Recht , Andrew Packard , Michael I. Jordan

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Jiaxiang Li , Shiqian Ma , Tejes Srivastava

This work presents a new method for online selection of multiple penalty parameters for the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm applied to optimization problems with multiple constraints or functionals with block…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Luke Lozenski , Michael T. McCann , Brendt Wohlberg

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ganzhao Yuan

In this paper, we propose a new stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm, which incrementally approximates the full gradient in the linearized ADMM formulation. Besides having a low per-iteration complexity as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Leon Wenliang Zhong , James T. Kwok

In this work, we propose a (linearized) Alternating Direction Method-of-Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for minimizing a convex function subject to a nonconvex constraint. We focus on the special case where such constraint arises from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Fabian Latorre Gómez , Armin Eftekhari , Volkan Cevher

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Artiom Kovnatsky , Klaus Glashoff , Michael M. Bronstein

We address the problem of solving convex optimization problems with many convex constraints in a distributed setting. Our approach is based on an extension of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) that recently gained a lot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Joachim Giesen , Sören Laue