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Parabolic optimal control problems with control constraints are generally challenging, from either theoretical analysis or algorithmic design perspectives. Conceptually, the well-known alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) can…
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In this paper, we present a semi-proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving $3$-block separable convex minimization problems with the second block in the objective being a strongly convex function and one…
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…
In this paper, we analyze the convergence of Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) on convex quadratic programs (QPs) with linear equality and bound constraints. The ADMM formulation alternates between an equality constrained…
As a well-known optimization framework, the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has achieved tremendous success in many classification and regression applications. Recently, it has attracted the attention of deep learning…
In this paper, we consider solving a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth problems frequently appearing in signal processing and machine learning research. The traditional alternating direction method of multipliers encounters troubles in both…
Aiming at solving large-scale learning problems, this paper studies distributed optimization methods based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). By formulating the learning problem as a consensus problem, the ADMM can…
Alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) is a powerful method to solve decentralized convex optimization problems. In distributed settings, each node performs computation with its local data and the local results are exchanged…
Alternating Direction Method of Multiplier (ADMM) has been a popular algorithmic framework for separable optimization problems with linear constraints. For numerical ADMM fail to exploit the particular structure of the problem at hand nor…
Alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) is a powerful method to solve decentralized convex optimization problems. In distributed settings, each node performs computation with its local data and the local results are exchanged…
In recent years, although the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been empirically applied widely to many multi-convex applications, delivering an impressive performance in areas such as nonnegative matrix factorization…
In this paper, we design constant modulus probing waveforms with good correlation properties for collocated multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar systems. The main content is as follows: first, we formulate the design problem as a fourth…
Alternating direction multiplication is a powerful technique for solving convex optimisation problems. When challenging subproblems are encountered in the real world, it is useful to solve them by introducing neighbourhood terms. When the…
Non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems have numerous applications in signal processing, machine learning, and wireless communications, albeit the general QCQP is NP-hard, and several interesting special…
Support vector machines (SVMs) with sparsity-inducing nonconvex penalties have received considerable attentions for the characteristics of automatic classification and variable selection. However, it is quite challenging to solve the…
This paper introduces a parallel and distributed extension to the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving convex problem: minimize $\sum_{i=1}^N f_i(x_i)$ subject to $\sum_{i=1}^N A_i x_i=c, x_i\in \mathcal{X}_i$. The…
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a popular method for solving large-scale Machine Learning problems. Stochastic ADMM was proposed to reduce the per iteration computational complexity, which is more suitable for big data…
We give a general proof of convergence for the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). ADMM is an optimization algorithm that has recently become very popular due to its capabilities to solve large-scale and/or distributed…