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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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Boran Wang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Changkyu Song , Sejong Yoon , Vladimir Pavlovic

Empirical results show that Anderson acceleration (AA) can be a powerful mechanism to improve the asymptotic linear convergence speed of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) when ADMM by itself converges linearly. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Dawei Wang , Yunhui He , Hans De Sterck

This paper provides the first proof that Anderson acceleration (AA) improves the convergence rate of general fixed point iterations. AA has been used for decades to speed up nonlinear solvers in many applications, however a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Claire Evans , Sara Pollock , Leo G. Rebholz , Mengying Xiao

In the present paper we propose a novel convergence analysis of the Alternating Direction Methods of Multipliers (ADMM), based on its equivalence with the overrelaxed Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (oPDHG) algorithm. We consider the smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Pauline Tan

The alternating minimization (AM) method is a fundamental method for minimizing convex functions whose variable consists of two blocks. How to efficiently solve each subproblems when applying the AM method is the most concerned task. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Hui Zhang , Lizhi Cheng

In this short note, we provide a simple version of an accelerated forward-backward method (a.k.a. Nesterov's accelerated proximal gradient method) possibly relying on approximate proximal operators and allowing to exploit strong convexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Mathieu Barré , Adrien Taylor , Francis Bach

Comparing time series is essential in various tasks such as clustering and classification. While elastic distance measures that allow warping provide a robust quantitative comparison, a qualitative comparison on top of them is missing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Simiao Lin , Wannes Meert , Pieter Robberechts , Hendrik Blockeel

We consider transformations between uniformly accelerated systems, assuming that the Clock Hypothesis is false. We use the proper velocity-time description of events rather than the usual space-time description in order to obtain linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Yaakov Friedman , Yuriy Gofman

In this work, we extend a modified Anderson acceleration proposed in [Y. He, arXiv:2603.25983, 2026] to accelerate the Picard iteration for the Navier-Stokes equations. In this variant of Anderson acceleration, named AAg, the nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yunhui He , Leo Rebholz

In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive analysis on the linear rate convergence of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained convex composite optimization problems. Under a certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Deren Han , Defeng Sun , Liwei Zhang

Anderson Acceleration is a well-established method that allows to speed up or encourage convergence of fixed-point iterations. It has been successfully used in a variety of applications, in particular within the Self-Consistent Field (SCF)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Ning Wan , Agnieszka Międlar

In a recent paper (Appl. Math. Comput. 215, 1622--1645, 2009), the authors proposed a method of summation of some slowly convergent series. The purpose of this note is to give more theoretical analysis for this transformation, including the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Rafał Nowak , Paweł Woźny

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…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Chao Zhang , Zebang Shen , Hui Qian , Tengfei Zhou , Jianya Zhou , Jianying Zhou

In this paper, we accomplish a unified convergence analysis of a second-order method of multipliers (i.e., a second-order augmented Lagrangian method) for solving the conventional nonlinear conic optimization problems.Specifically, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Liang Chen , Junyuan Zhu , Xinyuan Zhao

The {\it forward-backward algorithm} is a powerful tool for solving optimization problems with a {\it additively separable} and {\it smooth} + {\it nonsmooth} structure. In the convex setting, a simple but ingenious acceleration scheme…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Hedy Attouch , Juan Peypouquet

In recent years, accelerated extra-gradient methods have attracted much attention by researchers, for solving monotone inclusion problems. A limitation of most current accelerated extra-gradient methods lies in their direct utilization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Ya-xiang Yuan , Yi Zhang

Abstraction (in its various forms) is a powerful established technique in model-checking; still, when unbounded data-structures are concerned, it cannot always cope with divergence phenomena in a satisfactory way. Acceleration is an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-04 Francesco Alberti , Silvio Ghilardi , Natasha Sharygina

The generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) of Xiao et al. [{\tt Math. Prog. Comput., 2018}] aims at the two-block linearly constrained composite convex programming problem, in which each block is in the form of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Hongwu Li , Haibin Zhang , Yunhai Xiao

In this paper we develop convergence and acceleration theory for Anderson acceleration applied to Newton's method for nonlinear systems in which the Jacobian is singular at a solution. For these problems, the standard Newton algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Matt Dallas , Sara Pollock