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In the last decades, unsupervised deep learning based methods have caught researchers attention, since in many real applications, such as medical imaging, collecting a great amount of training examples is not always feasible. Moreover, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Pasquale Cascarano , Andrea Sebastiani , Maria Colomba Comes , Giorgia Franchini , Federica Porta

We introduce a robust optimization method for flip-free distortion energies used, for example, in parametrization, deformation, and volume correspondence. This method can minimize a variety of distortion energies, such as the symmetric…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Oded Stein , Jiajin Li , Justin Solomon

Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful first order methods for various applications in signal processing and imaging. However, there is no clear result on the weak convergence of ADMM with relaxation studied by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Hongpeng Sun

This paper proposes a proximal variant of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for distributed optimization. Although the current versions of ADMM algorithm provide promising numerical results in producing solutions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Reza Mirzaeifard , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Alexander Jung , Stefan Werner

In this paper, we propose and analyze an inexact version of the symmetric proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained optimization problems. Basically, the method allows its first subproblem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Vando A. Adona , Max L. N. Gonçalves

In this paper, the elliptic PDE-constrained optimization problem with box constraints on the control is studied. To numerically solve the problem, we apply the 'optimize-discretize-optimize' strategy. Specifically, the alternating direction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Xiaotong Chen , Xiaoliang Song , Zixuan Chen , Bo Yu

From a dual perspective of the sparse representation model, Nam et al. proposed the cosparse analysis model. In this paper, we aim to investigate the convergence of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for the cosparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Zisheng Liu , Ting Zhang

We investigate a class of general combinatorial graph problems, including MAX-CUT and community detection, reformulated as quadratic objectives over nonconvex constraints and solved via the alternating direction method of multipliers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Chuangchuang Sun , Yifan Sun , Ran Dai

In this paper, we consider minimizing the L1/L2 term on the gradient for a limited-angle scanning problem in computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. We design a specific splitting framework for an unconstrained optimization model so that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Chao Wang , Min Tao , James Nagy , Yifei Lou

We study the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth convex regularizer over a compact Riemannian submanifold embedded in Euclidean space. By introducing an auxiliary splitting variable, we propose an adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Kangkang Deng , Jiachen Jin , Jiang Hu , Hongxia Wang

Optimization has been widely used to generate smooth trajectories for motion planning. However, existing trajectory optimization methods show weakness when dealing with large-scale long trajectories. Recent advances in parallel computing…

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In this paper, we devise a sparse array design algorithm for adaptive beamforming. Our strategy is based on finding a sparse beamformer weight to maximize the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). The proposed method…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Huiping Huang , Hing Cheung So , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

This paper develops an adaptive proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained, composite optimization problems under the assumption that the smooth component of the objective is weakly convex,…

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We present an adaptive regularization scheme for optimizing composite energy functionals arising in image analysis problems. The scheme automatically trades off data fidelity and regularization depending on the current data fit during the…

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We propose an efficient first-order method, based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), to solve the homogeneous self-dual embedding problem for a primal-dual pair of semidefinite programs (SDPs) with chordal sparsity.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Paul Goulart , Andrew Wynn

We consider a class of structured, nonconvex, nonsmooth optimization problems under orthogonality constraints, where the objectives combine a smooth function, a nonsmooth concave function, and a nonsmooth weakly convex function. This class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Ganzhao Yuan

We propose an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to solve an optimization problem stemming from inverse lithography. The objective functional of the optimization problem includes three terms: the misfit between the imaging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Junqing Chen , Haibo Liu

The elliptical shape prior information plays a vital role in improving the accuracy of image segmentation for specific tasks in medical and natural images. Existing deep learning-based segmentation methods, including the Segment Anything…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Xinyu Zhao , Jun Liu , Faqiang Wang , Li Cui , Yuping Duan

The storage and computation requirements of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can be prohibitive for exploiting these models over low-power or embedded devices. This paper reduces the computational complexity of the CNNs by minimizing an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Farkhondeh Kiaee , Christian Gagné , Mahdieh Abbasi

This paper proposes a provably convergent multiblock ADMM for nonconvex optimization with nonlinear dynamics constraints, overcoming the divergence issue in classical extensions. We consider a class of optimization problems that arise from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Bowen Li , Ya-xiang Yuan