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In this work, we propose a preconditioned augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) for solving semidefinite programming (SDP) problems. The preconditioner is implemented via a weighted penalty function in the ALM subproblem, with the weight matrix…
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The augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) has gained tremendous popularity for its elegant theory and impressive numerical performance since it was proposed by Hestenes and Powell in 1969. It has been widely used in numerous efficient solvers…
In this paper, we consider a nonconvex optimization problem with nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that both, the objective function and the functional constraints are locally smooth. For solving this problem, we propose a…
We consider solving nonlinear optimization problems with a stochastic objective and deterministic equality constraints. We assume for the objective that its evaluation, gradient, and Hessian are inaccessible, while one can compute their…
In this paper, we propose a unified primal-dual algorithm framework based on the augmented Lagrangian function for composite convex problems with conic inequality constraints. The new framework is highly versatile. First, it not only covers…
We investigate exact semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for the problem of minimizing a nonconvex quadratic objective function over a feasible region defined by both finitely and infinitely many nonconvex quadratic inequality…
We consider the general nonlinear optimization problem where the objective function has an additional term defined by the $ \ell_0 $-quasi-norm in order to promote sparsity of a solution. This problem is highly difficult due to its…
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The "exact subgraph" approach was recently introduced as a hierarchical scheme to get increasingly tight semidefinite programming relaxations of several NP-hard graph optimization problems. Solving these relaxations is a computational…
In this work we reformulate the method presented in App. Opt. 53:2297 (2014) as a constrained minimization problem using the augmented Lagrangian method. First we introduce the new method and then describe the numerical solution, which…
This paper is concerned with a novel deep learning method for variational problems with essential boundary conditions. To this end, we first reformulate the original problem into a minimax problem corresponding to a feasible augmented…
In the past years, augmented Lagrangian methods have been successfully applied to several classes of non-convex optimization problems, inspiring new developments in both theory and practice. In this paper we bring most of these recent…
This work presents an adaptive superfast proximal augmented Lagrangian (AS-PAL) method for solving linearly-constrained smooth nonconvex composite optimization problems. Each iteration of AS-PAL inexactly solves a possibly nonconvex…
This paper proposes and analyzes an accelerated inexact dampened augmented Lagrangian (AIDAL) method for solving linearly-constrained nonconvex composite optimization problems. Each iteration of the AIDAL method consists of: (i) inexactly…