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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…
This paper aims to present a fairly accessible generalization of several symmetric Gauss-Seidel decomposition based multi-block proximal alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMMs) for convex composite optimization problems. The…
We propose a general algorithmic framework for constrained matrix and tensor factorization, which is widely used in signal processing and machine learning. The new framework is a hybrid between alternating optimization (AO) and the…
This article reports an algorithm for multi-agent distributed optimization problems with a common decision variable, local linear equality and inequality constraints and set constraints with convergence rate guarantees.…
In this paper we present a shape optimization scheme which utilizes the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to approximate a direction of steepest descent in $W^{1,\infty}$. The followed strategy is a combination of the…
We propose a distributed algorithm based on Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to minimize the sum of locally known convex functions using communication over a network. This optimization problem emerges in many applications…
In this paper, we study a general optimization model, which covers a large class of existing models for many applications in imaging sciences. To solve the resulting possibly nonconvex, nonsmooth and non-Lipschitz optimization problem, we…
In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed optimisation of a separable convex cost function over a graph, where every edge and node in the graph could carry both linear equality and/or inequality constraints. We show how to…
This work proposes a novel shape optimization framework for geometric inverse problems governed by the advection--diffusion equation, based on the coupled complex boundary method (CCBM). Building on recent developments [Afr22, Rab23, Rab25,…
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…
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…
Sparse signal recovery based on nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems has significant applications and demonstrates superior performance in signal processing and machine learning. This work deals with a scale-invariant…
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a popular method for solving convex separable minimization problems with linear equality constraints. The generalization of the two-block ADMM to the three-block ADMM is not trivial…
Parallel trajectory optimization via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has emerged as a scalable approach to long-horizon motion planning. However, existing frameworks typically decompose the problem into parallel…
This work studies the linear convergence of an accelerated scheme of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for strongly convex and Lipschitz-smooth problems. We use the methodology of expressing the accelerated ADMM as a…
We are presenting a modification of the well-known Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm with additional preconditioning that aims at solving convex optimisation problems with nonlinear operator constraints.…
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…
This work develops a control-centric framework for a custom 4-DOF rigid-body manipulator by coupling a reduced-order Pontryagin's Maximum Principle (PMP) controller with a physics-informed Gradient Descent stage. The reduced PMP model…
In this paper we propose a fast optimization algorithm for approximately minimizing convex quadratic functions over the intersection of affine and separable constraints (i.e., the Cartesian product of possibly nonconvex real sets). This…
We develop two new variants of alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMM) and two parallel primal-dual decomposition algorithms to solve a wide range class of constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach relies on a novel…