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In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ruggero Carli

This work proposes a novel convex-non-convex formulation of the image segmentation and the image completion problems. The proposed approach is based on the minimization of a functional involving two distinct regularization terms: one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Mohamed El Guide , Anas El Hachimi , Khalide Jbilou , Lothar Reichel

Non-convex constrained optimizations are ubiquitous in robotic applications such as multi-agent navigation, UAV trajectory optimization, and soft robot simulation. For this problem class, conventional optimizers suffer from small step sizes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Zherong Pan , Kui Wu

We consider a 3-block Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for solving nonconvex nonseparable problems with a linear constraint. Inspired by \cite[Sun, Toh and Yang, \textit{SIAM Journal on Optimization}, 25 (2015),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Zekun Liu

Thanks to its versatility, its simplicity, and its fast convergence, ADMM is among the most widely used approaches for solving a convex problem in distributed form. However, making it running efficiently is an art that requires a fine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Tomaso Erseghe

In this paper, we propose a novel trajectory optimization algorithm for mobile manipulators under end-effector path, collision avoidance and various kinematic constraints. Our key contribution lies in showing how this highly non-linear and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Arun Kumar Singh , Andrei Ahonen , Reza Ghabcheloo , Andreas Muller

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has gained significant attention across a broad spectrum of machine learning applications. Incorporating the over-relaxation technique shows potential for enhancing the convergence rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Jintao Song , Wenqi Lu , Yunwen Lei , Yuchao Tang , Zhenkuan Pan , Jinming Duan

This paper considers a class of structured fractional minimization problems. The numerator consists of a differentiable function, a simple nonconvex nonsmooth function, a concave nonsmooth function, and a convex nonsmooth function composed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ganzhao Yuan

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is commonly used for distributed model fitting problems, but its performance and reliability depend strongly on user-defined penalty parameters. We study distributed ADMM methods that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Zheng Xu , Gavin Taylor , Hao Li , Mario Figueiredo , Xiaoming Yuan , Tom Goldstein

In this paper, we develop a symmetric accelerated stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (SAS-ADMM) for solving separable convex optimization problems with linear constraints. The objective function is the sum of a possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Jianchao Bai , Deren Han , Hao Sun , Hongchao Zhang

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong , Wei-Cheng Liao , Xiangfeng Wang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Tianyun Zhang , Shaokai Ye , Yipeng Zhang , Yanzhi Wang , Makan Fardad

The nonconvex and nonsmooth finite-sum optimization problem with linear constraint has attracted much attention in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer, and mathematics, due to its wide applications in machine learning and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Yuxuan Zeng , Zhiguo Wang , Jianchao Bai , Xiaojing Shen

This paper proposes a partially inexact alternating direction method of multipliers for computing approximate solution of a linearly constrained convex optimization problem. This method allows its first subproblem to be solved inexactly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Vando A. Adona , Max L. N. Goncalves , Jefferson G. Melo

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful operator splitting technique for solving structured convex optimization problems. Due to its relatively low per-iteration computational cost and ability to exploit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Michel Schubiger , Goran Banjac , John Lygeros

We propose a new Bayesian approach to generalize the federated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). We show that the solutions of variational-Bayesian (VB) objectives are associated with a duality structure that not only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Thomas Möllenhoff , Siddharth Swaroop , Finale Doshi-Velez , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of cost functions pertaining to agents over a network whose topology is captured by a directed graph (i.e., asymmetric communication). We cast the problem into the ADMM setting, via a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Dingran Yi , Nikolaos M. Freris

Recently, many variance reduced stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) methods (e.g.\ SAG-ADMM, SDCA-ADMM and SVRG-ADMM) have made exciting progress such as linear convergence rates for strongly convex problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Yuanyuan Liu , Fanhua Shang , James Cheng

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Mingyan Liu

In this paper, we consider nonconvex decentralised optimisation and learning over a network of distributed agents. We develop an ADMM algorithm based on the Randomised Block Coordinate Douglas-Rachford splitting method which enables agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Behnam Mafakheri , Jonathan H. Manton , Iman Shames