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This paper proposes a novel numerical method for solving the problem of decision making under cumulative prospect theory (CPT), where the goal is to maximize utility subject to practical constraints, assuming only finite realizations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Xiangyu Cui , Rujun Jiang , Yun Shi , Rufeng Xiao , Yifan Yan

We study a class of structured convex optimization problems, which have a two-block separable objective and nonlinear functional constraints as well as affine constraints that couple the two block variables. Such problems naturally arise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Zhengjie Xiong , Yangyang Xu

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has gained increasing popularity in embedded model predictive control (MPC) due to its code simplicity and pain-free parameter selection. However, existing ADMM solvers either target…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Liang Wu , Bo Yang , Junheng Li , Xu Yang , Yilin Mo , Yang Shi , Aaron D. Ames , Ján Drgoňa

A compositional performance certification method is presented for interconnected systems using subsystem dissipativity properties and the interconnection structure. A large-scale optimization problem is formulated to search for the most…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Chris Meissen , Laurent Lessard , Murat Arcak , Andrew Packard

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a widely used method for structured convex optimization, and its practical performance depends strongly on the choice of penalty and relaxation parameters. Motivated by settings such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Junan Lin , Paul J. Goulart , Luca Furieri

This work investigates the theoretical performance of the alternating-direction method of multipliers (ADMM) as it applies to nonconvex optimization problems, and in particular, problems with nonconvex constraint sets. The alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Stuart M. Harwood

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful algorithm for solving decentralized optimization problems including networked microgrid energy management (NetMEM). However, its performance is highly sensitive to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Jesus Silva-Rodriguez , Xingpeng Li

This paper presents a novel approach for distributed model predictive control (MPC) for piecewise affine (PWA) systems. Existing approaches rely on solving mixed-integer optimization problems, requiring significant computation power or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Samuel Mallick , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

In this paper we present a convex formulation of the Model Predictive Control (MPC) optimisation for energy management in hybrid electric vehicles, and an Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for its solution. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-24 Sebastian East , Mark Cannon

Alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) is a popular method used to design distributed versions of a machine learning algorithm, whereby local computations are performed on local data with the output exchanged among neighbors in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Mingyan Liu

As problems in machine learning, smartgrid dispatch, and IoT coordination problems have grown, distributed and fully-decentralized optimization models have gained attention for providing computational scalability to optimization tools.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Eric Munsing , Scott Moura

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

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has emerged as a powerful technique for large-scale structured optimization. Despite many recent results on the convergence properties of ADMM, a quantitative characterization of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Euhanna Ghadimi , André Teixeira , Iman Shames , Mikael Johansson

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a flexible method to solve a large class of convex minimization problems. Particular features are its unconditional convergence with respect to the involved step size and its direct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-21 Sören Bartels , Marijo Milicevic

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has now days gained tremendous attentions for solving large-scale machine learning and signal processing problems due to the relative simplicity. However, the two-block structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Mingxi Zhu , Kresimir Mihic , Yinyu Ye

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

We propose a distributed design method for decentralized control by exploiting the underlying sparsity properties of the problem. Our method is based on chordal decomposition of sparse block matrices and the alternating direction method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Yang Zheng , Maryam Kamgarpour , Aivar Sootla , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Inexact alternating direction multiplier methods (ADMMs) are developed for solving general separable convex optimization problems with a linear constraint and with an objective that is the sum of smooth and nonsmooth terms. The approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-12 William W. Hager , Hongchao Zhang

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

Nonconvex and structured optimization problems arise in many engineering applications that demand scalable and distributed solution methods. The study of the convergence properties of these methods is in general difficult due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-04 Sindri Magnússon , Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana , Michael G. Rabbat , Carlo Fischione