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This paper proposes a dual Riemannian alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving low-rank semidefinite programs with unit diagonal constraints. We recast the ADMM subproblem as a Riemannian optimization problem over the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Jie Wang , Liangbing Hu , Bican Xia

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

An outlier-resistance phase retrieval algorithm based on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is devised in this letter. Instead of the widely used least squares criterion that is only optimal for Gaussian noise environment,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Xue Jiang , H. C. So , X. Liu

We analyze the performance of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to track, in a decentralized manner, a solution of a stochastic sequence of optimization problems parametrized by a discrete time Markov process. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Marie Maros , Joakim Jalén

We provide a new proof of the linear convergence of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) when one of the objective terms is strongly convex. Our proof is based on a framework for analyzing optimization algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Robert Nishihara , Laurent Lessard , Benjamin Recht , Andrew Packard , Michael I. Jordan

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a most widely used optimization scheme for solving linearly constrained separable convex optimization problems. The convergence of the ADMM can be guaranteed when the dual step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

Many problems in machine learning and other fields can be (re)for-mulated as linearly constrained separable convex programs. In most of the cases, there are multiple blocks of variables. However, the traditional alternating direction method…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Zhouchen Lin , Risheng Liu , Huan Li

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) provides a natural way of solving inverse problems with multiple partial differential equations (PDE) forward models and nonsmooth regularization. ADMM allows splitting these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Luke Lozenski , Umberto Villa

A lift-and-permute scheme of alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is proposed for linearly constrained convex programming. It contains not only the newly developed balanced augmented Lagrangian method and its dual-primal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Shiru Li , Yong Xia , Tao Zhang

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Liang Chen , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh , Ning Zhang

This dissertation explores block decomposable methods for large-scale optimization problems. It focuses on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) schemes and block coordinate descent (BCD) methods. Specifically, it introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Leandro Farias Maia

We analyze the convergence rate of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for minimizing the sum of two or more nonsmooth convex separable functions subject to linear constraints. Previous analysis of the ADMM typically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

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

We propose a variant of alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) to solve constrained trajectory optimization problems. Our ADMM framework breaks a joint optimization into small sub-problems, leading to a low iteration cost and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ruiqi Ni , Zherong Pan , Xifeng Gao

Stackelberg prediction games (SPGs) model strategic data manipulation in adversarial learning via a leader--follower interaction between a learner and a self-interested data provider, leading to challenging bilevel optimization problems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Tong Wei , Yangjie Xu , Xinlin Wang , Pin-Han Ho , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Radu State , Björn Ottersten

Classical primal-dual algorithms attempt to solve $\max_{\mu}\min_{x} \mathcal{L}(x,\mu)$ by alternatively minimizing over the primal variable $x$ through primal descent and maximizing the dual variable $\mu$ through dual ascent. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Kaizhao Sun , Andy Sun

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Mingyan Liu

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

It is widely acknowledged that hyperparameter selection plays a critical role in the effectiveness of sparse optimization problems. The bilevel optimization provides a robust framework for addressing this issue, but these existing methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Yunhai Xiao , Anqi Liu , Peili Li , Yanyun Ding

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Lang Yu , Nanjing Huang