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The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been studied for years. The traditional ADMM algorithm needs to compute, at each iteration, an (empirical) expected loss function on all training examples, resulting in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-10 Peilin Zhao , Jinwei Yang , Tong Zhang , Ping Li

In this paper we consider from two different aspects the proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) in Hilbert spaces. We first consider the application of the proximal ADMM to solve well-posed linearly constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Qinian Jin

We give a general proof of convergence for the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). ADMM is an optimization algorithm that has recently become very popular due to its capabilities to solve large-scale and/or distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-13 João F. C. Mota , João M. F. Xavier , Pedro M. Q. Aguiar , Markus Püschel

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a popular algorithm for distributed learning, where a network of nodes collaboratively solve a regularized empirical risk minimization by iterative local computation associated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zonghao Huang , Yanmin Gong

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a common optimization tool for solving constrained and non-differentiable problems. We provide an empirical study of the practical performance of ADMM on several nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Zheng Xu , Soham De , Mario Figueiredo , Christoph Studer , Tom Goldstein

In this paper, we consider solving multiple-block separable convex minimization problems using alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Motivated by the fact that the existing convergence theory for ADMM is mostly limited to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Xiangfeng Wang , Mingyi Hong , Shiqian Ma , Zhi-Quan Luo

Convex quadratic programs (QPs) constitute a fundamental computational primitive across diverse domains including financial optimization, control systems, and machine learning. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Xi Gao , Jinxin Xiong , Linxin Yang , Akang Wang , Weiwei Xu , Jiang Xue

We propose an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to solve an optimization problem stemming from inverse lithography. The objective functional of the optimization problem includes three terms: the misfit between the imaging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Junqing Chen , Haibo Liu

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a popular approach for solving optimization problems that are potentially non-smooth and with hard constraints. It has been applied to various computer graphics applications,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Juyong Zhang , Yue Peng , Wenqing Ouyang , Bailin Deng

We consider a proximal operator given by a quadratic function subject to bound constraints and give an optimization algorithm using the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). The algorithm is particularly efficient to solve a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán

We present a novel framework, namely AADMM, for acceleration of linearized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). The basic idea of AADMM is to incorporate a multi-step acceleration scheme into linearized ADMM. We demonstrate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-13 Yuyuan Ouyang , Yunmei Chen , Guanghui Lan , Eduardo Pasiliao

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is one of the most widely used first-order optimisation methods in the literature owing to its simplicity, flexibility and efficiency. Over the years, numerous efforts are made to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Clarice Poon , Jingwei Liang

We consider a class of integer-constrained optimization problems governed by partial differential equation (PDE) constraints and regularized via total variation (TV) in the context of topology optimization. The presence of discrete design…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Harsh Choudhary , Sven Leyffer , Dominic Yang

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADM or ADMM) breaks a complex optimization problem into much simpler subproblems. The ADM algorithms are typically short and easy to implement yet exhibit (nearly) state-of-the-art…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Ming Yan , Wotao Yin

We address the problem of solving convex optimization problems with many convex constraints in a distributed setting. Our approach is based on an extension of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) that recently gained a lot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Joachim Giesen , Sören Laue

The generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) of Xiao et al. [{\tt Math. Prog. Comput., 2018}] aims at the two-block linearly constrained composite convex programming problem, in which each block is in the form of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Hongwu Li , Haibin Zhang , Yunhai Xiao

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

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 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) were extensively investigated in the past decades for solving separable convex optimization problems. Fewer researchers focused on exploring its convergence properties for the nonconvex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Jianchao Bai , Junli Liang , Ke Guo , Yang Jing