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In this paper we propose an efficient distributed algorithm for solving loosely coupled convex optimization problems. The algorithm is based on a primal-dual interior-point method in which we use the alternating direction method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Mariette Annergren , Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad , Anders Hansson , Bo Wahlberg

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 work, we propose a (linearized) Alternating Direction Method-of-Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for minimizing a convex function subject to a nonconvex constraint. We focus on the special case where such constraint arises from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Fabian Latorre Gómez , Armin Eftekhari , Volkan Cevher

In this paper, a stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is proposed for a class of nonsmooth composite and stochastic convex optimization problems in Hilbert space, motivated by optimization problems constrained by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Weihua Deng , Haiming Song , Hao Wang , Jinda Yang

Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a popular optimization tool for the composite and constrained problems in machine learning. However, in many machine learning problems such as black-box attacks and bandit feedback, ADMM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Feihu Huang , Shangqian Gao , Songcan Chen , Heng Huang

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

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been widely adopted in low-rank approximation and low-order model identification tasks; however, the performance of nonconvex ADMM is highly reliant on the choice of penalty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Qingyuan Liu , Zhengchao Huang , Hao Ye , Dexian Huang , Chao Shang

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a fundamental convex optimization problem with wide-ranging applications. However, solving large-scale instances remains computationally challenging due to the high cost of solving linear systems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Hantao Nie , Dong An , Zaiwen Wen

We consider minimax (saddle-point) problems of the form max_{c \in C} min_{\beta \in S} g(c; \beta), where C and S are compact convex sets, and g is concave-convex. Applying the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) requires…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Bob Wilson

In this work, we consider the distributed optimization problem in which each node has its own convex cost function and can communicate directly only with its neighbors, as determined by a directed communication topology (directed graph or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous

The parallel alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is widely recognized for its effectiveness in handling large-scale datasets stored in a distributed manner, making it a popular choice for solving statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-22 Xiaofei Wu , Zhimin Zhang , Zhenyu Cui

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

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

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is widely used for solving large-scale semidefinite programs (SDPs), yet on instances with multiple primal-dual optimal solution pairs, it often enters prolonged slow-convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Shucheng Kang , Heng Yang

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

We present a stochastic setting for optimization problems with nonsmooth convex separable objective functions over linear equality constraints. To solve such problems, we propose a stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Hua Ouyang , Niao He , Alexander Gray

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Yongcun Song , Xiaoming Yuan , Hangrui Yue

This paper proposes a provably convergent multiblock ADMM for nonconvex optimization with nonlinear dynamics constraints, overcoming the divergence issue in classical extensions. We consider a class of optimization problems that arise from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Bowen Li , Ya-xiang Yuan

We present an Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm designed to solve the Weighted Generalized Fused LASSO Signal Approximator (wFLSA). First, we show that wFLSAs can always be reformulated as a Generalized LASSO…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-26 Louis Dijkstra , Moritz Hanke , Niklas Koenen , Ronja Foraita

This technical note is an ancillary material for our research paper (Itoh and Parente, 2019). We discuss an alternating direction method of multipliers with generalized augmented terms (ADMM-GAT) and introduce a generalized residual balance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Yuki Itoh , Mario Parente