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In this paper we analyze several inexact fast augmented Lagrangian methods for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems. Mainly, our methods rely on the combination of excessive-gap-like smoothing technique developed in…

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This paper proposes and establishes the iteration-complexity of an inexact proximal accelerated augmented Lagrangian (IPAAL) method for solving linearly constrained smooth nonconvex composite optimization problems. Each IPAAL iteration…

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We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth function and a composition of a zero-one loss function with a linear operator, namely zero-one composite optimization problem (0/1-COP). It is a versatile model including the support…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Penghe Zhang , Naihua Xiu

This work investigates the convergence behavior of augmented Lagrangian methods (ALMs) when applied to convex optimization problems that may be infeasible. ALMs are a popular class of algorithms for solving constrained optimization…

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In this paper, we consider the linearly constrained composite convex optimization problem, whose objective is a sum of a smooth function and a possibly nonsmooth function. We propose an inexact augmented Lagrangian (IAL) framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Ya-Feng Liu , Xin Liu , Shiqian Ma

This paper proposes QPALM, a proximal augmented Lagrangian method based on quadratic approximations, for solving nonlinear programming problems with weakly convex objective and constraint functions. The algorithm is constructed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Yule Zhang , Benqi Liu , Xiantao Xiao , Liwei Zhang

This paper establishes the iteration-complexity of an inner accelerated inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian (IAIPAL) method for solving linearly-constrained smooth nonconvex composite optimization problems that is based on the classical…

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We introduce a twice differentiable augmented Lagrangian for nonlinear optimization with general inequality constraints and show that a strict local minimizer of the original problem is an approximate strict local solution of the augmented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Xin-Wei Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Ya-Kui Huang , Jie Sun

This paper proposes and analyzes a proximal augmented Lagrangian (NL-IAPIAL) method for solving smooth nonconvex composite optimization problems with nonlinear $\cal K$-convex constraints, i.e., the constraints are convex with respect to…

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In this paper, we adopt the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) to solve convex quadratic second-order cone programming problems (SOCPs). Fruitful results on the efficiency of the ALM have been established in the literature. Recently, it has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Ling Liang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

In this paper, we consider a nonconvex optimization problem with nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that both, the objective function and the functional constraints are locally smooth. For solving this problem, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Ion Necoara

Most recently, He and Yuan [arXiv:2108.08554, 2021] have proposed a balanced augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) for the canonical convex programming problem with linear constraints, which advances the original ALM by balancing its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Shengjie Xu

This paper addresses a class of general nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problems subject to nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that a part of the objective function and the functional constraints exhibit local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Ion Necoara , Panagiotis Patrinos , Quoc Tran-Dinh

We propose an inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian framework with explicit inner problem termination rule for composite convex optimization problems. We consider arbitrary linearly convergent inner solver including in particular stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Fei Li , Zheng Qu

Local convergence analysis of the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) is established for a large class of composite optimization problems with nonunique Lagrange multipliers under a second-order sufficient condition. We present a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Nguyen T. V. Hang , Ebrahim Sarabi

This paper is devoted to the theoretical and numerical investigation of an augmented Lagrangian method for the solution of optimization problems with geometric constraints. Specifically, we study situations where parts of the constraints…

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In this paper, we establish for the first time the oracle complexity of a Riemannian inexact augmented Lagrangian (RiAL) method with the classical dual update for solving a class of Riemannian nonsmooth composite problems. By using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Meng Xu , Bo Jiang , Ya-Feng Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So

We introduce a new form of Lagrangian and propose a simple first-order algorithm for nonconvex optimization with nonlinear equality constraints. We show the algorithm generates bounded dual iterates, and establish the convergence to KKT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Jong Gwang Kim

We consider a nonsmooth optimization problem on Riemannian manifold, whose objective function is the sum of a differentiable component and a nonsmooth convex function. We propose a manifold inexact augmented Lagrangian method (MIALM) for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Deng Kangkang , Peng Zheng

Motivated by big data applications, first-order methods have been extremely popular in recent years. However, naive gradient methods generally converge slowly. Hence, much efforts have been made to accelerate various first-order methods.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Yangyang Xu