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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…
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…
In this paper we propose an Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for solving a Model Predictive Control (MPC) optimization problem, in which the system has state and input constraints and a nonlinear input map. The…
Many practical applications of optimal control are subject to real-time computational constraints. When applying model predictive control (MPC) in these settings, respecting timing constraints is achieved by limiting the number of…
Distributed optimization has attracted lots of attention in the operation of power systems in recent years, where a large area is decomposed into smaller control regions each solving a local optimization problem with periodic information…
By coordinating terminal smart devices or microprocessors to engage in cooperative computation to achieve systemlevel targets, distributed optimization is incrementally favored by both engineering and computer science. The well-known…
We present the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Performance Boosting (ADMM-PB), an approach to design performance boosting controllers for stable or pre-stabilized nonlinear systems, while explicitly seeking input and state…
We consider the problem of minimizing block-separable convex functions subject to linear constraints. While the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for two-block linear constraints has been intensively studied both…
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…
Recent advances in neural-network architecture allow for seamless integration of convex optimization problems as differentiable layers in an end-to-end trainable neural network. Integrating medium and large scale quadratic programs into a…
Distributed phased arrays based multiple-input multiple-output (DPA-MIMO) is a recently proposed highly reconfigurable architecture enabling both spatial multiplexing and beamforming in millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems. In this work, we…
This paper studies efficient distributed optimization methods for multi-agent networks. Specifically, we consider a convex optimization problem with a globally coupled linear equality constraint and local polyhedra constraints, and develop…
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…
In this paper, we introduce a unified framework for studying various cloud traffic management problems, ranging from geographical load balancing to backbone traffic engineering. We first abstract these real-world problems as a…
This paper presents identification of both network connected systems as well as distributed systems governed by PDEs in the framework of distributed optimization via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers. This approach opens first…
This paper shows the capability the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has to track, in a distributed manner, the optimal down-link beam-forming solution in a multiple input multiple output (MISO) multi-cell network given a…
In this work, we present a hardware compatible neural network training algorithm in which we used alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) and iterative least-square methods. The motive behind this approach was to conduct a method…
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…
We propose a distributed version of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) with linear updates for directed networks. We show that if the objective function of the minimization problem is smooth and strongly convex, our…
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been recognized as a versatile approach for solving modern large-scale machine learning and signal processing problems efficiently. When the data size and/or the problem dimension…