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As a well-known optimization framework, the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has achieved tremendous success in many classification and regression applications. Recently, it has attracted the attention of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Junxiang Wang , Hongyi Li , Liang Zhao

A method for quasistatic cohesive fracture is introduced that uses an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to implement an energy approach to cohesive fracture. The ADMM algorithm minimizes a non-smooth, non-convex potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-15 James Petrie , M. Reza Hirmand , Katerina D. Papoulia

In this paper we propose an iterative method using alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) strategy to solve linear inverse problems in Hilbert spaces with general convex penalty term. When the data is given exactly, we give a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Yuling Jiao , Qinian Jin , Xiliang Lu , Weijie Wang

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…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tsung-Hui Chang

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) and its distributed version have been widely used in machine learning. In the iterations of ADMM, model updates using local private data and model exchanges among agents impose critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Jiahao Ding , Jingyi Wang , Guannan Liang , Jinbo Bi , Miao Pan

The objective of this paper is to design an efficient and convergent alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for finding a solution of medium accuracy to conic programming problems whose constraints consist of linear equalities,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh , Liuqin Yang

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

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

We study the combination of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for a general class of nonsmooth partial differential equation (PDE)-constrained optimization problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Yongcun Song , Xiaoming Yuan , Hangrui Yue

We present a flexible Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (F-ADMM) algorithm for solving optimization problems involving a strongly convex objective function that is separable into $n \geq 2$ blocks, subject to (non-separable)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Daniel P. Robinson , Rachael E. H. Tappenden

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a versatile tool for solving a wide range of constrained optimization problems, with differentiable or non-differentiable objective functions. Unfortunately, its performance is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Zheng Xu , Mario A. T. Figueiredo , Tom Goldstein

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

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

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

We expand the scope of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Specifically, we show that ADMM, when employed to solve problems with multiaffine constraints that satisfy certain verifiable assumptions, converges to the set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Wenbo Gao , Donald Goldfarb , Frank E. Curtis

In distributed optimization and federated learning, asynchronous alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) serves as an attractive option for large-scale optimization, data privacy, straggler nodes and variety of objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Sagar Shrestha

This paper introduces a dual-regularized ADMM approach to distributed, time-varying optimization. The proposed algorithm is designed in a prediction-correction framework, in which the computing nodes predict the future local costs based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Andrea Simonetto , Ruggero Carli

We present an efficient alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for segmenting a multivariate non-stationary time series with structural breaks into stationary regions. We draw from recent work where the series is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-26 Alex Tank , Emily B. Fox , Ali Shojaie

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 propose new limiting dynamics for stochastic gradient descent in the small learning rate regime called stochastic modified flows. These SDEs are driven by a cylindrical Brownian motion and improve the so-called stochastic modified…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Benjamin Gess , Sebastian Kassing , Vitalii Konarovskyi