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This paper presents a hybrid CPU-GPU framework for solving combinatorial scheduling problems formulated as Integer Linear Programming (ILP). While scheduling underpins many optimization tasks in computing systems, solving these problems…

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This article explores distributed convex optimization with globally-coupled constraints, where the objective function is a general nonsmooth convex function, the constraints include nonlinear inequalities and affine equalities, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Zixuan Liu , Xuyang Wu , Dandan Wang , Jie Lu

In this paper, we consider an approach to the parallelizing of the algorithms realizing the modified probability changigng method with adaptation and partial rollback procedure for constrained pseudo-Boolean optimization problems. Existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Lev Kazakovtsev

This paper aims at proposing a procedure to derive distributed algorithms for distributed consensus-based optimization by using distributed algorithms for network resource allocation and vice versa over switching networks with/without…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Seyyed Shaho Alaviani , Atul Gajanan Kelkar , Umesh Vaidya

Asynchronous distributed algorithms are a popular way to reduce synchronization costs in large-scale optimization, and in particular for neural network training. However, for nonsmooth and nonconvex objectives, few convergence guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Malcolm Egan , Bapi Chatterjee , Dan Alistarh

This paper presents the Distributed Primal Outer Approximation (DiPOA) algorithm for solving Sparse Convex Programming (SCP) problems with separable structures, efficiently, and in a decentralized manner. The DiPOA algorithm development…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Alireza Olama , Eduardo Camponogara , Paulo R. C. Mendes

In this paper, a distributed convex optimization algorithm, termed \emph{distributed coordinate dual averaging} (DCDA) algorithm, is proposed. The DCDA algorithm addresses the scenario of a large distributed optimization problem with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Milind Rao , Stefano Rini , Andrea Goldsmith

We develop a new consensus-based distributed algorithm for solving learning problems with feature partitioning and non-smooth convex objective functions. Such learning problems are not separable, i.e., the associated objective functions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Cristiano Gratton , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Reza Arablouei , Stefan Werner

Currently, many machine learning algorithms contain lots of iterations. When it comes to existing large-scale distributed systems, some slave nodes may break down or have lower efficiency. Therefore traditional machine learning algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Junxiong Wang , Hongzhi Wang , Chenxu Zhao

The distributed optimization problem is set up in a collection of nodes interconnected via a communication network. The goal is to find the minimizer of a global objective function formed by the addition of partial functions locally known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Damián Marelli , Yong Xu , Minyue Fu , Zenghong Huang

We propose an algorithm for distributed optimization over time-varying communication networks. Our algorithm uses an optimized ratio between the number of rounds of communication and gradient evaluations to achieve fast convergence. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

This paper first proposes an N-block PCPM algorithm to solve N-block convex optimization problems with both linear and nonlinear constraints, with global convergence established. A linear convergence rate under the strong second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Run Chen , Andrew L. Liu

Combinatorial optimization problems are widespread but inherently challenging due to their discrete nature. The primary limitation of existing methods is that they can only access a small fraction of the solution space at each iteration,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-27 Hengyuan Ma , Wenlian Lu , Jianfeng Feng

We improve the performance of multigrid solvers on many-core architectures with cache hierarchies by reorganizing operations in the smoothing step to minimize memory transfers. We focus on patch smoothers, which offer robust convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Michał Wichrowski , Peter Munch , Martin Kronbichler , Guido Kanschat

Hardware compute power has been growing at an unprecedented rate in recent years. The utilization of such advancements plays a key role in producing better results in less time -- both in academia and industry. However, merging the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Vineeth S

Dense image matching is a fundamental low-level problem in Computer Vision, which has received tremendous attention from both discrete and continuous optimization communities. The goal of this paper is to combine the advantages of discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Alexander Shekhovtsov , Christian Reinbacher , Gottfried Graber , Thomas Pock

Optimization-based solvers play a central role in a wide range of signal processing and communication tasks. However, their applicability in latency-sensitive systems is limited by the sequential nature of iterative methods and the high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Dvir Avrahami , Amit Milstein , Caroline Chaux , Tirza Routtenberg , Nir Shlezinger

In this article the most fundamental decomposition-based optimization method - block coordinate search, based on the sequential decomposition of problems in subproblems - and building performance simulation programs are used to reason about…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Gian Luca Brunetti

In this paper, we study the distributed optimization problem using approximate first-order information. We suppose the agent can repeatedly call an inexact first-order oracle of each individual objective function and exchange information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Kui Zhu , Yichen Zhang , Yutao Tang

This technical note studies the distributed optimization problem of a sum of nonsmooth convex cost functions with local constraints. At first, we propose a novel distributed continuous-time projected algorithm, in which each agent knows its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Xianlin Zeng , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong