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Latency is inherent in almost all real-world networked applications. In this paper, we propose a distributed allocation strategy over multi-agent networks with delayed communications. The state of each agent (or node) represents its share…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous

We propose a new Bayesian approach to generalize the federated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). We show that the solutions of variational-Bayesian (VB) objectives are associated with a duality structure that not only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Thomas Möllenhoff , Siddharth Swaroop , Finale Doshi-Velez , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

We address distributed learning problems over undirected networks. Specifically, we focus on designing a novel ADMM-based algorithm that is jointly computation- and communication-efficient. Our design guarantees computational efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaoxing Ren , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini

Distributed radio interferometric calibration based on consensus optimization has been shown to improve the estimation of systematic errors in radio astronomical observations. The intrinsic continuity of systematic errors across frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 Sarod Yatawatta , Faruk Diblen , Hanno Spreeuw

We provide new connections between two distinct federated learning approaches based on (i) ADMM and (ii) Variational Bayes (VB), and propose new variants by combining their complementary strengths. Specifically, we show that the dual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Siddharth Swaroop , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Finale Doshi-Velez

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Zhengjie Xiong , Yangyang Xu

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

Alternating Direction Method of Multiplier (ADMM) has been a popular algorithmic framework for separable optimization problems with linear constraints. For numerical ADMM fail to exploit the particular structure of the problem at hand nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Risheng Liu , Pan Mu , Jin Zhang

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

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

In this paper, we study a dynamic version of the sharing problem, in which a dynamic system cost function composed of time-variant local costs of subsystems and a shared time-variant cost of the whole system is minimized. A dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Xuanyu Cao , K. J. Ray Liu

In this paper, an alternating direction method of multipliers based novel distributed wide-area control architecture is proposed for damping the interarea oscillations. In this approach, first, an interconnected power system is divided into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Abilash Thakallapelli , Sukumar Kamalasadan

We address the problem of solving convex optimization problems with many convex constraints in a distributed setting. Our approach is based on an extension of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) that recently gained a lot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Joachim Giesen , Sören Laue

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

The present work introduces the hybrid consensus alternating direction method of multipliers (H-CADMM), a novel framework for optimization over networks which unifies existing distributed optimization approaches, including the centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Meng Ma , Athanasios N. Nikolakopoulos , Georgios B. Giannakis

This work presents a new method for online selection of multiple penalty parameters for the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm applied to optimization problems with multiple constraints or functionals with block…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Luke Lozenski , Michael T. McCann , Brendt Wohlberg

Online multi-task learning (OMTL) enhances streaming data processing by leveraging the inherent relations among multiple tasks. It can be described as an optimization problem in which a single loss function is defined for multiple tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ruiyu Li , Peilin Zhao , Guangxia Li , Zhiqiang Xu , Xuewei Li

Privacy-preserving distributed machine learning becomes increasingly important due to the recent rapid growth of data. This paper focuses on a class of regularized empirical risk minimization (ERM) machine learning problems, and develops…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Tao Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

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)…

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