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The primal-dual algorithm recently proposed by Chambolle & Pock (abbreviated as CPA) for structured convex optimization is very efficient and popular. It was shown by Chambolle & Pock in \cite{CP11} and also by Shefi & Teboulle in…
Nonlinearly constrained nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization models play an increasingly important role in machine learning, statistics and data analytics. In this paper, based on the augmented Lagrangian function we introduce a flexible…
We consider the minimization of a sum of a smooth function with a nonsmooth composite function, where the composition is applied on a random linear mapping. This random composite model encompasses many problems, and can especially capture…
We implement an Augmented Lagrangian method to minimize a constrained least-squares cost function designed to find polyadic decompositions of the matrix multiplication tensor. We use this method to obtain new discrete decompositions and…
Model predictive control is a powerful tool to generate complex motions for robots. However, it often requires solving non-convex problems online to produce rich behaviors, which is computationally expensive and not always practical in real…
Mixed-precision arithmetic offers significant computational advantages for large-scale matrix computation tasks, yet preserving accuracy and stability in eigenvalue problems and the singular value decomposition (SVD) remains challenging.…
In this paper, we consider a network of agents that jointly aim to minimise the sum of local functions subject to coupling constraints involving all local variables. To solve this problem, we propose a novel solution based on a primal-dual…
Estimation of nonlinear dynamic models from data poses many challenges, including model instability and non-convexity of long-term simulation fidelity. Recently Lagrangian relaxation has been proposed as a method to approximate simulation…
This paper presents two new techniques relating to inexact solution of subproblems in augmented Lagrangian methods for convex programming. The first involves combining a relative error criterion for solution of the subproblems with over- or…
Reducing the computation time of model predictive control (MPC) is important, especially for systems constrained by many state constraints. In this paper, we propose a new online constraint removal framework for linear systems, for which we…
Despite the non-convexity of most modern machine learning parameterizations, Lagrangian duality has become a popular tool for addressing constrained learning problems. We revisit Augmented Lagrangian methods, which aim to mitigate the…
A novel algorithm to solve the quadratic programming problem over ellipsoids is proposed. This is achieved by splitting the problem into two optimisation sub-problems, quadratic programming over a sphere and orthogonal projection. Next, an…
This paper presents an efficient quadratic programming (QP) decoder via the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) technique, called QP-ADMM, for binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Its main contents are as follows:…
We present several key advances to the Physics and Equality Constrained Artificial Neural Networks (PECANN) framework, substantially improving its capacity to solve challenging partial differential equations (PDEs). Our enhancements broaden…
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…
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…
We study the problem of learning policy of an infinite-horizon, discounted cost, Markov decision process (MDP) with a large number of states. We compute the actions of a policy that is nearly as good as a policy chosen by a suitable oracle…
The main contribution of this thesis is the development of a new algorithm for solving convex quadratic programs. It consists in combining the method of multipliers with an infeasible active-set method. Our approach is iterative. In each…
In this paper, we present efficient solutions for the nonlinear program (NLP) associated with nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) by leveraging the linear parameter-varying (LPV) embedding of nonlinear models and sequential quadratic…
Augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) has been popularly used for solving constrained optimization problems. Practically, subproblems for updating primal variables in the framework of ALM usually can only be solved inexactly. The convergence…