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Non-convex constrained optimizations are ubiquitous in robotic applications such as multi-agent navigation, UAV trajectory optimization, and soft robot simulation. For this problem class, conventional optimizers suffer from small step sizes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Zherong Pan , Kui Wu

This paper proposes a proximal variant of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for distributed optimization. Although the current versions of ADMM algorithm provide promising numerical results in producing solutions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Reza Mirzaeifard , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Alexander Jung , Stefan Werner

The storage and computation requirements of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can be prohibitive for exploiting these models over low-power or embedded devices. This paper reduces the computational complexity of the CNNs by minimizing an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Farkhondeh Kiaee , Christian Gagné , Mahdieh Abbasi

This work investigates the theoretical performance of the alternating-direction method of multipliers (ADMM) as it applies to nonconvex optimization problems, and in particular, problems with nonconvex constraint sets. The alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Stuart M. Harwood

The framework of Integral Quadratic Constraints (IQC) reduces the computation of upper bounds on the convergence rate of several optimization algorithms to a semi-definite program (SDP). In the case of over-relaxed Alternating Direction…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Guilherme França , José Bento

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 addresses the problem of nonconvex nonsmooth decentralised optimisation in multi-agent networks with undirected connected communication graphs. Our contribution lies in introducing an algorithmic framework designed for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Behnam Mafakheri , Jonathan H. Manton , Iman Shames

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been proved to be effective for solving separable convex optimization subject to linear constraints. In this paper, we propose a Generalized Symmetric ADMM (GS-ADMM), which updates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Jianchao Bai , Jicheng Li , Fengmin Xu , Hongchao Zhang

In this paper, we propose an inexact multi-block ADMM-type first-order method for solving a class of high-dimensional convex composite conic optimization problems to moderate accuracy. The design of this method combines an inexact 2-block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Liang Chen , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

The parallel alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is widely recognized for its effectiveness in handling large-scale datasets stored in a distributed manner, making it a popular choice for solving statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-22 Xiaofei Wu , Zhimin Zhang , Zhenyu Cui

This paper investigates the distributed stochastic nonconvex and nonsmooth composite optimization problem. Existing stochastic typically rely on uniform step size strictly bounded by global network parameters, such as the maximum node…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yangming Zhang , Yongyang Xiong , Jinming Xu , Keyou You , Yang Shi

This paper presents centralized and distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) frameworks for solving large-scale nonconvex optimization problems with binary decision variables subject to spanning tree or rooted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yacine Mokhtari

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been used successfully in many conventional machine learning applications and is considered to be a useful alternative to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as a deep learning optimizer.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Junxiang Wang , Fuxun Yu , Xiang Chen , Liang Zhao

In this paper we propose a randomized primal-dual proximal block coordinate updating framework for a general multi-block convex optimization model with coupled objective function and linear constraints. Assuming mere convexity, we establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Xiang Gao , Yangyang Xu , Shuzhong Zhang

In this paper, we propose a faster stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for nonconvex optimization by using a new stochastic path-integrated differential estimator (SPIDER), called as SPIDER-ADMM. Moreover, we prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Feihu Huang , Songcan Chen , Heng Huang

We study the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth convex regularizer over a compact Riemannian submanifold embedded in Euclidean space. By introducing an auxiliary splitting variable, we propose an adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Kangkang Deng , Jiachen Jin , Jiang Hu , Hongxia Wang

We propose a new method for computing Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) evolution matrices, which we use to analyze dynamical systems. Unlike the majority of existing methods, our approach is based on a variational formulation consisting of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Omri Azencot , Wotao Yin , Andrea Bertozzi

In this paper we propose an efficient distributed algorithm for solving loosely coupled convex optimization problems. The algorithm is based on a primal-dual interior-point method in which we use the alternating direction method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Mariette Annergren , Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad , Anders Hansson , Bo Wahlberg

We introduce a generalization of the linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers to optimize a real-valued function $f$ of multiple arguments with potentially multiple constraints $g_\circ$ on each of them. The function $f$ may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Fred Moolekamp , Peter Melchior

We propose a new relative-error inexact version of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for convex optimization. We prove the asymptotic convergence of our main algorithm as well as pointwise and ergodic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 M. Marques Alves , M. Geremia