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Large-scale constrained optimization is pivotal in modern scientific, engineering, and industrial computation, often involving complex systems with numerous variables and constraints. This paper provides a unified and comprehensive…
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…
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We study the convergence rates of the classical Lagrangian-based methods and their variants for solving convex optimization problems with equality constraints. We present a generalized prediction-correction framework to establish $O(1/K^2)$…
We introduce a principled learning to optimize (L2O) framework for solving fixed-point problems involving general nonexpansive mappings. Our idea is to deliberately inject summable perturbations into a standard Krasnosel'skii-Mann iteration…
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) proposed by Glowinski and Marrocco is a benchmark algorithm for two-block separable convex optimization problems with linear equality constraints. It has been modified, specified, and…
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Solving combinatorial optimization problems on current noisy quantum devices is currently being advocated for (and restricted to) binary polynomial optimization with equality constraints via quantum heuristic approaches. This is achieved…
The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has gained significant attention across a broad spectrum of machine learning applications. Incorporating the over-relaxation technique shows potential for enhancing the convergence rate…
We propose new methods to speed up convergence of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), a common optimization tool in the context of large scale and distributed learning. The proposed method accelerates the speed of…
This work proposes a general learned proximal alternating minimization algorithm, LPAM, for solving learnable two-block nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problems. We tackle the nonsmoothness by an appropriate smoothing technique with…
Tuning step sizes is crucial for the stability and efficiency of optimization algorithms. While adaptive coordinate-wise step sizes have been shown to outperform scalar step size in first-order methods, their use in second-order methods is…
We consider the problem of minimizing block-separable convex functions subject to linear constraints. While the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for two-block linear constraints has been intensively studied both…
In this paper, we show that for a class of linearly constrained convex composite optimization problems, an (inexact) symmetric Gauss-Seidel based majorized multi-block proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is…
This paper proposes a provably convergent multiblock ADMM for nonconvex optimization with nonlinear dynamics constraints, overcoming the divergence issue in classical extensions. We consider a class of optimization problems that arise from…
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) for science has led to the emergence of learning-based research paradigms, necessitating a compelling reevaluation of the design of multi-objective optimization (MOO) methods. The new…
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is widely used to solve large-scale linearly constrained optimization problems, convex or nonconvex, in many engineering fields. However there is a general lack of theoretical…
The primary goal of this paper is to provide an efficient solution algorithm based on the augmented Lagrangian framework for optimization problems with a stochastic objective function and deterministic constraints. Our main contribution is…
Convex quadratic programs (QPs) constitute a fundamental computational primitive across diverse domains including financial optimization, control systems, and machine learning. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has…