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Many modern computer vision and machine learning applications rely on solving difficult optimization problems that involve non-differentiable objective functions and constraints. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Zheng Xu , Mario A. T. Figueiredo , Xiaoming Yuan , Christoph Studer , Tom Goldstein

Bayesian models provide a framework for probabilistic modelling of complex datasets. However, many of such models are computationally demanding especially in the presence of large datasets. On the other hand, in sensor network applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-06 Behnam Babagholami-Mohamadabadi , Sejong Yoon , Vladimir Pavlovic

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 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

Variational Bayes (VB) provides a computationally efficient alternative to Markov Chain Monte Carlo, especially for high-dimensional and large-scale inference. However, existing theory on VB primarily focuses on fixed-dimensional settings…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Jiawei Yan , Peirong Xu , Tao Wang

We propose a Block Majorization Minimization method with Extrapolation (BMMe) for solving a class of multi-convex optimization problems. The extrapolation parameters of BMMe are updated using a novel adaptive update rule. By showing that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Valentin Leplat , Nicolas Gillis

We present a new duality theory for non-convex variational problems, under possibly mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The dual problem reads nicely as a linear programming problem, and our main result states that there is no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Guy Bouchitté , Ilaria Fragalà

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm has been widely adopted for solving the distributed optimization problem (DOP). In this paper, a new distributed parallel ADMM algorithm is proposed, which allows the agents to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Ziye Liu , Fanghong Guo , Wei Wang , Xiaoqun Wu

We propose a novel method for fast and accurate training of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to find solutions to boundary value problems (BVPs) and initial boundary value problems (IBVPs). By combining the methods of training deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Abhiram Anand Thiruthummal , Sergiy Shelyag , Eun-jin Kim

Parabolic optimal control problems with control constraints are generally challenging, from either theoretical analysis or algorithmic design perspectives. Conceptually, the well-known alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Yongcun Song , Xiaoming Yuan , Hangrui Yue

We propose a predictor-corrector adaptive method for the simulation of hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) on networks under general uncertainty in parameters, initial conditions, or boundary conditions. The approach is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Jake J. Harmon , Svetlana Tokareva , Anatoly Zlotnik

An algorithm is proposed to implement unsteady jump boundary conditions, presenting discontinuity in physical quantities, within the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). This is useful to tackle problems involving mass or heat transfer through…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Badr Kaoui

The primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) method is one of the most popular algorithms for solving saddle point problems. However, when applying the PDHG method and its many variants to some real-world models commonly encountered in signal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jintao Yu , Hongjin He

This study investigates the variational posterior convergence rates of inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs) with parameters in Besov spaces $B_{pp}^\alpha$ ($p \geq 1$) which are modeled naturally in a Bayesian manner…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Shaokang Zu , Junxiong Jia , Zhiguo Wang

Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a popular optimization tool for the composite and constrained problems in machine learning. However, in many machine learning problems such as black-box attacks and bandit feedback, ADMM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Feihu Huang , Shangqian Gao , Songcan Chen , Heng Huang

Due to the explosion in size and complexity of modern data sets and privacy concerns of data holders, it is increasingly important to be able to solve machine learning problems in distributed manners. The Alternating Direction Method of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Alberto Leon Garcia

We consider a system of two singularly perturbed Boundary Value Problems (BVPs) of convection-diffusion type with discontinuous source terms and a small positive parameter multiplying the highest derivatives. Then their solutions exhibit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-09 A. Ramesh Babu

In this paper, we present a new control model for optimizing pressure and water quality operations in water distribution networks. Our formulation imposes a set of time-coupling constraints to manage temporal pressure variations, which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Bradley Jenks , Aly-Joy Ulusoy , Filippo Pecci , Ivan Stoianov

In this paper, we investigate optimal stopping problems in a continuous-time framework where only a discrete set of stopping dates is admissible, corresponding to the Bermudan option, within the so-called exploratory formulation. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Noufel Frikha , Libo Li , Daniel Chee

In recent years, by using Bregman distance, the Lipschitz gradient continuity and strong convexity were lifted and replaced by relative smoothness and relative strong convexity. Under the mild assumptions, it was proved that gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Jian Chen , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang