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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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Wenbo Gao , Donald Goldfarb , Frank E. Curtis

In distributed optimization and federated learning, asynchronous alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) serves as an attractive option for large-scale optimization, data privacy, straggler nodes and variety of objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Sagar Shrestha

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is commonly used for distributed model fitting problems, but its performance and reliability depend strongly on user-defined penalty parameters. We study distributed ADMM methods that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Zheng Xu , Gavin Taylor , Hao Li , Mario Figueiredo , Xiaoming Yuan , Tom Goldstein

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a popular convex optimization algorithm, which can be employed for solving distributed consensus optimization problems. In this setting agents locally estimate the optimal solution of an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-27 Layla Majzoobi , Farshad Lahouti , Vahid Shah-Mansouri

Consider a set of networked agents endowed with private cost functions and seeking to find a consensus on the minimizer of the aggregate cost. A new class of random asynchronous distributed optimization methods is introduced. The methods…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Franck Iutzeler , Pascal Bianchi , Philippe Ciblat , Walid Hachem

We consider a network of agents that are cooperatively solving a global optimization problem, where the objective function is the sum of privately known local objective functions of the agents and the decision variables are coupled via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-01 Ermin Wei , Asuman Ozdaglar

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

In this paper, we obtain global $\mathcal{O} (1/ \sqrt{k})$ pointwise and $\mathcal{O} (1/ {k})$ ergodic convergence rates for a variable metric proximal alternating direction method of multipliers(VM-PADMM) for solving linearly constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Max L. N. Goncalves , Jefferson G. Melo , M. Marques Alves

The alternating direction method with multipliers (ADMM) has been one of most powerful and successful methods for solving various composite problems. The convergence of the conventional ADMM (i.e., 2-block) for convex objective functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Fenghui Wang , Wenfei Cao , Zongben Xu

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

In this paper, we analyze the convergence of Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) on convex quadratic programs (QPs) with linear equality and bound constraints. The ADMM formulation alternates between an equality constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Arvind U. Raghunathan , Stefano Di Cairano

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has now days gained tremendous attentions for solving large-scale machine learning and signal processing problems due to the relative simplicity. However, the two-block structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Mingxi Zhu , Kresimir Mihic , Yinyu Ye

By coordinating terminal smart devices or microprocessors to engage in cooperative computation to achieve systemlevel targets, distributed optimization is incrementally favored by both engineering and computer science. The well-known…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yu Yang , Xiaohong Guan , Qing-Shan Jia , Liang Yu , Bolun Xu , Costas J. Spanos

An evolutionary form of a generalized Bayesian update method, which is strictly derivative- free yet directed through an additive update term based purely on the statistical moments of the design variables, is proposed for nonlinear inverse…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-17 M Venugopal , D Roy , R M Vasu

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) provides a natural way of solving inverse problems with multiple partial differential equations (PDE) forward models and nonsmooth regularization. ADMM allows splitting these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Luke Lozenski , Umberto Villa

Most methods for Bundle Adjustment (BA) in computer vision are either centralized or operate incrementally. This leads to poor scaling and affects the quality of solution as the number of images grows in large scale structure from motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Chung-Ching Lin , Aleksandr Aravkin , Sharath Pankanti , Raphael Viguier

This paper considers the distributed optimization of a sum of locally observable, non-convex functions. The optimization is performed over a multi-agent networked system, and each local function depends only on a subset of the variables. An…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Sandeep Kumar , Rahul Jain , Ketan Rajawat

While convergence of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) on convex problems is well studied, convergence on nonconvex problems is only partially understood. In this paper, we consider the Gaussian phase retrieval problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-07 David Barmherzig , Ju Sun

In this paper, we depart from the widely-used gradient descent-based hierarchical federated learning (FL) algorithms to develop a novel hierarchical FL framework based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Within this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Viktoria Fodor

Recently, the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has found many efficient applications in various areas; and it has been shown that the convergence is not guaranteed when it is directly extended to the multiple-block case of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Min Tao , Xiaoming Yuan