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We consider minimax (saddle-point) problems of the form max_{c \in C} min_{\beta \in S} g(c; \beta), where C and S are compact convex sets, and g is concave-convex. Applying the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) requires…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Bob Wilson

In decentralized consensus optimization, a connected network of agents collaboratively minimize the sum of their local objective functions over a common decision variable, where their information exchange is restricted between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Kun Yuan , Gang Wu , Wotao Yin

In this paper, we aim to accelerate a preconditioned alternating direction method of multipliers (pADMM), whose proximal terms are convex quadratic functions, for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems. To achieve this,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Defeng Sun , Yancheng Yuan , Guojun Zhang , Xinyuan Zhao

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-15 Huahua Wang , Arindam Banerjee , Zhi-Quan Luo

This work studies the linear convergence of an accelerated scheme of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for strongly convex and Lipschitz-smooth problems. We use the methodology of expressing the accelerated ADMM as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Meisam Tavakoli , Fabian Jakob , Guido Carnevale , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Andrea Iannelli

Due to massive amounts of data distributed across multiple locations, distributed machine learning has attracted a lot of research interests. Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful method of designing distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jiahao Ding , Xiaoqi Qin , Wenjun Xu , Yanmin Gong , Chi Zhang , Miao Pan

We extend a primal-dual fixed point algorithm (PDFP) proposed in [5] to solve two kinds of separable multi-block minimization problems, arising in signal processing and imaging science. This work shows the flexibility of applying PDFP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Peijun Chen , Jianguo Huang , Xiaoqun Zhang

In this paper, we establish the convergence of the proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) and block coordinate descent (BCD) for nonseparable minimization models with quadratic coupling terms. The novel convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Caihua Chen , Min Li , Xin Liu , Yinyu Ye

In this paper, we study a class of non-convex optimization problems known as multi-affine quadratic equality constrained problems, which appear in various applications--from generating feasible force trajectories in robotic locomotion and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Yutong Chao , Michal Ciebielski , Jalal Etesami , Majid Khadiv

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a popular method for solving convex separable minimization problems with linear equality constraints. The generalization of the two-block ADMM to the three-block ADMM is not trivial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Yang Yang , Yuchao Tang , Jigen Peng

Optimal transport on a graph focuses on finding the most efficient way to transfer resources from one distribution to another while considering the graph's structure. This paper introduces a new distributed algorithm that solves the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yacine Mokhtari , Emmanuel Moulay , Patrick Coirault , Jérôme Le Ny

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been popular for solving many signal processing problems, convex or nonconvex. In this paper, we study an asynchronous implementation of the ADMM for solving a nonconvex nonsmooth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Mingyi Hong

Alternating Direction Method of Multiplier (ADMM) has been a popular algorithmic framework for separable optimization problems with linear constraints. For numerical ADMM fail to exploit the particular structure of the problem at hand nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Risheng Liu , Pan Mu , Jin Zhang

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been widely used for solving structured convex optimization problems. In particular, the ADMM can solve convex programs that minimize the sum of $N$ convex functions with $N$-block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

We consider a resource allocation problem over an undirected network of agents, where edges of the network define communication links. The goal is to minimize the sum of agent-specific convex objective functions, while the agents' decisions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Goran Banjac , Felix Rey , Paul Goulart , John Lygeros

We propose a distributed algorithm based on Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to minimize the sum of locally known convex functions using communication over a network. This optimization problem emerges in many applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Ali Makhdoumi , Asuman Ozdaglar

We formulate the problem of neural network optimization as Bayesian filtering, where the observations are the backpropagated gradients. While neural network optimization has previously been studied using natural gradient methods which are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-17 Laurence Aitchison

In recent years, several convergent multi-block variants of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) have been proposed for solving the convex quadratic semidefinite programming via its dual, which is naturally a 3-block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Xiaokai Chang , Liang Chen , Sanyang Liu

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a common optimization tool for solving constrained and non-differentiable problems. We provide an empirical study of the practical performance of ADMM on several nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Zheng Xu , Soham De , Mario Figueiredo , Christoph Studer , Tom Goldstein

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