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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

Ensemble Kalman Inversion (EnKI) and Ensemble Square Root Filter (EnSRF) are popular sampling methods for obtaining a target posterior distribution. They can be seem as one step (the analysis step) in the data assimilation method Ensemble…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Zhiyan Ding , Qin Li , Jianfeng Lu

This paper investigates the collision-free control problem for multi-agent systems. For such multi-agent systems, it is the typical situation where conventional methods using either the usual centralized model predictive control (MPC), or…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zilong Cheng , Jun Ma , Wenxin Wang , Zicheng Zhu , Clarence W. de Silva , Tong Heng Lee

Ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI) is a derivative-free, particle-based optimization method for solving inverse problems. It can be shown that EKI approximates a gradient flow, which allows the application of methods for accelerating gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Sydney Vernon , Eviatar Bach , Oliver R. A. Dunbar

In this paper, the elliptic PDE-constrained optimization problem with box constraints on the control is studied. To numerically solve the problem, we apply the 'optimize-discretize-optimize' strategy. Specifically, the alternating direction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Xiaotong Chen , Xiaoliang Song , Zixuan Chen , Bo Yu

The alternating direction method with multipliers (ADMM) has been one of most powerful and successful methods for solving various convex or nonconvex composite problems that arise in the fields of image & signal processing and machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Fenghui Wang , Zongben Xu , Hong-Kun Xu

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) were extensively investigated in the past decades for solving separable convex optimization problems. Fewer researchers focused on exploring its convergence properties for the nonconvex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Jianchao Bai , Junli Liang , Ke Guo , Yang Jing

The ensemble Kalman filter is a well-known and celebrated data assimilation algorithm. It is of particular relevance as it used for high-dimensional problems, by updating an ensemble of particles through a sample mean and covariance…

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This paper aims to develop distributed algorithms for nonconvex optimization problems with complicated constraints associated with a network. The network can be a physical one, such as an electric power network, where the constraints are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Kaizhao Sun , X. Andy Sun

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

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a Monte Carlo approximation of the Kalman filter for high dimensional linear Gaussian state space models. EnKF methods have also been developed for parameter inference of static Bayesian models with a…

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo , Meisam Razaviyayn

In this paper, we analyze the convergence of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for minimizing a nonconvex and possibly nonsmooth objective function, $\phi(x_0,\ldots,x_p,y)$, subject to coupled linear equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Yu Wang , Wotao Yin , Jinshan Zeng

In this paper, we propose a unified framework of inexact stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for solving nonconvex problems subject to linear constraints, whose objective comprises an average of finite-sum smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Yuxuan Zeng , Jianchao Bai , Shengjia Wang , Zhiguo Wang

This paper proposes and analyzes a dampened proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (DP.ADMM) for solving linearly-constrained nonconvex optimization problems where the smooth part of the objective function is nonseparable.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Weiwei Kong , Renato D. C. Monteiro

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

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has gained increasing popularity in embedded model predictive control (MPC) due to its code simplicity and pain-free parameter selection. However, existing ADMM solvers either target…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Liang Wu , Bo Yang , Junheng Li , Xu Yang , Yilin Mo , Yang Shi , Aaron D. Ames , Ján Drgoňa

This paper develops an adaptive proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained, composite optimization problems under the assumption that the smooth component of the objective is weakly convex,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Leandro Farias Maia , David H. Gutman , Renato D. C. Monteiro , Gilson N. Silva

This paper introduces a novel approach to solving multi-block nonconvex composite optimization problems through a proximal linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). This method incorporates an Increasing Penalization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ganzhao Yuan

Variational inference (VI) combined with Bayesian nonlinear filtering produces state-of-the-art results for latent time-series modeling. A body of recent work has focused on sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) and its variants, e.g., forward…

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