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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…
In this work, we consider the low rank decomposition (SDPR) of general convex semidefinite programming problems (SDP) that contain both a positive semidefinite matrix and a nonnegative vector as variables. We develop a rank-support-adaptive…
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…
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a popular approach for solving optimization problems that are potentially non-smooth and with hard constraints. It has been applied to various computer graphics applications,…
This paper studies a proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with variable metric indefinite proximal terms for linearly constrained convex optimization problems. The proximal ADMM plays an important role in many…
We are presenting a modification of the well-known Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm with additional preconditioning that aims at solving convex optimisation problems with nonlinear operator constraints.…
This paper introduces two decomposition-based methods for two-block mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs), which aim to take advantage of separable structures of the original problem by solving a sequence of lower-dimensional MILPs. The…
The parallel alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithms have gained popularity in statistics and machine learning due to their efficient handling of large sample data problems. However, the parallel structure of these…
Nonconvex and structured optimization problems arise in many engineering applications that demand scalable and distributed solution methods. The study of the convergence properties of these methods is in general difficult due to the…
We propose a new relative-error inexact version of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for convex optimization. We prove the asymptotic convergence of our main algorithm as well as pointwise and ergodic…
The linearly constrained convex composite programming problems whose objective function contains two blocks with each block being the form of nonsmooth+smooth arises frequently in multiple fields of applications. If both of the smooth terms…
Classical primal-dual algorithms attempt to solve $\max_{\mu}\min_{x} \mathcal{L}(x,\mu)$ by alternatively minimizing over the primal variable $x$ through primal descent and maximizing the dual variable $\mu$ through dual ascent. However,…
In this paper, we develop efficient decoders for non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes using the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). We apply ADMM to two decoding problems. The first problem is linear programming…
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…
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…
Many real-world optimization models contain exploitable sparsity and block structure, but this structure is often obscured in algebraic form, limiting the effectiveness of modern parallel algorithms. We propose an automatic pipeline that…
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…
We propose a distributed version of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) with linear updates for directed networks. We show that if the objective function of the minimization problem is smooth and strongly convex, our…
Tenfold improvements in computation speed can be brought to the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for Semidefinite Programming with virtually no decrease in robustness and provable convergence simply by projecting…
Weight pruning methods for deep neural networks (DNNs) have been investigated recently, but prior work in this area is mainly heuristic, iterative pruning, thereby lacking guarantees on the weight reduction ratio and convergence time. To…