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The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is one of the most widely used first-order optimisation methods in the literature owing to its simplicity, flexibility and efficiency. Over the years, numerous efforts are made to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Clarice Poon , Jingwei Liang

Quantization of the parameters of machine learning models, such as deep neural networks, requires solving constrained optimization problems, where the constraint set is formed by the Cartesian product of many simple discrete sets. For such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Tianjian Huang , Prajwal Singhania , Maziar Sanjabi , Pabitra Mitra , Meisam Razaviyayn

This work investigates the theoretical performance of the alternating-direction method of multipliers (ADMM) as it applies to nonconvex optimization problems, and in particular, problems with nonconvex constraint sets. The alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Stuart M. Harwood

In this paper, we consider solving multiple-block separable convex minimization problems using alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Motivated by the fact that the existing convergence theory for ADMM is mostly limited to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Xiangfeng Wang , Mingyi Hong , Shiqian Ma , Zhi-Quan Luo

We propose a variant of alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) to solve constrained trajectory optimization problems. Our ADMM framework breaks a joint optimization into small sub-problems, leading to a low iteration cost and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ruiqi Ni , Zherong Pan , Xifeng Gao

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 an effective method for solving wide fields of convex problems. At each iteration, the classical ADMM solves two subproblems exactly. However, in many applications, it is expensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Yan Gu , Nobuo Yamashita

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a most widely used optimization scheme for solving linearly constrained separable convex optimization problems. The convergence of the ADMM can be guaranteed when the dual step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

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

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has emerged as a powerful technique for large-scale structured optimization. Despite many recent results on the convergence properties of ADMM, a quantitative characterization of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Euhanna Ghadimi , André Teixeira , Iman Shames , Mikael Johansson

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

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,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Juyong Zhang , Yue Peng , Wenqing Ouyang , Bailin Deng

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has become a widely used optimization method for convex problems, particularly in the context of data mining in which large optimization problems are often encountered. ADMM has several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-11 Andre Goncalves , Xiaoli Liu , Arindam Banerjee

We analyze the convergence rate of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for minimizing the sum of two or more nonsmooth convex separable functions subject to linear constraints. Previous analysis of the ADMM typically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-04 Sindri Magnússon , Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana , Michael G. Rabbat , Carlo Fischione

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been recognized as a versatile approach for solving modern large-scale machine learning and signal processing problems efficiently. When the data size and/or the problem dimension…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tsung-Hui Chang , Wei-Cheng Liao , Mingyi Hong , Xiangfeng Wang

The semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation has proven to be extremely strong for many hard discrete optimization problems. This is in particular true for the quadratic assignment problem (QAP), arguably one of the hardest NP-hard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-18 Danilo Elias Oliveira , Henry Wolkowicz , Yangyang Xu

This paper proposes a dual Riemannian alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving low-rank semidefinite programs with unit diagonal constraints. We recast the ADMM subproblem as a Riemannian optimization problem over the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Jie Wang , Liangbing Hu , Bican Xia

This note serves two purposes. Firstly, we construct a counterexample to show that the statement on the convergence of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Liang Chen , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

The Douglas--Rachford (DR) and alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) are two proximal splitting algorithms designed to minimize the sum of two proper lower semi-continuous convex functions whose proximity operators are easy to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Jingwei Liang , Jalal Fadili , Gabriel Peyré