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In this paper we propose a corrected semi-proximal ADMM (alternating direction method of multipliers) for the general $p$-block $(p\!\ge 3)$ convex optimization problems with linear constraints, aiming to resolve the dilemma that almost all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Li Shen , Shaohua Pan

Stochastic version of alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) and its variants (linearized ADMM, gradient-based ADMM) plays a key role for modern large scale machine learning problems. One example is the regularized empirical risk…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Xiang Zhou , Huizhuo Yuan , Chris Junchi Li , Qingyun Sun

In this work, we propose a (linearized) Alternating Direction Method-of-Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for minimizing a convex function subject to a nonconvex constraint. We focus on the special case where such constraint arises from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Fabian Latorre Gómez , Armin Eftekhari , Volkan Cevher

Zeroth-order (a.k.a, derivative-free) methods are a class of effective optimization methods for solving complex machine learning problems, where gradients of the objective functions are not available or computationally prohibitive.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Feihu Huang , Shangqian Gao , Jian Pei , Heng Huang

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is widely used in solving structured convex optimization problems due to its superior practical performance. On the theoretical side however, a counterexample was shown in [7]…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

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

This paper aims to study a majorized alternating direction method of multipliers with indefinite proximal terms (iPADMM) for convex composite optimization problems. We show that the majorized iPADMM for 2-block convex optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Ning Zhang , Jia Wu , Liwei Zhang

The study of optimal control problems under uncertainty plays an important role in scientific numerical simulations. This class of optimization problems is strongly utilized in engineering, biology and finance. In this paper, a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Caroline Geiersbach , Teresa Scarinci

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

Over the fast few years, the numerical success of the generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (GADMM) proposed by Eckstein \& Bertsekas [Math. Prog., 1992] has inspired intensive attention in analyzing its theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Han Wang , Peili Li , Yunhai Xiao

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

This paper presents a numerical solver for computing continuous trajectories in non-convex environments. Our approach relies on a customized implementation of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) built upon two key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Lukas Pries , Jon Arrizabalaga , Zachary Manchester , Markus Ryll

We study a class of nonsmooth stochastic optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds. In this work, we propose MARS-ADMM, the first stochastic Riemannian alternating direction method of multipliers with provable near-optimal complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jiachen Jin , Kangkang Deng , Hongxia Wang

We study the combination of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for a general class of nonsmooth partial differential equation (PDE)-constrained optimization problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Yongcun Song , Xiaoming Yuan , Hangrui Yue

The multistage stochastic variational inequality is reformulated into a variational inequality with separable structure through introducing a new variable. The prediction-correction ADMM which was originally proposed in [B.-S. He, L.-Z.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Ze You , Haisen Zhang

This paper investigates solving convex composite optimization on an undirected network, where each node, privately endowed with a smooth component function and a nonsmooth one, is required to minimize the sum of all the component functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Xuyang Wu , Jie Lu

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

Support vector machines (SVMs) with sparsity-inducing nonconvex penalties have received considerable attentions for the characteristics of automatic classification and variable selection. However, it is quite challenging to solve the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-12 Lei Guan , Linbo Qiao , Dongsheng Li , Tao Sun , Keshi Ge , Xicheng Lu

This dissertation explores block decomposable methods for large-scale optimization problems. It focuses on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) schemes and block coordinate descent (BCD) methods. Specifically, it introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Leandro Farias Maia

The convergence analysis of optimization algorithms using continuous-time dynamical systems has received much attention in recent years. In this paper, we investigate applications of these systems to analyze the convergence of linearized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Jiahong Guo , Xiao Wang , Xiantao Xiao