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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.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Martin Benning , Florian Knoll , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Tuomo Valkonen

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 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

A common method to define a parallel solution for a computational problem consists in finding a way to use the Divide and Conquer paradigm in order to have processors acting on its own data and scheduled in a parallel fashion. MapReduce is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Edelmira Pasarella , Maria-Esther Vidal , Cristina Zoltan

This paper considers an optimization problem that components of the objective function are available at different nodes of a network and nodes are allowed to only exchange information with their neighbors. The decentralized alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Aryan Mokhtari , Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this paper, we introduce a unified framework for studying various cloud traffic management problems, ranging from geographical load balancing to backbone traffic engineering. We first abstract these real-world problems as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Chen Feng , Hong Xu , Baochun Li

We propose AD3, a new algorithm for approximate maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference on factor graphs based on the alternating directions method of multipliers. Like dual decomposition algorithms, AD3 uses worker nodes to iteratively solve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Andre F. T. Martins , Mario A. T. Figueiredo , Pedro M. Q. Aguiar , Noah A. Smith , Eric P. Xing

We consider a class of distributed optimization problem where the objective function consists of a sum of strongly convex and smooth functions and a (possibly nonsmooth) convex regularizer. A multi-agent network is assumed, where each agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Yichuan Li , Yonghai Gong , Nikolaos M. Freris , Petros Voulgaris , Dusan Stipanovic

The Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has been successfully applied to many graph-based applications. Training a large-scale GCN model, however, is still challenging: Due to the node dependency and layer dependency of the GCN architecture,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Hongyi Li , Junxiang Wang , Yongchao Wang , Yue Cheng , Liang Zhao

Inspired by the recent advances in deep learning (DL), this work presents a deep neural network aided decoding algorithm for binary linear codes. Based on the concept of deep unfolding, we design a decoding network by unfolding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yi Wei , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Ming Lei

We consider a 3-block Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for solving nonconvex nonseparable problems with a linear constraint. Inspired by \cite[Sun, Toh and Yang, \textit{SIAM Journal on Optimization}, 25 (2015),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Zekun Liu

In this paper, we analyze the convergence rate of the Jacobi-Proximal Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) initially introduced by Deng et al. for the block-structured optimization problem with linear constraint. The algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Hyelin Choi , Woocheol Choi

Trajectory optimization is becoming increasingly powerful in addressing motion planning problems of underactuated robotic systems. Numerous prior studies solve such a class of large non-convex optimal control problems in a hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Ziyi Zhou , Ye Zhao

Alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMMs) are popular approaches to handle large scale semidefinite programs that gained attention during the past decade. In this paper, we focus on solving doubly nonnegative programs (DNN),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Martina Cerulli , Marianna De Santis , Elisabeth Gaar , Angelika Wiegele

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

Pipeline parallelism is widely used to train large language models (LLMs). However, increasing heterogeneity in model architectures exacerbates pipeline bubbles, thereby reducing training efficiency. Existing approaches overlook the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jihu Guo , Tenghui Ma , Wei Gao , Peng Sun , Jiaxing Li , Xun Chen , Yuyang Jin , Dahua Lin

Collaborative transportation of heavy payloads via loco-manipulation is a challenging yet essential capability for legged robots operating in complex, unstructured environments. Centralized planning methods, e.g., holistic trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ziyi Zhou , Pengyuan Shu , Ruize Cao , Yuntian Zhao , Ye Zhao

In this paper we propose an iterative method using alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) strategy to solve linear inverse problems in Hilbert spaces with general convex penalty term. When the data is given exactly, we give a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Yuling Jiao , Qinian Jin , Xiliang Lu , Weijie Wang

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has found widespread use in solving separable convex optimization problems. In this paper, by employing Nesterov extrapolation technique, we propose two families of accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-13 X. He , N. J. Huang , Y. P. Fang

This paper addresses a multi-stage generation investment problem for a strategic (price-maker) power producer in electricity markets. This problem is exposed to different sources of uncertainty, including short-term operational (e.g.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Vladimir Dvorkin , Jalal Kazempour , Luis Baringo , Pierre Pinson