scholarly journals Convergence Analysis of Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for a Class of Separable Convex Programming

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Zehui Jia ◽  
Ke Guo ◽  
Xingju Cai

The purpose of this paper is extending the convergence analysis of Han and Yuan (2012) for alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) from the strongly convex to a more general case. Under the assumption that the individual functions are composites of strongly convex functions and linear functions, we prove that the classical ADMM for separable convex programming with two blocks can be extended to the case with more than three blocks. The problems, although still very special, arise naturally from some important applications, for example, route-based traffic assignment problems.

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (03) ◽  
pp. 1550011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miantao Chao ◽  
Caozong Cheng ◽  
Haibin Zhang

We consider the linearly constrained separable convex programming problem whose objective function is separable into m individual convex functions with non-overlapping variables. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been well studied in the literature for the special case m = 2, but the direct extension of ADMM for the general case m ≥ 2 is not necessarily convergent. In this paper, we propose a new linearized ADMM-based contraction type algorithms for the general case m ≥ 2. For the proposed algorithm, we prove its convergence via the analytic framework of contractive type methods and we derive a worst-case O(1/t) convergence rate in ergodic sense. Finally, numerical results are reported to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.


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