A Unified Algorithmic Framework of Symmetric Gauss-Seidel Decomposition Based Proximal ADMMs for Convex Composite Programming

A Unified Algorithmic Framework of Symmetric Gauss-Seidel Decomposition Based Proximal ADMMs for Convex Composite Programming

Year:    2019

Author:    Liang Chen, Defeng Sun, Kim-Chuan Toh, Ning Zhang

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 37 (2019), Iss. 6 : pp. 739–757

Abstract

This paper aims to present a fairly accessible generalization of several symmetric Gauss-Seidel decomposition based multi-block proximal alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMMs) for convex composite optimization problems. The proposed method unifies and refines many constructive techniques that were separately developed for the computational efficiency of multi-block ADMM-type algorithms. Specifically, the majorized augmented Lagrangian functions, the indefinite proximal terms, the inexact symmetric Gauss-Seidel decomposition theorem, the tolerance criteria of approximately solving the subproblems, and the large dual step-lengths, are all incorporated in one algorithmic framework, which we named as sGS-imiPADMM. From the popularity of convergent variants of multi-block ADMMs in recent years, especially for high-dimensional multi-block convex composite conic programming problems, the unification presented in this paper, as well as the corresponding convergence results, may have the great potential of facilitating the implementation of many multi-block ADMMs in various problem settings.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1803-m2018-0278

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 37 (2019), Iss. 6 : pp. 739–757

Published online:    2019-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    19

Keywords:    Convex optimization Multi-block Alternating direction method of multipliers Symmetric Gauss-Seidel decomposition Majorization.

Author Details

Liang Chen

Defeng Sun

Kim-Chuan Toh

Ning Zhang