Adaptive ADMM with Spectral Penalty Parameter Selection
Xu, Z.
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Figueiredo, M. A. T.
; Goldstein, T.
Adaptive ADMM with Spectral Penalty Parameter Selection, Proc International Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics - AISTATS, Fort Lauderdale, United States, Vol. N/A, pp. - - -, April, 2017.
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Abstract
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a versatile tool for solving a wide range of constrained optimization problems. However, its performance is highly sensitive to a penalty parameter, making ADMM often unreliable and hard to automate for a non-expert user. We tackle this weakness of ADMM by proposing a method that adaptively tunes the penalty parameter to achieve fast convergence. The resulting adaptive ADMM (AADMM) algorithm, inspired by the successful Barzilai-Borwein spectral method for gradient descent, yields fast convergence and relative insensitivity to the initial stepsize and problem scaling.