Primal recovery from consensus-based dual decomposition for distributed convex optimization

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DOI10.1007/S10957-015-0758-0zbMATH Open1332.90203arXiv1503.07678OpenAlexW1540376964MaRDI QIDQ255083FDOQ255083

Hadi Jamali-Rad, Andrea Simonetto

Publication date: 9 March 2016

Published in: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Dual decomposition has been successfully employed in a variety of distributed convex optimization problems solved by a network of computing and communicating nodes. Often, when the cost function is separable but the constraints are coupled, the dual decomposition scheme involves local parallel subgradient calculations and a global subgradient update performed by a master node. In this paper, we propose a consensus-based dual decomposition to remove the need for such a master node and still enable the computing nodes to generate an approximate dual solution for the underlying convex optimization problem. In addition, we provide a primal recovery mechanism to allow the nodes to have access to approximate near-optimal primal solutions. Our scheme is based on a constant stepsize choice and the dual and primal objective convergence are achieved up to a bounded error floor dependent on the stepsize and on the number of consensus steps among the nodes.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07678




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