Explicit Convergence Rate of a Distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

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Abstract: Consider a set of N agents seeking to solve distributively the minimization problem infxsumn=1Nfn(x) where the convex functions fn are local to the agents. The popular Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers has the potential to handle distributed optimization problems of this kind. We provide a general reformulation of the problem and obtain a class of distributed algorithms which encompass various network architectures. The rate of convergence of our method is considered. It is assumed that the infimum of the problem is reached at a point xstar, the functions fn are twice differentiable at this point and sumabla2fn(xstar)>0 in the positive definite ordering of symmetric matrices. With these assumptions, it is shown that the convergence to the consensus xstar is linear and the exact rate is provided. Application examples where this rate can be optimized with respect to the ADMM free parameter ho are also given.










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