Iteration complexity analysis of multi-block ADMM for a family of convex minimization without strong convexity

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Abstract: The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is widely used in solving structured convex optimization problems due to its superior practical performance. On the theoretical side however, a counterexample was shown in [7] indicating that the multi-block ADMM for minimizing the sum of N (Ngeq3) convex functions with N block variables linked by linear constraints may diverge. It is therefore of great interest to investigate further sufficient conditions on the input side which can guarantee convergence for the multi-block ADMM. The existing results typically require the strong convexity on parts of the objective. In this paper, we present convergence and convergence rate results for the multi-block ADMM applied to solve certain N-block (Ngeq3) convex minimization problems without requiring strong convexity. Specifically, we prove the following two results: (1) the multi-block ADMM returns an epsilon-optimal solution within O(1/epsilon2) iterations by solving an associated perturbation to the original problem; (2) the multi-block ADMM returns an epsilon-optimal solution within O(1/epsilon) iterations when it is applied to solve a certain sharing problem, under the condition that the augmented Lagrangian function satisfies the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz property, which essentially covers most convex optimization models except for some pathological cases.



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