A convergent 3-block semiproximal alternating direction method of multipliers for conic programming with 4-type constraints

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DOI10.1137/140964357zbMATH Open1328.90083arXiv1404.5378OpenAlexW1982831910MaRDI QIDQ5254992FDOQ5254992


Authors: Defeng Sun, Kim-Chuan Toh, Liuqin Yang Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 11 June 2015

Published in: SIAM Journal on Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to design an efficient and convergent alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for finding a solution of medium accuracy to conic programming problems whose constraints consist of linear equalities, linear inequalities, a non-polyhedral cone and a polyhedral cone. For this class of problems, one may apply the directly extended ADMM to their dual, which can be written in the form of convex programming with four separable blocks in the objective function and a coupling linear equation constraint. Indeed, the directly extended ADMM, though may diverge in theory, often performs much better numerically than many of its variants with theoretical convergence guarantee. Ideally, one should find a convergent variant which is at least as efficient as the directly extended ADMM in practice. We achieve this goal by designing a convergent semi-proximal ADMM (called sPADMM3c for convenience) for convex programming problems having three separable blocks in the objective function with the third part being linear. At each iteration, the proposed sPADMM3c takes one special block coordinate descent (BCD) cycle with the order 1ightarrow3ightarrow2ightarrow3, instead of the usual 1ightarrow2ightarrow3 Gauss-Seidel BCD cycle used in the non-convergent directly extended 3-block ADMM, for updating the variable blocks. Our extensive numerical tests on the important class of doubly non-negative semidefinite programming (SDP) problems with linear equality and/or inequality constraints demonstrate that our convergent method is at least 20% faster than the directly extended ADMM with unit step-length for the vast majority of about 550 large scale problems tested.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5378




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