On the Global Linear Convergence of the ADMM with MultiBlock Variables

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Abstract: The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been widely used for solving structured convex optimization problems. In particular, the ADMM can solve convex programs that minimize the sum of N convex functions with N-block variables linked by some linear constraints. While the convergence of the ADMM for N=2 was well established in the literature, it remained an open problem for a long time whether or not the ADMM for Nge3 is still convergent. Recently, it was shown in [3] that without further conditions the ADMM for Nge3 may actually fail to converge. In this paper, we show that under some easily verifiable and reasonable conditions the global linear convergence of the ADMM when Ngeq3 can still be assured, which is important since the ADMM is a popular method for solving large scale multi-block optimization models and is known to perform very well in practice even when Nge3. Our study aims to offer an explanation for this phenomenon.



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