Abstract
The mirror descent algorithm (MDA) generalizes gradient descent by using a Bregman divergence to replace squared Euclidean distance. In this paper, we similarly generalize the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to Bregman ADMM (BADMM), which allows the choice of different Bregman divergences to exploit the structure of problems. BADMM provides a unified framework for ADMM and its variants, including generalized ADMM, inexact ADMM and Bethe ADMM. We establish the global convergence and the O(1/T) iteration complexity for BADMM. In some cases, BADMM can be faster than ADMM by a factor of O(n/ln n) where n is the dimensionality. In solving the linear program of mass transportation problem, BADMM leads to massive parallelism and can easily run on GPU. BADMM is several times faster than highly optimized commercial software Gurobi.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2816-2824 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | January |
| State | Published - 2014 |
| Event | 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2014, NIPS 2014 - Montreal, Canada Duration: Dec 8 2014 → Dec 13 2014 |