Title
Alternating Proximal Gradient Method for Convex Minimization
Abstract
Abstract In this paper, we apply the idea of alternating proximal gradient to solve separable convex minimization problems with three or more blocks of variables linked by some linear constraints. The method proposed in this paper is to firstly group the variables into two blocks, and then apply a proximal gradient based inexact alternating direction method of multipliers to solve the new formulation. The main computational effort in each iteration of the proposed method is to compute the proximal mappings of the involved convex functions. The global convergence result of the proposed method is established. We show that many interesting problems arising from machine learning, statistics, medical imaging and computer vision can be solved by the proposed method. Numerical results on problems such as latent variable graphical model selection, stable principal component pursuit and compressive principal component pursuit are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s10915-015-0150-0
Journal of Scientific Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Alternating direction method of multipliers,Proximal gradient method,Global convergence,Sparse and low-rank optimization,65K05,90C25,49M27
Gradient method,Convergence (routing),Mathematical optimization,Mathematical analysis,Proximal Gradient Methods,Latent variable,Convex function,Proximal gradient methods for learning,Graphical model,Convex optimization,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
68
2
1573-7691
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.58
27
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shiqian Ma1106863.48