An Exact Penalty Method for Stochastic Equality-Constrained Optimization

In this paper, we study a penalty method for stochastic equality-constrained optimization, where both the objective and constraints are expressed in general expectation form. We introduce a novel adaptive strategy for updating the penalty parameter, guided by iteration progress to balance reductions in the penalty function with improvements in constraint violation, while each penalty subproblem … Read more

Continuous-time Analysis of a Stochastic ADMM Method for Nonconvex Composite Optimization

In this paper, we focus on nonconvex composite optimization, whose objective is the sum of a smooth but possibly nonconvex function and a composition of a weakly convex function coupled with a linear operator. By leveraging a smoothing technique based on Moreau envelope, we propose a stochastic proximal linearized ADMM algorithm (SPLA). To understand its … Read more

An adaptive single-loop stochastic penalty method for nonconvex constrained stochastic optimization

Adaptive update schemes for penalty parameters are crucial to enhancing robustness and practical applicability of penalty methods for constrained optimization. However, in the context of general constrained stochastic optimization, additional challenges arise due to the randomness introduced by adaptive penalty parameters. To address these challenges, we propose an Adaptive Single-loop Stochastic Penalty method (AdaSSP) in … Read more