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A look at the convergence of the augmented  Lagrange method for nondifferentiable convex programming from  the view of a gradient method with constant stepsize

TIAN Zhaowei1  ZHANG Liwei1,*   

  1. 1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, Fujian, China
  • Received:2016-05-11 Online:2017-03-15 Published:2017-03-15

Abstract:

The augmented Lagrange method is an effective method for solving nonlinear optimization problems. This paper, from a new pointview, studies the convergence of the augmented Lagrange method for the nonlinear nonsmooth convex programming problem with inequality constraints. The convergence of the gradient method with constant stepsize for the dual problem, based on the augmented Lagrange function, is demonstrated by using a convergence theorem of a gradient method with constant stepsize, from which the global convergence of the multiplier iteration of augmented Lagrange method is obtained.

Key words: gradient method, Moreau envelope, augmented Lagrangian dual, global convergence