Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers Prof S. Boyd EE364b, Stanford University source: Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (Boyd, Parikh, Chu, Peleato, Eckstein) 1 Goals robust methods for ◮ arbitrary-scale optimization – machine learning/statistics with huge data-sets – dynamic optimization on large-scale network ◮ decentrali