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+## ADMM
+This repository contains code that implements ADMM in Python 3 (alternating direction method of multipliers), AMA (alternating minimization algorithm), and their faster variants as outlined in the paper "Fast Alternating Direction Optimization Methods" (Goldstein et. al, 2014)
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+There is a report attached that contains several theoretical proofs, simulation results, and analysis of the algorithm by taking inspiration from the paper above. It also discusses other related ideas.
+This work was done as part of the course "Convex Optimization" at IIT Kanpur.
+
+```
+Goldstein, Tom, Brendan O'Donoghue, Simon Setzer, and Richard Baraniuk. 
+"Fast alternating direction optimization methods." 
+SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences 7, no. 3 (2014): 1588-1623.
+```