Authors and Contributors¶

POGS is developed and maintained by researchers and developers worldwide.

Creator¶

Chris Fougner

Original author and maintainer
GitHub: @foges
Affiliation: Stanford University (Ph.D. 2016)
Research: Convex optimization, ADMM, distributed algorithms

Academic Advisor¶

Stephen Boyd

Ph.D. advisor
Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering
Website: https://stanford.edu/~boyd/
Research: Convex optimization, control theory

Contributors¶

POGS has benefited from contributions by:

Community bug reports and feature requests
Testing on various platforms
Documentation improvements
Example contributions

Want to contribute? See the Contributing Guide.

Acknowledgments¶

Research Support¶

Stanford University
National Science Foundation (NSF)

Software Dependencies¶

BLAS/LAPACK communities
OpenBLAS developers
NVIDIA CUDA team
CMake project

Modernization (2026)¶

Claude (Anthropic) assisted with C++20 modernization and documentation

Citation¶

If you use POGS in your research, please cite:

@article{fougner2016pogs,
  title={Parameter selection and preconditioning for a graph form solver},
  author={Fougner, Chris and Boyd, Stephen},
  journal={Optimization and Engineering},
  year={2016},
  publisher={Springer}
}

POGS builds upon research in:

ADMM: Boyd et al., "Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning via ADMM" (2011)
Proximal operators: Parikh and Boyd, "Proximal Algorithms" (2014)
Graph form: Zheng et al., "Fast Optimization Algorithms on Graphs" (2015)

Community¶

GitHub: foges/pogs
Issues: Report bugs and request features
Discussions: GitHub Discussions (coming soon)

License¶

POGS is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

See License for details.