English

Finding the forward-Douglas-Rachford-forward method

Optimization and Control 2019-10-17 v2

Abstract

We consider the monotone inclusion problem with a sum of 3 operators, in which 2 are monotone and 1 is monotone-Lipschitz. The classical Douglas--Rachford and Forward-backward-forward methods respectively solve the monotone inclusion problem with a sum of 2 monotone operators and a sum of 1 monotone and 1 monotone-Lipschitz operators. We first present a method that naturally combines Douglas--Rachford and Forward-backward-forward and show that it solves the 3 operator problem under further assumptions, but fails in general. We then present a method that naturally combines Douglas--Rachford and forward-reflected-backward, a recently proposed alternative to Forward-backward-forward by Malitsky and Tam [arXiv:1808.04162, 2018]. We show that this second method solves the 3 operator problem generally, without further assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.1909.09747,
  title  = {Finding the forward-Douglas-Rachford-forward method},
  author = {Ernest K. Ryu and Bang Cong Vu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.09747},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

To appear in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

R2 v1 2026-06-23T11:21:58.129Z