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In this paper, we study convex analysis and its theoretical applications. We first apply important tools of convex analysis to Optimization and to Analysis. We then show various deep applications of convex analysis and especially infimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Jonathan M. Borwein , Victoria Martín-Márquez , Liangjin Yao

The proximal point algorithm is a widely used tool for solving a variety of convex optimization problems such as finding zeros of maximally monotone operators, fixed points of nonexpansive mappings, as well as minimizing convex functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Laurentiu Leustean , Adriana Nicolae , Andrei Sipos

Using the theory of Hilbert direct integrals, we introduce and study a monotonicity-preserving operation, termed the integral resolvent mixture. It combines arbitrary families of monotone operators acting on different spaces and linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Minh N. Bùi , Patrick L. Combettes

Proximal splitting-based convex optimization is a promising approach to linear inverse problems because we can use some prior knowledge of the unknown variables explicitly. An understanding of the behavior of the optimization algorithms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Ryo Hayakawa

We present a distributed solution to optimizing a convex function composed of several non-convex functions. Each non-convex function is privately stored with an agent while the agents communicate with neighbors to form a network. We show…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

We investigate the techniques and ideas used in the convergence analysis of two proximal ADMM algorithms for solving convex optimization problems involving compositions with linear operators. Besides this, we formulate a variant of the ADMM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Sebastian Banert , Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

This paper proposes a two-point inertial proximal point algorithm to find zero of maximal monotone operators in Hilbert spaces. We obtain weak convergence results and non-asymptotic $O(1/n)$ convergence rate of our proposed algorithm in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Olaniyi S. Iyiola , Yekini Shehu

We obtain estimates in simultaneous approximation for a summation-integral type genuine hybrid operator. The convergence of derivatives of operator to the corresponding derivatives of the functions is proved and estimates for rate of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Asha Ram Gairola , Nidhi Bisht

In this work, a connection between some spectral properties of direct sum of operators in the direct sum of Hilbert spaces and its coordinate operators has been investigated.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-24 E. Otkun Cevik , Z. I. Ismailov

A perspective function is a construction which combines a base function defined on a given space with a nonlinear scaling function defined on another space and which yields a lower semicontinuous convex function on the product space. Since…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Luis M. Briceño-Arias , Patrick L. Combettes , Francisco J. Silva

We present two approximate versions of the proximal subgradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions (not necessarily differentiable). The algorithms involve, at each iteration, inexact evaluations of the proximal operator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Reinier Díaz Millán , Majela Pentón Machado

A wide array of image recovery problems can be abstracted into the problem of minimizing a sum of composite convex functions in a Hilbert space. To solve such problems, primal-dual proximal approaches have been developed which provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Patrick L. Combettes , Laurent Condat , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Bang Cong Vu

Convex approximation sets for multiobjective optimization problems are a well-studied relaxation of the common notion of approximation sets. Instead of approximating each image of a feasible solution by the image of some solution in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Stephan Helfrich , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen

We develop a globalized Proximal Newton method for composite and possibly non-convex minimization problems in Hilbert spaces. Additionally, we impose less restrictive assumptions on the composite objective functional considering…

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Perspective functions arise explicitly or implicitly in various forms in applied mathematics and in statistical data analysis. To date, no systematic strategy is available to solve the associated, typically nonsmooth, optimization problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Patrick L. Combettes , Christian L. Müller

In this paper we combine two existing approaches for approximating attractors. One of them approximates the attractors arbitrarily well by sublevel sets related to solutions of infinite dimensional linear programming problems. A downside…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Corbinian Schlosser

We consider the problem of minimizing a sum of clipped convex functions; applications include clipped empirical risk minimization and clipped control. While the problem of minimizing the sum of clipped convex functions is NP-hard, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Shane Barratt , Guillermo Angeris , Stephen Boyd

In this note we provide a full conjugacy and subdifferential calculus for convex convex-composite functions in finite-dimensional space. Our approach, based on infimal convolution and cone-convexity, is straightforward and yields the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 James V. Burke , Tim Hoheisel , Quang V. Nguyen

We study the proximity operator of the nonconvex, scale-invariant ratio $h(\vx)=\|\vx\|_{1}/\|\vx\|_{2}$ and show it can be computed exactly in any dimension. By expressing $\vx=r\vu$ and exploiting sign and permutation invariance, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Lixin Shen , Guohui Song

We propose a variable metric framework for minimizing the sum of a self-concordant function and a possibly non-smooth convex function, endowed with an easily computable proximal operator. We theoretically establish the convergence of our…

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