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In this paper, we propose a stochastic forward-backward-forward splitting algorithm and prove its almost sure weak convergence in real separable Hilbert spaces. Applications to composite monotone inclusion and minimization problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Bang Cong Vũ

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex objective which is the sum of a smooth part, with Lipschitz continuous gradient, and a nonsmooth part. Inspired by various applications, we focus on the case when the nonsmooth part is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-28 Ting Kei Pong

A recent innovation in projective splitting algorithms for monotone operator inclusions has been the development of a procedure using two forward steps instead of the customary proximal steps for operators that are Lipschitz continuous.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Patrick R. Johnstone , Jonathan Eckstein

Our work considers the optimization of the sum of a non-smooth convex function and a finite family of composite convex functions, each one of which is composed of a convex function and a bounded linear operator. This type of problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Yu-Chao Tang , Chuan-Xi Zhu , Meng Wen , Ji-Gen Peng

The forward-backward splitting technique is a popular method for solving monotone inclusions that has applications in optimization. In this paper we explore the behaviour of the algorithm when the inclusion problem has no solution. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Walaa M. Moursi

The difference-of-convex (DC) program is an important model in nonconvex optimization due to its structure, which encompasses a wide range of practical applications. In this paper, we aim to tackle a generalized class of DC programs, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Tan Nhat Pham , Minh N. Dao , Nima Amjady , Rakibuzzaman Shah

This paper addresses the minimization of a finite sum of prox-convex functions under Lipschitz continuity of each component. We propose two variants of the splitting proximal point algorithms proposed in \cite{Bacak,Bertsekas}: one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jose de Brito , Felipe Lara , Tran Van Thang

We propose a forward-backward splitting algorithm based on Bregman distances for composite minimization problems in general reflexive Banach spaces. The convergence is established using the notion of variable quasi-Bregman monotone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Quang Van Nguyen

We propose and analyze the convergence of a novel stochastic forward-backward splitting algorithm for solving monotone inclusions given by the sum of a maximal monotone operator and a single-valued maximal monotone cocoercive operator. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa , Bang Công Vũ

We study a forward backward splitting algorithm that solves the variational inequality \begin{equation*} A x +\nabla \Phi(x)+ N_C (x) \ni 0 \end{equation*} where $H$ is a real Hilbert space, $A: H\rightrightarrows H$ is a maximal monotone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-06 Marc-Olivier Czarnecki , Nahla Noun , Juan Peypouquet

Composite function minimization captures a wide spectrum of applications in both computer vision and machine learning. It includes bound constrained optimization and cardinality regularized optimization as special cases. This paper proposes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Ganzhao Yuan , Wei-Shi Zheng , Bernard Ghanem

The backward-backward algorithm is a tool for finding minima of a regularization of the sum of two convex functions in Hilbert spaces. We generalize this setting to Hadamard spaces and prove the convergence of an error-tolerant version of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Sebastian Banert

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of two convex functions: one is the average of a large number of smooth component functions, and the other is a general convex function that admits a simple proximal mapping. We assume the whole…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Lin Xiao , Tong Zhang

We investigate two inertial forward-backward algorithms in connection with the minimization of the sum of a non-smooth and possibly non-convex and a non-convex differentiable function. The algorithms are formulated in the spirit of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Szilárd Csaba László

In this paper, we propose a reflected forward-backward splitting algorithic framework for finding a zero of the sum of finitely many monotone op-erators, including maximally monotone operators, cocoercive operators, and monotone and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Haowen Zheng , Yongyu Fu , Qiao-Li Dong , Shuangbao Li

In this paper, by using tools of second-order variational analysis, we study the popular forward-backward splitting method with Beck-Teboulle's line-search for solving convex optimization problem where the objective function can be split…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Yunier Bello-Cruz , G. Li , T. T. A. Nghia

We provide a comprehensive study of the convergence of the forward-backward algorithm under suitable geometric conditions, such as conditioning or {\L}ojasiewicz properties. These geometrical notions are usually local by nature, and may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Guillaume Garrigos , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of three convex functions: i) a smooth function $f$ in the form of an expectation or a finite average, ii) a non-smooth function $g$ in the form of a finite average of proximable functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Konstantin Mishchenko , Peter Richtárik

In this paper we propose a distributed version of a randomized block-coordinate descent method for minimizing the sum of a partially separable smooth convex function and a fully separable non-smooth convex function. Under the assumption of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Ion Necoara , Dragos Clipici

The forward-backward splitting method (FBS) for minimizing a nonsmooth composite function can be interpreted as a (variable-metric) gradient method over a continuously differentiable function which we call forward-backward envelope (FBE).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Lorenzo Stella , Andreas Themelis , Panagiotis Patrinos