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In this paper, we propose an adaptive forward-backward-forward splitting algorithm for finding a zero of a pseudo-monotone operator which is split as a sum of three operators: the first is continuous single-valued, the second is…

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The Kaczmarz algorithm in Hilbert spaces is a classical iterative method for stably recovering vectors from inner product data. In this paper, we extend the algorithm to the setting of Hilbert $C^*$-modules and establish analogues of its…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Daniel Alpay , Chad Berner , Eric S. Weber

For initial value problems associated with operator-valued Riccati differential equations posed in the space of Hilbert--Schmidt operators existence of solutions is studied. An existence result known for algebraic Riccati equations is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Monika Eisenmann , Etienne Emmrich , Volker Mehrmann

In this paper, we are interested in investigating a weighted variant of Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities involving convex functionals. The approach undertaken makes it possible to refine and reverse certain inequalities already known in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Mustapha Raissouli , Mohamed Chergui , Lahcen Tarik

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a widely used method for solving many convex minimization models arising in signal and image processing. In this paper, we propose an inertial ADMM for solving a two-block separable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Yang Yang , Yuchao Tang

We introduce and analyze an algorithm for the minimization of convex functions that are the sum of differentiable terms and proximable terms composed with linear operators. The method builds upon the recently developed smoothed gap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Quang Van Nguyen , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

We conduct a study and comparison of superiorization and optimization approaches for the reconstruction problem of superiorized/regularized least-squares solutions of underdetermined linear equations with nonnegativity variable bounds.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Yair Censor , Stefania Petra , Christoph Schnörr

The averaged alternating modified reflections (AAMR) method is a projection algorithm for finding the closest point in the intersection of convex sets to any arbitrary point in a Hilbert space. This method can be seen as an adequate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Rubén Campoy

In this paper, we consider a class of structured nonconvex nonsmooth optimization problems whose objective function is the sum of three nonconvex functions, one of which is expressed in a difference-of-convex (DC) form. This problem class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Minh N. Dao , Tan Nhat Pham , Phan Thanh Tung

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

The split common fixed-point problem is an inverse problem that consists in finding an element in a fixed-point set such that its image under a bounded linear operator belongs to another fixed-point set. Recently Censor and Segal proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Huanhuan Cui , Fenghui Wang

This work is concerned with the convex analysis of functions defined on (not necessarily finite-dimensional) Hilbert spaces whose values depend solely on a certain ``spectrum'' of the arguments, a class we term ``spectral functions.'' We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Hòa T. Bùi , Minh N. Bùi , Christian Clason

We study the convergence of general abstract descent methods applied to a lower semicontinuous nonconvex function f that satisfies the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz inequality in a Hilbert space. We prove that any precompact sequence converges to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Pierre Frankel , Guillaume Garrigos , Juan Peypouquet

We study two procedures (reverse-mode and forward-mode) for computing the gradient of the validation error with respect to the hyperparameters of any iterative learning algorithm such as stochastic gradient descent. These procedures mirror…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-13 Luca Franceschi , Michele Donini , Paolo Frasconi , Massimiliano Pontil

Thanks to its versatility, its simplicity, and its fast convergence, ADMM is among the most widely used approaches for solving a convex problem in distributed form. However, making it running efficiently is an art that requires a fine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Tomaso Erseghe

A 3-D inverse medium problem in the frequency domain is considered. Another name for this problem is Coefficient Inverse Problem. The goal is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from scattering data. Potential…

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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

This paper considers the inversion of ill-posed linear operators. To regularise the problem the solution is enforced to lie in a non-convex subset. Theoretical properties for the stable inversion are derived and an iterative algorithm akin…

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The convergence of deterministic policy gradient under the Hadamard parameterization is studied in the tabular setting and the linear convergence of the algorithm is established. To this end, we first show that the error decreases at an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Jiacai Liu , Jinchi Chen , Ke Wei

The recently introduced backward Monte-Carlo method [Johan Carlsson, arXiv:math.NA/0010118] is validated, benchmarked, and compared to the conventional, forward Monte-Carlo method by analyzing the error in the Monte-Carlo solutions to a…

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