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The Douglas-Rachford splitting method is a classical and widely used algorithm for solving monotone inclusions involving the sum of two maximally monotone operators. It was recently shown to be the unique frugal, no-lifting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Max Nilsson , Anton Åkerman , Pontus Giselsson

Motivated by nonconvex, inconsistent feasibility problems in imaging, the relaxed alternating averaged reflections algorithm, or relaxed Douglas-Rachford algorithm (DR$\lambda$), was first proposed over a decade ago. Convergence results for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-26 D. Russell Luke , Anna-Lena Martins

In this paper we give general recommendations for successful application of the Douglas-Rachford reflection method to convex and non-convex real matrix-completion problems. These guidelines are demonstrated by various illustrative examples.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-30 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Jonathan M. Borwein , Matthew K. Tam

The Douglas--Rachford algorithm is a classical and very successful splitting method for finding the zeros of the sums of monotone operators. When the underlying operators are normal cone operators, the algorithm solves a convex feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Heinz H. Bauschke , Walaa M. Moursi

In order to accelerate the Douglas--Rachford method we recently developed the circumcentered--reflection method, which provides the closest iterate to the solution among all points relying on successive reflections, for the best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Roger Behling , José Yunier Bello-Cruz , Luiz-Rafael Santos

We analyse the behaviour of the newly introduced cyclic Douglas-Rachford algorithm for finding a point in the intersection of a finite number of closed convex sets. This work considers the case in which the target intersection set is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Jonathan M. Borwein , Matthew K. Tam

The Douglas-Rachford algorithm is a classical and powerful splitting method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions and, more generally, finding a zero of the sum of two maximally monotone operators. Although this algorithm is well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Minh N. Dao , Hung M. Phan

While global convergence of the Douglas-Rachford iteration is often observed in applications, proving it is still limited to convex and a handful of other special cases. Lyapunov functions for difference inclusions provide not only global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Ohad Giladi , Björn S. Rüffer

This work is concerned with the convergence rate analysis of the Douglas-Rachford splitting (DRS) method for finding a zero of the sum of two maximally monotone operators. We obtain an exact rate of convergence for the DRS algorithm and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Moslem Zamani

We provide new insight into the convergence properties of the Douglas-Rachford algorithm for the problem $\min_x \{f(x)+g(x)\}$, where $f$ and $g$ are convex functions. Our approach relies on and highlights the natural primal-dual symmetry…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Javier Peña , Juan C. Vera , Luis F. Zuluaga

We study acceleration and preconditioning strategies for a class of Douglas-Rachford methods aiming at the solution of convex-concave saddle-point problems associated with Fenchel-Rockafellar duality. While the basic iteration converges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Kristian Bredies , Hongpeng Sun

Using the construction of a Lyapunov function, it is shown that the Douglas-Rachford iteration with respect to a sphere and a line in $\mathbb R^d$ is robustly $\mathcal{KL}$-stable. This implies a convergence which is stronger than uniform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Ohad Giladi

In this article, we propose and study a stochastic and relaxed preconditioned Douglas--Rachford splitting method to solve saddle-point problems that have separable dual variables. We prove the almost sure convergence of the iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Yakun Dong , Kristian Bredies , Hongpeng Sun

We analyze the Douglas-Rachford splitting method for weakly convex optimization problems, by the token of the Douglas-Rachford envelope, a merit function akin to the Moreau envelope. First, we use epi-convergence techniques to show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Felipe Atenas

The Douglas-Rachford method is a popular splitting technique for finding a zero of the sum of two subdifferential operators of proper closed convex functions; more generally two maximally monotone operators. Recent results concerned with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Walaa M. Moursi , Lieven Vandenberghe

The Douglas-Rachford algorithm is a very popular splitting technique for finding a zero of the sum of two maximally monotone operators. However, the behaviour of the algorithm remains mysterious in the general inconsistent case, i.e., when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Heinz H. Bauschke , Walaa M. Moursi

Over the past years, operator splitting methods have become ubiquitous for non-smooth optimization owing to their simplicity and efficiency. In this paper, we consider the Forward--Douglas--Rachford splitting method (FDR) [10,40], and study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Cesare Molinari , Jingwei Liang , Jalal Fadili

The Douglas-Rachford (DR) algorithm is an iterative procedure that uses sequential reflections onto convex sets and which has become popular for convex feasibility problems. In this paper we propose a structural generalization that allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Yair Censor , Aviv Gibali

Our interest lies in developing some efficient methods for minimizing the sum of two geodesically convex functions on Hadamard manifolds, with the aim to enhance the convergence of the Douglas-Rachford algorithm in Hadamard manifolds.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 D. R. Sahu , Shikher Sharma , Pankaj Gautam

The primal-dual Douglas-Rachford method is a well-known algorithm to solve optimization problems written as convex-concave saddle-point problems. Each iteration involves solving a linear system involving a linear operator and its adjoint.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Emanuele Naldi , Felix Schneppe