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In this work, we aim to establish the exact worst-case convergence rates of Douglas--Rachford splitting (DRS) and Davis--Yin splitting (DYS) when applied to convex optimization problems. Both DRS and DYS have two variants as swapping the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Edward Duc Hien Nguyen , Jaewook J. Suh , Xin Jiang , Shiqian Ma

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

We consider the application of the Douglas-Rachford (DR) algorithm to solve linear-quadratic (LQ) control problems with box constraints on the state and control variables. We split the constraints of the optimal control problem into two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Regina S. Burachik , Bethany I. Caldwell , C. Yalçın Kaya

More than 40 years ago, Lions and Mercier introduced in a seminal paper the Douglas-Rachford algorithm. Today, this method is well recognized as a classical and highly successful splitting method to find minimizers of the sum of two (not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Heinz H. Bauschke , Walaa M. Moursi

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 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

The basic optimization problem of road design is quite challenging due to a objective function that is the sum of nonsmooth functions and the presence of set constraints. In this paper, we model and solve this problem by employing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Heinz H. Bauschke , Valentin R. Koch , Hung M. Phan

We revisit the classical Douglas-Rachford (DR) method for finding a zero of the sum of two maximal monotone operators. Since the practical performance of the DR method crucially depends on the stepsizes, we aim at developing an adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Dirk A. Lorenz , Quoc Tran-Dinh

We address the solution of time-varying optimization problems characterized by the sum of a time-varying strongly convex function and a time-invariant nonsmooth convex function. We design an online algorithmic framework based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Andrea Simonetto , Ruggero Carli

The split feasibility problem is to find an element in the intersection of a closed set $C$ and the linear preimage of another closed set $D$, assuming the projections onto $C$ and $D$ are easy to compute. This class of problems arises…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-05 Chen Chen , Ting Kei Pong , Lulin Tan , Liaoyuan Zeng

In this paper we present two Douglas-Rachford inspired iteration schemes which can be applied directly to N-set convex feasibility problems in Hilbert space. Our main results are weak convergence of the methods to a point whose nearest…

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

The Douglas-Rachford algorithm is widely used in sparse signal processing for minimizing a sum of two convex functions. In this paper, we consider the case where one of the functions is weakly convex but the other is strongly convex so that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-13 İlker Bayram , Ivan W. Selesnick

Sparsity regularization has been largely applied in many fields, such as signal and image processing and machine learning. In this paper, we mainly consider nonconvex minimization problems involving three terms, for the applications such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Fengmiao Bian , Xiaoqun Zhang

In this paper, we consider nonconvex decentralised optimisation and learning over a network of distributed agents. We develop an ADMM algorithm based on the Randomised Block Coordinate Douglas-Rachford splitting method which enables agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Behnam Mafakheri , Jonathan H. Manton , Iman Shames

Splitting schemes are a class of powerful algorithms that solve complicated monotone inclusion and convex optimization problems that are built from many simpler pieces. They give rise to algorithms in which the simple pieces of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-04 Damek Davis , Wotao Yin

The Douglas--Rachford method is a splitting method frequently employed for finding zeroes of sums of maximally monotone operators. When the operators in question are normal cones operators, the iterated process may be used to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Scott B. Lindstrom , Brailey Sims

We are interested in restoring images having values in a symmetric Hadamard manifold by minimizing a functional with a quadratic data term and a total variation like regularizing term. To solve the convex minimization problem, we extend the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Ronny Bergmann , Johannes Persch , Gabriele Steidl

This paper considers constrained linear dynamic games with quadratic objective functions, which can be cast as affine variational inequalities. By leveraging the problem structure, we apply the Douglas-Rachford splitting, which generates a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani , Emilio Benenati , Sergio Grammatico

In this paper, we present a Douglas-Rachford splitting algorithm within a Hilbert space framework that yields a projected solution for a quasi-variational inequality. This is achieved under the conditions that the operator associated with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Maede Ramazannejad

This paper presents an algorithmic study and complexity analysis for solving distributionally robust multistage convex optimization (DR-MCO). We generalize the usual consecutive dual dynamic programming (DDP) algorithm to DR-MCO and propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Shixuan Zhang , Xu Andy Sun