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Many iterative methods for solving optimization or feasibility problems have been invented, and often convergence of the iterates to some solution is proven. Under favourable conditions, one might have additional bounds on the distance of…
The Douglas-Rachford and Peaceman-Rachford algorithms have been successfully employed to solve convex optimization problems, or more generally find zeros of monotone inclusions. Recently, the behaviour of these methods in the inconsistent…
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.…
The Douglas-Rachford method has been employed successfully to solve many kinds of non-convex feasibility problems. In particular, recent research has shown surprising stability for the method when it is applied to finding the intersections…
The elementary Euclidean concept of circumcenter has recently been employed to improve two aspects of the classical Douglas--Rachford method for projecting onto the intersection of affine subspaces. The so-called circumcentered-reflection…
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…
We explore the relationship between the dual of a weighted minimum-energy control problem, a special case of linear-quadratic optimal control problems, and the Douglas-Rachford (DR) algorithm. We obtain an expression for the fixed point of…
Douglas-Rachford splitting and its equivalent dual formulation ADMM are widely used iterative methods in composite optimization problems arising in control and machine learning applications. The performance of these algorithms depends on…
It is shown that away from the origin, the Douglas-Rachford operator with respect to a sphere and a convex set in a Hilbert space can be approximated by a another operator which satisfies a weak ergodic theorem. Similar results for other…
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.…
In this work, we propose some new Douglas-Rashford splitting algorithms for solving a class of generalized DC (difference of convex functions) in real Hilbert spaces. The proposed methods leverage the proximal properties of the nonsmooth…
For many problems, some of which are reviewed in the paper, popular algorithms like Douglas--Rachford (DR), ADMM, and FISTA produce approximating sequences that show signs of spiraling toward the solution. We present a meta-algorithm that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Douglas-Rachford method is a splitting algorithm for finding a zero of the sum of two maximal monotone operators. Each of its iterations requires the sequential solution of two proximal subproblems. The aim of this work is to present a…
Douglas-Rachford method is a splitting algorithm for finding a zero of the sum of two maximal monotone operators. Weak convergence in this method to a solution of the underlying monotone inclusion problem in the general case remained an…
We show that the weak convergence of the Douglas--Rachford algorithm for finding a zero of the sum of two maximally monotone operators cannot be improved to strong convergence. Likewise, we show that strong convergence can fail for the…
We study decentralized smooth optimization problems over compact submanifolds. Recasting it as a composite optimization problem, we propose a decentralized Douglas-Rachford splitting algorithm, DDRS. When the proximal operator of the local…