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This paper develops a geometric framework for the stability analysis of differential inclusions governed by maximally monotone operators. A key structural decomposition expresses the operator as the sum of a convexified limit mapping and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Hassan Saoud , Michel Théra , Minh N. Dao

The Douglas-Rachford algorithm is a popular method for finding zeros of sums of monotone operators. By its definition, the Douglas-Rachford operator is not symmetric with respect to the order of the two operators. In this paper we provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Heinz H. Bauschke , Walaa M. Moursi

We study the optimization of (strongly) quasar-convex functions, a class that arises naturally in many machine learning and data science applications due to its favorable properties. The fundamental properties of this class are first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Masoud Ahookhosh , Jose M. M. de Brito , Alireza Kabgani , Felipe Lara , Jinyun Yuan

We study the convergence analysis of continuous-time dynamical systems associated with optimization methods for strongly convex functions. Recent works have proposed systematic constructions of Lyapunov functions for such analysis, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Atsushi Tabei , Ken'ichiro Tanaka

This paper studies the continuous-time dynamics of primal-dual algorithms for linearly constrained convex optimization problems and provides a quantitative convergence analysis using the Lyapunov functions. With the growing prevalence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chise Ishii , Yasushi Narushima

In many iterative optimization methods, fixed-point theory enables the analysis of the convergence rate via the contraction factor associated with the linear approximation of the fixed-point operator. While this factor characterizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Trung Vu , Raviv Raich

In two recent papers we introduced some new techniques for constructing an extension of a probability-preserving system $T:\mathbb{Z}^d\curvearrowright (X,\mu)$ that enjoys certain desirable properties in connexion with the asymptotic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Tim Austin

Iterative algorithms are fundamental tools for approximating fixed-points of nonexpansive operators in real Hilbert spaces. Among them, Krasnosel'ski\u{\i}--Mann iteration and Halpern iteration are two widely used schemes. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Yifan Bai , Yantao Li , Jian Yu , Jingwei Liang

In this paper, we discuss characterizations of common fixed points of commutative semigroups of nonexpansive mappings. We next prove convergence theorems to a common fixed point. We finally discuss nonexpansive retractions onto the set of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Suzuki

Variational analysis provides the theoretical foundations and practical tools for constructing optimization algorithms without being restricted to smooth or convex problems. We survey the central concepts in the context of a concrete but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Johannes O. Royset

We consider the application of the type-I Anderson acceleration to solving general non-smooth fixed-point problems. By interleaving with safe-guarding steps, and employing a Powell-type regularization and a re-start checking for strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Junzi Zhang , Brendan O'Donoghue , Stephen Boyd

Using convex combination and linesearch techniques, we introduce a novel primal-dual algorithm for solving structured convex-concave saddle point problems with a generic smooth nonbilinear coupling term. Our adaptive linesearch strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Xiaokai Chang , Junfeng Yang , Hongchao Zhang

We introduce the notion of consistent error bound functions which provides a unifying framework for error bounds for multiple convex sets. This framework goes beyond the classical Lipschitzian and H\"olderian error bounds and includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Tianxiang Liu , Bruno F. Lourenço

We consider the problem of finding the minimizations of the sum of two convex functions and the composition of another convex function with a continuous linear operator from the view of fixed point algorithms based on proximity operators,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Meng Wen , Yu-Chao Tang , Jigen Peng

We consider the variational inequality problem over the intersection of fixed point sets of firmly nonexpansive operators. In order to solve the problem, we present an algorithm and subsequently show the strong convergence of the generated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Mootta Prangprakhon , Nimit Nimana , Narin Petrot

We consider a Hilbert space that is a product of a finite number of Hilbert spaces and operators that are represented by "componental operators" acting on the Hilbert spaces that form the product space. We attribute operatorial properties…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Andrzej Cegielski , Yair Censor

Compressed sensing seeks to invert an underdetermined linear system by exploiting additional knowledge of the true solution. Over the last decade, several instances of compressed sensing have been studied for various applications, and for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Jameson Cahill , Dustin G. Mixon

In this paper, we develop rapidly convergent forward-backward algorithms for computing zeroes of the sum of finitely many maximally monotone operators. A modification of the classical forward-backward method for two general operators is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Paul-Emile Maingé

In evolutionary optimization, it is important to understand how fast evolutionary algorithms converge to the optimum per generation, or their convergence rate. This paper proposes a new measure of the convergence rate, called average…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Jun He , Guangming Lin

We consider general linear non-degenerate weakly-coupled cooperative elliptic systems and study certain monotonicity properties of the generalized principal eigenvalue in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with respect to the potential. It is shown that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Somnath Pradhan