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The Douglas--Rachford and Peaceman--Rachford splitting methods are common choices for temporal discretizations of evolution equations. In this paper we combine these methods with spatial discretizations fulfilling some easily verifiable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Eskil Hansen , Erik Henningsson

In this paper, we propose several graph-based extensions of the Douglas-Rachford splitting (DRS) method to solve monotone inclusion problems involving the sum of $N$ maximal monotone operators. Our construction is based on a two-layer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Kristian Bredies , Enis Chenchene , Emanuele Naldi

Finding a zero of a sum of maximally monotone operators is a fundamental problem in modern optimization and nonsmooth analysis. Assuming that the resolvents of the operators are available, this problem can be tackled with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Heinz H. Bauschke , Shambhavi Singh , Xianfu Wang

In this paper, we investigate the behavior of the family of graph-based splitting algorithms specialized to the problem of finding a point in the intersection of linear subspaces. The algorithms in this family, which encompasses several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Francisco J. Aragón-Artacho , César López-Pastor

We prove that the sequences generate by the Douglas-Rachford method converge weakly to a solution of the inclusion problem

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-07-14 B. F. Svaiter

We consider resolvent splitting algorithms for finding a zero of the sum of finitely many maximally monotone operators. The standard approach to solving this type of problem involves reformulating as a two-operator problem in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Farhana A. Simi , Matthew K. Tam

We address the generalized aggregative equilibrium seeking problem for noncooperative agents playing average aggregative games with affine coupling constraints. First, we use operator theory to characterize the generalized aggregative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Giuseppe Belgioioso , Sergio Grammatico

This paper studies a class of monotone inclusion problems in a real Hilbert space involving the sum of three operators, where two are maximal monotone and the third is cocoercive. The Davis--Yin three-operator splitting method extends the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Maoran Wang , Zijun Xia , Xingju Cai

The main challenge of nonconvex optimization is to find a global optimum, or at least to avoid ``bad'' local minima and meaningless stationary points. We study here the extent to which algorithms, as opposed to optimization models and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Thi Lan Dinh , Wiebke Bennecke , G. S. Matthijs Jansen , D. Russell Luke , Stefan Mathias

The Douglas--Rachford (DR) and alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) are two proximal splitting algorithms designed to minimize the sum of two proper lower semi-continuous convex functions whose proximity operators are easy to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Jingwei Liang , Jalal Fadili , Gabriel Peyré

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

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

The Douglas-Rachford (DR) method is a widely used method for finding a point in the intersection of two closed convex sets (feasibility problem). However, the method converges weakly and the associated rate of convergence is hard to analyze…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Deren Han , Yansheng Su , Jiaxin Xie

In this expository paper, we show how to use the Douglas-Rachford algorithm as a successful heuristic for finding magic squares. The Douglas-Rachford algorithm is an iterative projection method for solving feasibility problems. Although its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Paula Segura Martínez

Demiclosedness principles are powerful tools in the study of convergence of iterative methods. For instance, a multi-operator demiclosedness principle for firmly nonexpansive mappings is useful in obtaining simple and transparent arguments…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Sedi Bartz , Rubén Campoy , Hung M. Phan

In this work we focus on the convex feasibility problem (CFP) in Hilbert space. A specific method in this area that has gained a lot of interest in recent years is the Douglas-Rachford (DR) algorithm. This algorithm was originally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Kay Barshad , Aviv Gibali , Simeon Reich

This paper provides a theoretical and numerical comparison of classical first-order splitting methods for solving smooth convex optimization problems and cocoercive equations. From a theoretical point of view, we compare convergence rates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Luis Briceño-Arias , Nelly Pustelnik

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

We give sparsity results and present algorithms for calculating minimum (vector) 1-norm universal solvers connected to least-squares problems. In particular, besides universal least-squares solvers, we consider minimum-rank universal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Ananias Sousa Machado , Marcia Fampa , Jon Lee

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