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In this paper, we investigate the Douglas-Rachford method for two closed (possibly nonconvex) sets in Euclidean spaces. We show that under certain regularity conditions, the Douglas-Rachford method converges locally with R-linear rate. In…
Motivated by the circumcentered Douglas--Rachford method recently introduced by Behling, Bello Cruz and Santos to accelerate the Douglas--Rachford method, we study the properness of the circumcenter mapping and the circumcenter method…
We expand upon previous work that examined behavior of the iterated Douglas-Rachford method for a line and a circle by considering two generalizations: that of a line and an ellipse and that of a line together with a $p$-sphere. With…
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful splitting algorithm for linearly constrained convex optimization problems. In view of its popularity and applicability, a growing attention is drawn towards the ADMM in…
In the context of convex optimization problems in Hilbert spaces, we induce inertial effects into the classical ADMM numerical scheme and obtain in this way so-called inertial ADMM algorithms, the convergence properties of which we…
We consider the task of computing an approximate minimizer of the sum of a smooth and non-smooth convex functional, respectively, in Banach space. Motivated by the classical forward-backward splitting method for the subgradients in Hilbert…
In this paper, we introduce a simple methodology to leverage strong convexity and smoothness in order to obtain an optimal linear convergence rate for the Peaceman--Rachford splitting (PRS) scheme applied to optimization problems involving…
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.
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…
We adapt the alternating linearization method for proximal decomposition to structured regularization problems, in particular, to the generalized lasso problems. The method is related to two well-known operator splitting methods, the…
Stochastic optimization algorithms using exponential moving averages of the past gradients, such as ADAM, RMSProp and AdaGrad, have been having great successes in many applications, especially in training deep neural networks. ADAM in…
In this paper, we propose a new optimization algorithm for sparse logistic regression based on a stochastic version of the Douglas-Rachford splitting method. Our algorithm sweeps the training set by randomly selecting a mini-batch of data…
The problem of minimizing a separable convex function under linearly coupled constraints arises from various application domains such as economic systems, distributed control, and network flow. The main challenge for solving this problem is…
We consider a generalized Nash equilibrium problem (GNEP) for a network of players. Each player tries to minimize a local objective function subject to some resource constraints where both the objective functions and the resource…
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…
The success of deep neural networks hinges on our ability to accurately and efficiently optimize high-dimensional, non-convex functions. In this paper, we empirically investigate the loss functions of state-of-the-art networks, and how…
We consider a class of multi-agent optimization problems, where each agent has a local objective function that depends on its own decision variables and the aggregate of others, and is willing to cooperate with other agents to minimize the…
In this paper, we propose the Bregman Douglas-Rachford splitting (BDRS) method and its variant Bregman Peaceman-Rachford splitting method for solving maximal monotone inclusion problem. We show that BDRS is equivalent to a Bregman…
We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize the sum of a smooth (strongly) convex function, the agents' sum-utility, plus a non-smooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general algorithmic framework…
In this work, we study fixed point algorithms for finding a zero in the sum of $n\geq 2$ maximally monotone operators by using their resolvents. More precisely, we consider the class of such algorithms where each resolvent is evaluated only…