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Resolvents of set-valued operators play a central role in various branches of mathematics and in particular in the design and the analysis of splitting algorithms for solving monotone inclusions. We propose a generalization of this notion,…
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In this paper, we propose an adaptive forward-backward-forward splitting algorithm for finding a zero of a pseudo-monotone operator which is split as a sum of three operators: the first is continuous single-valued, the second is…
We study frugal splitting algorithms with minimal lifting for solving monotone inclusion problems involving sums of maximal monotone and cocoercive operators. Building on a foundational result by Ryu, we fully characterize all methods that…
We address the problem of finding the zeros of the sum of a maximally monotone operator and a cocoercive operator. Our approach introduces a modification to the forward-backward method by integrating an inertial/momentum term alongside a…
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We propose a geometric framework to describe and analyze a wide array of operator splitting methods for solving monotone inclusion problems. The initial inclusion problem, which typically involves several operators combined through…
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The goal of this paper is to present two algorithms for solving systems of inclusion problems, with all component of the systems being a sum of two maximal monotone operators. The algorithms are variants of the forward-backward splitting…