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The Douglas--Rachford algorithm is a classical and very successful splitting method for finding the zeros of the sums of monotone operators. When the underlying operators are normal cone operators, the algorithm solves a convex feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Heinz H. Bauschke , Walaa M. Moursi

The Douglas-Rachford algorithm is a classical and powerful splitting method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions and, more generally, finding a zero of the sum of two maximally monotone operators. Although this algorithm is well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Minh N. Dao , Hung M. Phan

The Douglas-Rachford splitting algorithm is a classical optimization method that has found many applications. When specialized to two normal cone operators, it yields an algorithm for finding a point in the intersection of two convex sets.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Heinz H. Bauschke , J. Y. Bello Cruz , Tran T. A. Nghia , Hung M. Phan , Xianfu Wang

The difference-of-convex (DC) program is an important model in nonconvex optimization due to its structure, which encompasses a wide range of practical applications. In this paper, we aim to tackle a generalized class of DC programs, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Tan Nhat Pham , Minh N. Dao , Nima Amjady , Rakibuzzaman Shah

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

The proximal point algorithm (PPA) is the most widely recognized method for solving inclusion problems and serves as the foundation for many numerical algorithms. Despite this popularity, its convergence results have been largely limited to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Brecht Evens , Pieter Pas , Puya Latafat , Panagiotis Patrinos

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in mathematical models leading to the minimization, in a symmetric matrix space, of a Bregman divergence coupled with a regularization term. We address problems of this type within a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 A. Benfenati , E. Chouzenoux , J. -C. Pesquet

The Douglas-Rachford algorithm (DRA) is a powerful optimization method for minimizing the sum of two convex (not necessarily smooth) functions. The vast majority of previous research dealt with the case when the sum has at least one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Heinz H. Bauschke , Walaa M. Moursi

This paper proposes an algorithm for solving structured optimization problems, which covers both the backward-backward and the Douglas-Rachford algorithms as special cases, and analyzes its convergence. The set of fixed points of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Nguyen Hieu Thao

In this paper, we consider nonconvex decentralised optimisation and learning over a network of distributed agents. We develop an ADMM algorithm based on the Randomised Block Coordinate Douglas-Rachford splitting method which enables agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Behnam Mafakheri , Jonathan H. Manton , Iman Shames

Many large-scale and distributed optimization problems can be brought into a composite form in which the objective function is given by the sum of a smooth term and a nonsmooth regularizer. Such problems can be solved via a proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Sepideh Hassan-Moghaddam , Mihailo R. Jovanović

Although the performance of popular optimization algorithms such as Douglas-Rachford splitting (DRS) and the ADMM is satisfactory in small and well-scaled problems, ill conditioning and problem size pose a severe obstacle to their reliable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Andreas Themelis , Lorenzo Stella , Panagiotis Patrinos

Convex quadratic programs (QPs) are fundamental to numerous applications, including finance, engineering, and energy systems. Among the various methods for solving them, the Douglas-Rachford (DR) splitting algorithm is notable for its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Jinxin Xiong , Xi Gao , Linxin Yang , Jiang Xue , Xiaodong Luo , Akang Wang

In this work, we consider the distributed optimization of non-smooth convex functions using a network of computing units. We investigate this problem under two regularity assumptions: (1) the Lipschitz continuity of the global objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Kevin Scaman , Francis Bach , Sébastien Bubeck , Yin Tat Lee , Laurent Massoulié

We consider a distributed non-convex optimization where a network of agents aims at minimizing a global function over the Stiefel manifold. The global function is represented as a finite sum of smooth local functions, where each local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Shixiang Chen , Alfredo Garcia , Mingyi Hong , Shahin Shahrampour

This paper studies decentralized optimization over a compact submanifold within a communication network of $n$ nodes, where each node possesses a smooth non-convex local cost function, and the goal is to jointly minimize the sum of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Kangkang Deng , Jiang Hu

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.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 D. R. Sahu , Shikher Sharma , Pankaj Gautam

The Douglas--Rachford algorithm is a classic splitting method for finding a zero of the sum of two maximal monotone operators. It has also been applied to settings that involve one weakly and one strongly monotone operator. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Jan Harold Alcantara , Akiko Takeda

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Jacob H. Seidman , Mahyar Fazlyab , Victor M. Preciado , George J. Pappas

We consider the application of the Douglas-Rachford (DR) algorithm to solve linear-quadratic (LQ) control problems with box constraints on the state and control variables. We split the constraints of the optimal control problem into two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Regina S. Burachik , Bethany I. Caldwell , C. Yalçın Kaya