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In October 2025, research by Bo\c{t}, Fadili, and Nguyen, and by Jang and Ryu, led to the seminal result that Beck and Teboulle's FISTA converges weakly to a minimizer of the sum of two convex functions resolving a long-standing open…
Beck and Teboulle's FISTA method for finding a minimizer of the sum of two convex functions, one of which has a Lipschitz continuous gradient whereas the other may be nonsmooth, is arguably the most important optimization algorithm of the…
Introduced by Beck and Teboulle, FISTA (for Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm) is a first-order method widely used in convex optimization. Adapted from Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for convex functions, the generated…
Many problems in science and engineering involve, as part of their solution process, the consideration of a separable function which is the sum of two convex functions, one of them possibly non-smooth. Recently a few works have discussed…
In this paper, we propose a novel accelerated forward-backward splitting algorithm for minimizing convex composite functions, written as the sum of a smooth function and a (possibly) nonsmooth function. When the objective function is…
Very recently, the papers "Point Convergence of Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient Method: An AI-Assisted Proof" by Jang and Ryu, and "The Iterates of Nesterov's Accelerated Algorithm Converge in the Critical Regimes" by Bot, Fadili, and…
We consider the iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithm (ISTA) applied to a cost function composed of a data fidelity term and a penalty term. The penalty is non-convex but the concavity of the penalty is accounted for by the data…
This paper provides a new way of developing the fast iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithm (FISTA) that is widely used for minimizing composite convex functions with a nonsmooth term such as the $\ell_1$ regularizer. In particular,…
FISTA is a popular convex optimisation algorithm which is known to converge at an optimal rate whenever a minimiser is contained in a suitable Hilbert space. We propose a modified algorithm where each iteration is performed in a subset…
We consider a variable metric and inexact version of the FISTA-type algorithm considered in (Chambolle, Pock, 2016, Calatroni, Chambolle, 2019) for the minimization of the sum of two (possibly strongly) convex functions. The proposed…
One of the most popular and important first-order iterations that provides optimal complexity of the classical proximal gradient method (PGM) is the "Fast Iterative Shrinkage/Thresholding Algorithm" (FISTA). In this paper, two inexact…
Convex-composite optimization, which minimizes an objective function represented by the sum of a differentiable function and a convex one, is widely used in machine learning and signal/image processing. Fast Iterative Shrinkage Thresholding…
Accelerated proximal gradient methods, which are also called fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithms (FISTA) are known to be efficient for many applications. Recently, Tanabe et al. proposed an extension of FISTA for multiobjective…
The ``fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm'', a.k.a. FISTA, is one of the most widely used algorithms in the literature. However, despite its optimal theoretical $O(1/k^2)$ convergence rate guarantee, oftentimes in practice its…
We investigate two inertial forward-backward algorithms in connection with the minimization of the sum of a non-smooth and possibly non-convex and a non-convex differentiable function. The algorithms are formulated in the spirit of the…
This paper extends the algorithm schemes proposed in \cite{Nesterov2007a} and \cite{Nesterov2007b} to the minimization of the sum of a composite objective function and a convex function. Two proximal point-type schemes are provided and…
In this paper, we conduct a theoretical and numerical study of the Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm (FISTA) under strong convexity assumptions. We propose an autonomous Lyapunov function that reflects the strong convexity of…
A problem of great interest in optimization is to minimize a sum of two closed, proper, and convex functions where one is smooth and the other has a computationally inexpensive proximal operator. In this paper we analyze a family of…
The purpose of this technical report is to review the main properties of an accelerated composite gradient (ACG) method commonly referred to as the Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm (FISTA). In addition, we state a version of…
In this paper, we revisit the class of iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithms (ISTA) for solving the linear inverse problem with sparse representation, which arises in signal and image processing. It is shown in the numerical…