New operator designs for Halpern iterations with explicit rates under H\"older error bounds
Abstract
We investigate the asymptotic behavior of Halpern-type iterations applied to quasi-nonexpansive operators arising in best approximation problems over the intersection of finitely many closed convex sets in . Assuming a local decrease condition for the underlying operator and standard requirements on the stepsizes , we first prove strong convergence of the Halpern sequence to the best approximation point in the intersection set, that is, the metric projection of onto that set. Under the additional assumption that the intersection satisfies a H\"older-type error bound with exponent , we then derive explicit convergence rates for both feasibility and norm error: the distance from to the intersection set decays like , while the norm error decays like . These results apply to most projection-type operators used in convex feasibility problems (including MAP, CRM/SCCRM, Cimmino and 3PM/A3PM) and extend classical convergence analyses of the Halpern-type iterations by providing explicit, geometry-dependent rates governed by H\"older-type error bounds. Our numerical experiments show that Halpern-type iterations combined with most of these projection-type operators are quicker than Dykstra's algorithm to find the projection of a point in an intersection of ellipsoids or in an intersection of polyhedrons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.14451,
title = {New operator designs for Halpern iterations with explicit rates under H\"older error bounds},
author = {Pablo Barros and Vincent Guigues and Roger Behling and Luiz-Rafael Santos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.14451},
year = {2026}
}