Convergence of descent methods for semi-algebraic and tame problems: proximal algorithms, forward-backward splitting, and regularized Gauss-Seidel methods

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Attouch, Hedy; Bolte, Jerome; Svaiter, Benar Fux
• 署名单位: Universite de Montpellier; Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics; Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
• 刊物名称: MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-5610
• DOI: 10.1007/s10107-011-0484-9
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 91-129
• 关键词: point algorithm; minimization

摘要

In view of the minimization of a nonsmooth nonconvex function f, we prove an abstract convergence result for descent methods satisfying a sufficient-decrease assumption, and allowing a relative error tolerance. Our result guarantees the convergence of bounded sequences, under the assumption that the function f satisfies the Kurdyka-Aojasiewicz inequality. This assumption allows to cover a wide range of problems, including nonsmooth semi-algebraic (or more generally tame) minimization. The specialization of our result to different kinds of structured problems provides several new convergence results for inexact versions of the gradient method, the proximal method, the forward-backward splitting algorithm, the gradient projection and some proximal regularization of the Gauss-Seidel method in a nonconvex setting. Our results are illustrated through feasibility problems, or iterative thresholding procedures for compressive sensing.