An Envelope for Davis-Yin Splitting and Strict Saddle Point Avoidance
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Publication:6300709
DOI10.1007/S10957-019-01477-ZarXiv1804.08739MaRDI QIDQ6300709FDOQ6300709
Publication date: 23 April 2018
Abstract: It is known that operator splitting methods based on Forward Backward Splitting (FBS), Douglas-Rachford Splitting (DRS), and Davis-Yin Splitting (DYS) decompose a difficult optimization problems into simpler subproblems under proper convexity and smoothness assumptions. In this paper, we identify an envelope (an objective function) whose gradient descent iteration under a variable metric coincides with DYS iteration. This result generalizes the Moreau envelope for proximal-point iteration and the envelopes for FBS and DRS iterations identified by Patrinos, Stella, and Themelis. Based on the new envelope and the Stable-Center Manifold Theorem, we further show that, when FBS or DRS iterations start from random points, they avoid all strict saddle points with probability one. This results extends the similar results by Lee et al. from gradient descent to splitting methods.
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