# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

2015, 5(1): 79-89. doi: 10.3934/naco.2015.5.79

## Proximal iterative Gaussian smoothing algorithm for a class of nonsmooth convex minimization problems

 1 Department of Mathematics and Physics, Shanghai Dianji University, 1350 Ganlan Road, Shanghai, 201306, China 2 School of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Dianji University, 1350 Ganlan Road, Shanghai, 201306, China 3 School of Mathematics and Information Science, Shandong Institute of Business and Technology, 191 Binhaizhong Road, Yantan, Shandong Province, 264005, China

Received  December 2014 Revised  March 2015 Published  March 2015

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a convex objective which is the sum of three parts: a smooth part, a simple non-smooth Lipschitz part, and a simple non-smooth non-Lipschitz part. A novel optimization algorithm is proposed for solving this problem. By making use of the Gaussian smoothing function of the functions occurring in the objective, we smooth the second part to a convex and differentiable function with Lipschitz continuous gradient by using both variable and constant smoothing parameters. The resulting problem is solved via an accelerated proximal-gradient method and this allows us to recover approximately the optimal solutions to the initial optimization problem with a rate of convergence of order $O(\frac{\ln k}{k})$ for variable smoothing and of order $O(\frac{1}{k})$ for constant smoothing.
Citation: Sanming Liu, Zhijie Wang, Chongyang Liu. Proximal iterative Gaussian smoothing algorithm for a class of nonsmooth convex minimization problems. Numerical Algebra, Control & Optimization, 2015, 5 (1) : 79-89. doi: 10.3934/naco.2015.5.79
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