Proximal Methods for Mixed Quasivariational Inequalities

A proximal method for solving mixed quasivariational inequalities is suggested and analyzed by using the auxiliary principle technique. We show that the convergence of the proposed method requires only the pseudomonotonicity, which is a weaker condition than monotonicity. Since mixed quasivariational inequalities include variational and complementarity problems as special cases, the result proved in this paper continues to hold for these problems.     

Some New Iterative Methods for General Mixed Variational Inequalities

In this paper, we use the auxiliary principle technique to suggest a class of predictorcorrector methods for solving general mixed variational inequalities. The convergence of the proposed methods only requires the partially relaxed strongly monotonicity of the operator, which is weaker than co-coercivity. From special cases, we obtain various known and new results for solving various classes of variational inequalities and related problems.AMS Subject Classification (1991): 49J40, 90C33.     

Some Predictor-Corrector Algorithms for Multivalued Variational Inequalities

In this paper, we use the auxiliary principle technique to suggest a new class of predictor-corrector algorithms for solving multivalued variational inequalities. The convergence of the proposed methods requires only the partially-relaxed strong monotonicity of the operator, which is weaker than cocoercivity. As special cases, we obtain a number of known and new results for solving various classes of variational inequalities.     

Extragradient Methods for Pseudomonotone Variational Inequalities

We consider and analyze some new extragradient-type methods for solving variational inequalities. The modified methods converge for a pseudomonotone operator, which is a much weaker condition than monotonicity. These new iterative methods include the projection, extragradient, and proximal methods as special cases. Our proof of convergence is very simple as compared with other methods.     

A Class of Combined Iterative Methods for Solving Variational Inequalities

A general approach to constructing iterative methods that solve variational inequalities is proposed. It is based on combining, modifying, and extending ideas contained in various Newton-like methods. Various algorithms can be obtained with this approach. Their convergence is proved under weak assumptions. In particular, the main mapping need not be monotone. Some rates of convergence are also given.     

Convergence of the Approximate Auxiliary Problem Method for Solving Generalized Variational Inequalities

We consider an extension of the auxiliary problem principle for solving a general variational inequality problem. This problem consists in finding a zero of the sum of two operators defined on a real Hilbert space H: the first is a monotone single-valued operator; the second is the subdifferential of a lower semicontinuous proper convex function . To make the subproblems easier to solve, we consider two kinds of lower approximations for the function : a smooth approximation and a piecewise linear convex approximation. We explain how to construct these approximations and we prove the weak convergence and the strong convergence of the sequence generated by the corresponding algorithms under a pseudo Dunn condition on the single-valued operator. Finally, we report some numerical experiences to illustrate the behavior of the two algorithms.     

On General Mixed Quasivariational Inequalities

In this paper, we suggest and analyze several iterative methods for solving general mixed quasivariational inequalities by using the technique of updating the solution and the auxiliary principle. It is shown that the convergence of these methods requires either the pseudomonotonicity or the partially relaxed strong monotonicity of the operator. Proofs of convergence is very simple. Our new methods differ from the existing methods for solving various classes of variational inequalities and related optimization problems. Various special cases are also discussed.     

Iterative Schemes for Nonconvex Variational Inequalities

In this paper, we suggest and analyze some iterative methods for solving nonconvex variational inequalities using the auxiliary principle technique, the convergence of which requires either only pseudomonotonicity or partially relaxed strong monotonicity. Our proofs of convergence are very simple. As special cases, we obtain earlier results for solving general variational inequalities involving convex sets.     

Splitting Algorithms for General Pseudomonotone Mixed Variational Inequalities

In this paper, we suggest and analyze a number of resolvent-splitting algorithms for solving general mixed variational inequalities by using the updating technique of the solution. The convergence of these new methods requires either monotonicity or pseudomonotonicity of the operator. Proof of convergence is very simple. Our new methods differ from the existing splitting methods for solving variational inequalities and complementarity problems. The new results are versatile and are easy to implement.     

Pseudomonotone Variational Inequalities: Convergence of Proximal Methods

In this paper, we study the convergence of proximal methods for solving pseudomonotone (in the sense of Karamardian) variational inequalities. The main result is given in the finite-dimensional case, but we show that we still obtain convergence in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space under a strong pseudomonotonicity or a pseudo-Dunn assumption on the operator involved in the variational inequality problem.     

Projection-Splitting Algorithms for General Monotone Variational Inequalities

We suggest and analyze some new splitting type projection methods for solving general variational inequalities by using the updating technique of the solution. The convergence analysis of these new methods is considered and the proof of convergence is very simple. These new methods are versatile.     

Unified Framework of Extragradient-Type Methods for Pseudomonotone Variational Inequalities

In this paper, we propose a unified framework of extragradient-type methods for solving pseudomonotone variational inequalities, which allows one to take different stepsize rules and requires the computation of only two projections at each iteration. It is shown that the modified extragradient method of Ref. 1 falls within this framework with a short stepsize and so does the method of Ref. 2 with a long stepsize. It is further demonstrated that the algorithmic framework is globally convergent under mild assumptions and is sublinearly convergent if in addition a projection-type error bound holds locally. Preliminary numerical experiments are reported.     

A New Inexactness Criterion for Approximate Logarithmic-Quadratic Proximal Methods

Recently,a class of logarithmic-quadratic proximal(LQP)methods was intro- duced by Auslender,Teboulle and Ben-Tiba.The inexact versions of these methods solve the sub-problems in each iteration approximately.In this paper,we present a practical inexactness criterion for the inexact version of these methods.     

A Logarithmic-Quadratic Proximal Method for Variational Inequalities

We present a new method for solving variational inequalities on polyhedra. The method is proximal based, but uses a very special logarithmic-quadratic proximal term which replaces the usual quadratic, and leads to an interior proximal type algorithm. We allow for computing the iterates approximately and prove that the resulting method is globally convergent under the sole assumption that the optimal set of the variational inequality is nonempty.     

Interior Proximal Method for Variational Inequalities: Case of Nonparamonotone Operators

For variational inequalities characterizing saddle points of Lagrangians associated with convex programming problems in Hilbert spaces, the convergence of an interior proximal method based on Bregman distance functionals is studied. The convergence results admit a successive approximation of the variational inequality and an inexact treatment of the proximal iterations.An analogous analysis is performed for finite-dimensional complementarity problems with multi-valued monotone operators.     

Extended Projection Methods for Monotone Variational Inequalities

In this paper, we prove that each monotone variational inequality is equivalent to a two-mapping variational inequality problem. On the basis of this fact, a new class of iterative methods for the solution of nonlinear monotone variational inequality problems is presented. The global convergence of the proposed methods is established under the monotonicity assumption. The conditions concerning the implementability of the algorithms are also discussed. The proposed methods have a close relationship to the Douglas–Rachford operator splitting method for monotone variational inequalities.     

Iterative Methods for General Mixed Quasivariational Inequalities

It is well known that mixed quasivariational inequalities are equivalent to implicit fixed-point problems. We use this alternative equivalent formulation to suggest and analyze a new self-adaptive resolvent method for solving mixed quasivariational inequalities in conjunction with a technique updating the solution. We show that the convergence of this method requires pseudomonotonicity, which is a weaker condition than monotonicity. Since mixed quasivariational inequalities include various classes of variational inequalities as special cases, our results continue to hold for these problems.     

On a General Projection Algorithm for Variational Inequalities

Let H be a real Hilbert space with norm and inner product denoted by and . Let K be a nonempty closed convex set of H, and let f be a linear continuous functional on H. Let A, T, g be nonlinear operators from H into itself, and let be a point-to-set mapping. We deal with the problem of finding uK such that g(u)K(u) and the following relation is satisfied: , where >0 is a constant, which is called a general strong quasi-variational inequality. We give a general and unified iterative algorithm for finding the approximate solution to this problem by exploiting the projection method, and prove the existence of the solution to this problem and the convergence of the iterative sequence generated by this algorithm.     

On a Generalized System for Relaxed Cocoercive Variational Inequalities and Projection Methods

Verma introduced a system of nonlinear variational inequalities and proposed projection methods to solve it. This system reduces to a variational inequality problem under certain conditions. So, at least in form, it can be regarded as a extension of a variational inequality problem. In this note, we show that solving this system coincides exactly with solving a variational inequality problem. Therefore, we conclude that it suffices to study the corresponding variational inequalities.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant 10571134.Communicated by M. J. Balas     

On Some Properties of Generalized Proximal Point Methods for Variational Inequalities

We discuss here generalized proximal point methods applied to variational inequality problems. These methods differ from the classical point method in that a so-called Bregman distance substitutes for the Euclidean distance and forces the sequence generated by the algorithm to remain in the interior of the feasible region, assumed to be nonempty. We consider here the case in which this region is a polyhedron (which includes linear and nonlinear programming, monotone linear complementarity problems, and also certain nonlinear complementarity problems), and present two alternatives to deal with linear equality constraints. We prove that the sequences generated by any of these alternatives, which in general are different, converge to the same point, namely the solution of the problem which is closest, in the sense of the Bregman distance, to the initial iterate, for a certain class of operators. This class consists essentially of point-to-point and differentiable operators such that their Jacobian matrices are positive semidefinite (not necessarily symmetric) and their kernels are constant in the feasible region and invariant through symmetrization. For these operators, the solution set of the problem is also a polyhedron. Thus, we extend a previous similar result which covered only linear operators with symmetric and positive-semidefinite matrices.