An Indefinite-Proximal-Based Strictly Contractive Peaceman-Rachford Splitting Method

The Peaceman-Rachford splitting method is efficient for minimizing a convex opti-mization problem with a separable objective function and linear constraints. However, its convergence was not guaranteed without extra requirements. He et al. (SIAM J. Optim. 24: 1011 - 1040, 2014) proved the convergence of a strictly contractive Peaceman-Rachford splitting method by employing a suitable underdetermined relaxation factor. In this paper, we further extend the so-called strictly contractive Peaceman-Rachford splitting method by using two different relaxation factors. Besides, motivated by the recent advances on the ADMM type method with indefinite proximal terms, we employ the indefinite proximal term in the strictly contractive Peaceman-Rachford splitting method. We show that the proposed indefinite-proximal strictly contractive Peaceman-Rachford splitting method is convergent and also prove the o(1/t) convergence rate in the nonergodic sense. The numerical tests on the l₁ regularized least square problem demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.