Unifying abstract inexact convergence theorems and block coordinate variable metric iPiano

An abstract convergence theorem for a class of generalized descent methods that explicitly models relative errors is proved. The convergence theorem generalizes and unifies several recent abstract convergence theorems. It is applicable to possibly non-smooth and non-convex lower semi-continuous functions that satisfy the Kurdyka–Lojasiewicz (KL) inequality, which comprises a huge class of problems. Most of … Read more