A note on approximate accelerated forward-backward methods with absolute and relative errors, and possibly strongly convex objectives

Abstract

In this short note, we provide a simple version of an accelerated forward-backward method (a.k.a. Nesterov's accelerated proximal gradient method) possibly relying on approximate proximal operators and allowing to exploit strong convexity of the objective function. The method supports both relative and absolute errors, and its behavior is illustrated on a set of standard numerical experiments. Using the same developments, we further provide a version of the accelerated proximal hybrid extragradient method of Monteiro and Svaiter (2013) possibly exploiting strong convexity of the objective function.Comment: Minor modifications in notations and acknowledgments. These methods were originally presented in arXiv:2006.06041v2. Code available at https://github.com/mathbarre/StronglyConvexForwardBackwar