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Finite dimensional local convergence results for self-adaptive proximal point methods and nonlinear functions with multiple minimizers are generalized and extended to a Hilbert space setting. The principle assumption is a local error bound condition which relates the growth in the function to the distance to the set of minimizers. A local convergence result is established for almost exact iterates. Less restrictive acceptance criteria for the proximal iterates are also analyzed. These criteria are expressed in terms of a subdifferential of the proximal function and either a subdifferential of the original function or an iteration difference. If the proximal regularization parameter μ(x) is sufficiently small and bounded away from zero and f is sufficiently smooth, then there is local linear convergence to the set of minimizers. For a locally convex function, a convergence result similar to that for almost exact iterates is established. For a locally convex solution set and smooth functions, it is shown that if the proximal regularization parameter has the form μ(x) = β∥f′[x]∥η, where η ϵ (0, 2), then the convergence is at least superlinear if η ϵ (0, 1) and at least quadratic if η [1, 2). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces a general implicit iterative method for finding zeros of a maximal monotone operator in a Hilbert space which unifies three previously studied strategies: relaxation, inertial type extrapolation and projection step. The first two strategies are intended to speed up the convergence of the standard proximal point algorithm, while the third permits one to perform inexact proximal iterations with fixed relative error tolerance. The paper establishes the global convergence of the method for the weak topology under appropriate assumptions on the algorithm parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]