Mesh Independence of an Accelerated Block Coordinate Descent Method for Sparse Optimal Control Problems

Abstract

An accelerated block coordinate descent (ABCD) method in Hilbert space is analyzed to solve the sparse optimal control problem via its dual. The finite element approximation of this method is investigated and convergence results are presents. Based on the second order growth condition of the dual objective function, we show that iteration sequence of dual variables has the iteration complexity of $O(1/k)$. Moreover, we also prove iteration complexity for the primal problem. Two types of mesh-independence for ABCD method are proved, which asserts that asymptotically the infinite dimensional ABCD method and finite dimensional discretizations have the same convergence property, and the iterations of ABCD method remain nearly constant as the discretization is refined.