TY - UNPB Y1 - 2014/07// M1 - working_paper UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6723 A1 - Patrinos, Panagiotis A1 - Stella, Lorenzo A1 - Bemporad, Alberto PB - ArXiv EP - 8 ID - eprints2273 N2 - We propose a new approach for analyzing convergence of the Douglas-Rachford splitting method for solving convex composite optimization problems. The approach is based on a continuously differentiable function, the Douglas-Rachford Envelope (DRE), whose stationary points correspond to the solutions of the original (possibly nonsmooth) problem. The Douglas-Rachford splitting method is shown to be equivalent to a scaled gradient method on the DRE, and so results from smooth unconstrained optimization are employed to analyze its convergence and optimally choose parameter {\gamma} and to derive an accelerated variant of Douglas-Rachford splitting. TI - Douglas-Rachford splitting: complexity estimates and accelerated variants AV - none ER -