A four-operator splitting algorithm for nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization

In this work, we address a class of nonconvex nonsmooth optimization problems where the objective function is the sum of two smooth functions (one of which is proximable) and two nonsmooth functions (one weakly convex and proximable and the other continuous and weakly concave). We introduce a new splitting algorithm that extends the Davis-Yin splitting (DYS) algorithm to handle such four-term nonconvex nonsmooth problems. We prove that with appropriately chosen step sizes, our algorithm exhibits global subsequential convergence to stationary points with a stationarity measure converging at a rate of 1/k. When specialized to the setting of the DYS algorithm, our results allow for larger stepsizes compared to existing bounds in the literature. Experimental results demonstrate the practical applicability and effectiveness of our proposed algorithm.