REGINN-IT method with general convex penalty terms for nonlinear inverse problems

In the spirit of the method in Margotti and Rieder (An inexact Newton regularization in Banach spaces based on the non-stationary iterated Tikhonov method. J Inverse Ill-Posed Probl. 2015;23:373–392), we propose an inexact Newton regularization which is based on the non-stationary iterated Tikhonov method for non-smooth solutions of nonlinear inverse problems in Banach spaces. The method consists of an inner iteration and an outer iteration. The outer iteration is terminated by the discrepancy principle and consists of an inexact Newton regularization method. The inner iteration is performed by the non-stationary iterated Tikhonov method. The remarkable point is that the penalty terms can be general convex functions. Under certain assumptions on nonlinear operators, the convergence analysis of our method is given by making use of tools from convex analysis. Furthermore, numerical simulations are provided to support the theoretical results and test the performance of the method.