%0 Journal Article %T Modified Fej¨Śr sequences and applications %A Junhong Lin %A Lorenzo Rosasco %A Silvia Villa %A Ding-Xuan Zhou %J Mathematics %D 2015 %I arXiv %X In this note, we propose and study the notion of modified Fej\'{e}r sequences. Within a Hilbert space setting, we show that it provides a unifying framework to prove convergence rates for objective function values of several optimization algorithms. In particular, our results apply to forward-backward splitting algorithm, incremental subgradient proximal algorithm, and the Douglas-Rachford splitting method including and generalizing known results. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04641v1