“…Our work is part of the active research stream that studies the close link between continuous dissipative dynamical systems and optimization algorithms. In general, the implicit temporal discretization of continuous gradient-based dynamics provides proximal algorithms that benefit from similar asymptotic convergence properties, see [29] for a systematic study in the case of first-order evolution systems, and [5,6,8,12,11,19,20,21] for some recent results concerning second-order evolution equations. The main object of our study is the second-order in time differential equation (IGS) γ,β,bẍ (t) + γ(t)ẋ(t) + β(t)∇ 2 f (x(t))ẋ(t) + b(t)∇f (x(t)) = 0,…”