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Sparse optimization refers to an optimization problem involving the zero-norm in objective or constraints. In this paper, nonconvex approximation approaches for sparse optimization have been studied with a unifying point of view in DC…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Hoai An Le Thi , Tao Pham Dinh , Hoai Minh Le , Xuan Thanh Vo

Difference of convex (DC) functions cover a broad family of non-convex and possibly non-smooth and non-differentiable functions, and have wide applications in machine learning and statistics. Although deterministic algorithms for DC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Yi Xu , Qi Qi , Qihang Lin , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang

We study the continuous-time structure of the difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) for smooth DC decompositions with a strongly convex component. In dual coordinates, classical DCA is exactly the full-step explicit Euler discretization of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Yi-Shuai Niu

In this paper, we consider a class of structured nonconvex nonsmooth optimization problems whose objective function is the sum of three nonconvex functions, one of which is expressed in a difference-of-convex (DC) form. This problem class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Minh N. Dao , Tan Nhat Pham , Phan Thanh Tung

The Boosted Difference of Convex functions Algorithm (BDCA) has been recently introduced to accelerate the performance of the classical Difference of Convex functions Algorithm (DCA). This acceleration is achieved thanks to an extrapolation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Rubén Campoy , Phan T. Vuong

In this paper, we consider a class of constrained multiobjective optimization problems, where each objective function can be expressed by adding a possibly nonsmooth nonconvex function and a differentiable function with Lipschitz continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Nguyen Van Tuyen , Minh N. Dao , Tran Van Nghi

The difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) and its variants are the most popular methods to solve the difference-of-convex optimization problem. Each iteration of them is reduced to a convex optimization problem, which generally needs to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Songnian He , Qiao-Li Dong , Michael Th. Rassias

In this paper, we propose a clean and general proof framework to establish the convergence analysis of the Difference-of-Convex (DC) programming algorithm (DCA) for both standard DC program and convex constrained DC program. We first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Yi-Shuai Niu

In this paper we consider the difference-of-convex (DC) programming problems, whose objective function is the difference of two convex functions. The classical DC Algorithm (DCA) is well-known for solving this kind of problems, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Yu You , Yi-Shuai Niu

In this paper, we study the decentralized optimization problem of minimizing a finite sum of continuously differentiable and possibly nonconvex functions over a fixed-connected undirected network. We propose a unified decentralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hao Wu , Liping Wang

We address the minimization of a smooth objective function under an $\ell_0$-constraint and simple convex constraints. When the problem has no constraints except the $\ell_0$-constraint, some efficient algorithms are available; for example,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Katsuya Tono , Akiko Takeda , Jun-ya Gotoh

The difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) is a well-established nonlinear programming technique that solves successive convex optimization problems. These sub-problems are obtained from the difference-of-convex~(DC) decompositions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Etienne de Klerk , Adrien Taylor

In this paper, we consider a class of difference-of-convex (DC) optimization problems, which require only a weaker restricted $L$-smooth adaptable property on the smooth part of the objective function, instead of the standard global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Lei Yang , Jingjing Hu , Kim-Chuan Toh

In this paper, we design and apply novel inexact adaptive algorithms to deal with minimizing difference-of-convex (DC) functions in Hilbert spaces. We first introduce I-ADCA, an inexact adaptive counterpart of the well-recognized DCA…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 P. D. Khanh , V. V. H. Khoa , B. S. Mordukhovich , D. B. Tran , N. V. Vo

Motivated by a class of applied problems arising from physical layer based security in a digital communication system, in particular, by a secrecy sum-rate maximization problem, this paper studies a nonsmooth, difference-of-convex (dc)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Jong-Shi Pang , Meisam Razaviyayn , Alberth Alvarado

Decentralized minimax optimization has been actively studied in the past few years due to its application in a wide range of machine learning models. However, the current theoretical understanding of its convergence rate is far from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yihan Zhang , Wenhao Jiang , Feng Zheng , Chiu C. Tan , Xinghua Shi , Hongchang Gao

We investigate a difference-of-convex (DC) formulation where the second term is allowed to be weakly convex. We examine the precise behavior of a single iteration of the difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA), providing a tight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Teodor Rotaru , Panagiotis Patrinos , François Glineur

Difference of Convex (DC) optimization problems have objective functions that are differences between two convex functions. Representative ways of solving these problems are the proximal DC algorithms, which require that the convex part of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Shota Takahashi , Mituhiro Fukuda , Mirai Tanaka

This paper considers nonconvex distributed constrained optimization over networks, modeled as directed (possibly time-varying) graphs. We introduce the first algorithmic framework for the minimization of the sum of a smooth nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Gesualdo Scutari , Ying Sun

The Difference of Convex functions Algorithm (DCA) is widely used for minimizing the difference of two convex functions. A recently proposed accelerated version, termed BDCA for Boosted DC Algorithm, incorporates a line search step to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Rubén Campoy , Phan T. Vuong