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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

The Boosted Difference of Convex functions Algorithm (BDCA) was recently proposed for minimizing smooth difference of convex (DC) functions. BDCA accelerates the convergence of the classical Difference of Convex functions Algorithm (DCA)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Phan T. Vuong

We introduce a new approach to apply the boosted difference of convex functions algorithm (BDCA) for solving non-convex and non-differentiable problems involving difference of two convex functions (DC functions). Supposing the first DC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Orizon P. Ferreira , Elianderson M. Santos , João Carlos O. Souza

We propose a new approach to perform the boosted difference of convex functions algorithm (BDCA) on non-smooth and non-convex problems involving the difference of convex (DC) functions. The recently proposed BDCA uses an extrapolation step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 ZeYu Li , Te Qi , TieYong Zeng

In this paper, we introduce an inexact approach to the Boosted Difference of Convex Functions Algorithm (BDCA) for solving nonconvex and nondifferentiable problems involving the difference of two convex functions (DC functions).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Orizon P. Ferreira , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Wilkreffy M. S. Santos , João Carlos O. Souza

This paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of the recently proposed Boosted Difference of Convex functions Algorithm (BDCA) when applied to clustering with constraints and set clustering with constraints problems. This is the first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Tuyen Tran , Kate Figenschou , Phan Tu Vuong

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

In this paper, we are interested in developing an accelerated Difference-of-Convex (DC) programming algorithm based on the exact line search for efficiently solving the Symmetric Eigenvalue Complementarity Problem (SEiCP) and Symmetric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Yi-Shuai Niu

In this paper we introduce the Boosted Double-proximal Subgradient Algorithm (BDSA), a novel splitting algorithm designed to address general structured nonsmooth and nonconvex mathematical programs expressed as sums and differences of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Francisco J. Aragón-Artacho , Pedro Pérez-Aros , David Torregrosa-Belén

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

This paper proposes a novel proximal difference-of-convex (DC) algorithm enhanced with extrapolation and aggressive non-monotone line search for solving non-convex optimization problems. We introduce an adaptive conservative update strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Ran Zhang , Hongpeng Sun

In this paper, we study possible extensions of the main ideas and methods of constrained DC optimization to the case of nonlinear semidefinite programming problems and more general nonlinear and nonsmooth cone constrained optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 M. V. Dolgopolik

We are interested in solving the Asymmetric Eigenvalue Complementarity Problem (AEiCP) by accelerated Difference-of-Convex (DC) algorithms. Two novel hybrid accelerated DCA: the Hybrid DCA with Line search and Inertial force (HDCA-LI) and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Yi-Shuai Niu

We consider a class of difference-of-convex (DC) optimization problems whose objective is level-bounded and is the sum of a smooth convex function with Lipschitz gradient, a proper closed convex function and a continuous concave function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Bo Wen , Xiaojun Chen , Ting Kei Pong

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

We consider the problem of decomposing a multivariate polynomial as the difference of two convex polynomials. We introduce algebraic techniques which reduce this task to linear, second order cone, and semidefinite programming. This allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall

In this paper, we consider a composite difference-of-convex (DC) program, whose objective function is the sum of a smooth convex function with Lipschitz continuous gradient, a proper closed and convex function, and a continuous concave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Yu You , Yi-Shuai Niu

In this article, we are interested in developing polynomial decomposition techniques based on sums-of-squares (SOS), namely the difference-of-sums-of-squares (D-SOS) and the difference-of-convex-sums-of-squares (DC-SOS). In particular, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Yi-Shuai Niu , Hoai An Le Thi , Dinh Tao Pham

We consider the problem of minimizing a difference-of-convex (DC) function, which can be written as the sum of a smooth convex function with Lipschitz gradient, a proper closed convex function and a continuous possibly nonsmooth concave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Tianxiang Liu , Ting Kei Pong , Akiko Takeda

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
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