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This paper considers coordinated linear precoding in downlink multicell multiuser orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) network. A less-complex, fast and provably convergent algorithm that maximizes the weighted sum-rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Mirza Golam Kibria , Hidekazu Murata , Susumu Yoshida

We study the decomposition of multivariate polynomials as sums of powers of linear forms. We give a randomized algorithm for the following problem: If a homogeneous polynomial $f \in K[x_1 , . . . , x_n]$ (where $K \subseteq \mathbb{C}$) of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Pascal Koiran , Subhayan Saha

Polynomial optimization problems represent a wide class of optimization problems, with a large number of real-world applications. Current approaches for polynomial optimization, such as the sum of squares (SOS) method, rely on large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Dick den Hertog , Thodoris Koukouvinos

In this paper, we study the convergence rate of the DCA (Difference-of-Convex Algorithm), also known as the convex-concave procedure, with two different termination criteria that are suitable for smooth and nonsmooth decompositions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Etienne de Klerk , Moslem Zamani

Sentence compression is an important problem in natural language processing with wide applications in text summarization, search engine and human-AI interaction system etc. In this paper, we design a hybrid extractive sentence compression…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yi-Shuai Niu , Yu You , Wenxu Xu , Wentao Ding , Junpeng Hu , Songquan Yao

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

Singular Value Decomposition (and Principal Component Analysis) is one of the most widely used techniques for dimensionality reduction: successful and efficiently computable, it is nevertheless plagued by a well-known, well-documented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Huan Xu , Constantine Caramanis , Sujay Sanghavi

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

The optimization problem of sparse and low-rank matrix recovery is considered, which involves a least squares problem with a rank constraint and a cardinality constraint. To overcome the challenges posed by these constraints, an asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Mingcai Ding , Xiaoliang Song , Bo Yu

This paper introduces a deep reinforcement learning-based block coordinate descent (DRL-based BCD) algorithm to address the nonconvex weighted sum-rate maximization (WSRM) problem with a total power constraint. Firstly, we present an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Siya Chen , Chee Wei Tan , H. Vincent Poor

We present a novel deep learning approach to approximate the solution of large, sparse, symmetric, positive-definite linear systems of equations. These systems arise from many problems in applied science, e.g., in numerical methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ayano Kaneda , Osman Akar , Jingyu Chen , Victoria Kala , David Hyde , Joseph Teran

In this paper, we propose an optimization-based method for robust phase retrieval problem where the goal is to estimate an unknown signal from a quadratic measurement corrupted by outliers. To enhance the robustness of existing optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Kumataro Yazawa , Keita Kume , Isao Yamada

The paper deals with stochastic difference-of-convex functions (DC) programs, that is, optimization problems whose the cost function is a sum of a lower semicontinuous DC function and the expectation of a stochastic DC function with respect…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Le Thi Hoai An , Huynh Van Ngai , Pham Dinh Tao , Luu Hoang Phuc Hau

This work proposes a novel and unified sparse recovery framework, termed the difference of convex Elastic Net (DCEN). This framework effectively balances strong sparsity promotion with solution stability, and is particularly suitable for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Lang Yu , Nanjing Huang

This paper presents and investigates an inexact proximal gradient method for solving composite convex optimization problems characterized by an objective function composed of a sum of a full-domain differentiable convex function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yunier Bello-Cruz , Max L. N. Gonçalves , Jefferson G. Melo , Cassandra Mohr

This paper introduces a novel penalty decomposition algorithm customized for addressing the non-differentiable and nonconvex problem of extended mean-variance-CVaR portfolio optimization with short-selling and cardinality constraints. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ahmad Mousavi , Maziar Salahi , Zois Boukouvalas

This paper proposes a fast decentralized algorithm for solving a consensus optimization problem defined in a directed networked multi-agent system, where the local objective functions have the smooth+nonsmooth composite form, and are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Jinshan Zeng , Tao He , Mingwen Wang

Difference-of-Convex Algorithm (DCA) is a well-known nonconvex optimization algorithm for minimizing a nonconvex function that can be expressed as the difference of two convex ones. Many famous existing optimization algorithms, such as SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Youran Sun , Yihua Liu , Yi-Shuai Niu

This paper studies consensus-based decentralized stochastic optimization for minimizing possibly non-convex expected objectives with convex non-smooth regularizers and nonlinear functional inequality constraints. We reformulate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Shivangi Dubey Sharma , Basil M. Idrees , Lavish Arora , Ketan Rajawat

Sentence compression is an important problem in natural language processing. In this paper, we firstly establish a new sentence compression model based on the probability model and the parse tree model. Our sentence compression model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Yi-Shuai Niu , Xi-Wei Hu , Yu You , Faouzi Mohamed Benammour , Hu Zhang