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We study the worst-case behavior of Block Coordinate Descent (BCD) type algorithms for unconstrained minimization of coordinate-wise smooth convex functions. This behavior is indeed not completely understood, and the practical success of…
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We propose a new method based on sparse optimal discriminant clustering (SODC), incorporating a penalty term into the scoring matrix based on convex clustering. With the addition of this penalty term, it is expected to improve the accuracy…
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In this work, we propose some new Douglas-Rashford splitting algorithms for solving a class of generalized DC (difference of convex functions) in real Hilbert spaces. The proposed methods leverage the proximal properties of the nonsmooth…
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…
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We present a stochastic first-order optimization algorithm, named BCSC, that adds a cyclic constraint to stochastic block-coordinate descent. It uses different subsets of the data to update different subsets of the parameters, thus limiting…