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This paper first proposes an N-block PCPM algorithm to solve N-block convex optimization problems with both linear and nonlinear constraints, with global convergence established. A linear convergence rate under the strong second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Run Chen , Andrew L. Liu

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

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

In this paper, we focus on the problem of minimizing the sum of a nonconvex differentiable function and a DC (Difference of Convex functions) function, where the differentiable function is not restricted to the global Lipschitz gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Duy Nhat Phan , Hoai An Le Thi

This paper introduces an efficient perturbed difference-of-convex algorithm (pDCA) for computing d-stationary points of an important class of structured nonsmooth difference-of-convex problems. Compared to the principal algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Zhangcheng Feng , Yancheng Yuan

In this paper, we consider nonconvex decentralised optimisation and learning over a network of distributed agents. We develop an ADMM algorithm based on the Randomised Block Coordinate Douglas-Rachford splitting method which enables agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Behnam Mafakheri , Jonathan H. Manton , Iman Shames

In this paper, we present two variants of DCA (Different of Convex functions Algorithm) to solve the constrained sum of differentiable function and composite functions minimization problem, with the aim of increasing the convergence speed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Hoai An Le Thi , Hoai Minh Le , Duy Nhat Phan , Bach Tran

In this paper, a class of large-scale distributed nonsmooth convex optimization problem over time-varying multi-agent network is investigated. Specifically, the decision space which can be split into several blocks of convex set is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Zhan Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho

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

We consider distributed optimization over networks where each agent is associated with a smooth and strongly convex local objective function. We assume that the agents only have access to unbiased estimators of the gradient of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Farzad Yousefian , Jayesh Yevale , Harshal D. Kaushik

Block-coordinate descent (BCD) is a popular framework for large-scale regularized optimization problems with block-separable structure. Existing methods have several limitations. They often assume that subproblems can be solved exactly at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

We propose a method for analyzing the distributed random coordinate descent algorithm for solving separable resource allocation problems in the context of an open multiagent system, where agents can be replaced during the process. In…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Charles Monnoyer de Galland , Renato Vizuete , Julien M. Hendrickx , Elena Panteley , Paolo Frasca

A new framework for many multiblock component methods (including consensus and hierarchical PCA) is proposed. It is based on the consensus PCA model: a scheme connecting each block of variables to a superblock obtained by concatenation of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-04-28 Michel Tenenhaus , Arthur Tenenhaus , Patrick J. F. Groenen

As the number of samples and dimensionality of optimization problems related to statistics an machine learning explode, block coordinate descent algorithms have gained popularity since they reduce the original problem to several smaller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Rémi Flamary , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Gilles Gasso

We propose an algorithm for optimizing the parameters of single hidden layer neural networks. Specifically, we derive a blockwise difference-of-convex (DC) functions representation of the objective function. Based on the latter, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Daniel Tschernutter , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel

In this work, we propose and analyze DCA-PAGE, a novel algorithm that integrates the difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) with the ProbAbilistic Gradient Estimator (PAGE) to solve structured nonsmooth difference-of-convex programs. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Anh Duc Nguyen , Alp Yurtsever , Suvrit Sra , Kim-Chuan Toh

In this paper we analyze the randomized block-coordinate descent (RBCD) methods proposed in [8,11] for minimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a block-separable convex function. In particular, we extend Nesterov's technique…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Zhaosong Lu , Lin Xiao

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

Block-coordinate descent algorithms and alternating minimization methods are fundamental optimization algorithms and an important primitive in large-scale optimization and machine learning. While various block-coordinate-descent-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Jelena Diakonikolas , Lorenzo Orecchia

In this paper we develop a randomized block-coordinate descent method for minimizing the sum of a smooth and a simple nonsmooth block-separable convex function and prove that it obtains an $\epsilon$-accurate solution with probability at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-15 Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč