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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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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 paper proposes a novel Difference-of-Convex (DC) decomposition for polynomials using a power-sum representation, achieved by solving a sparse linear system. We introduce the Boosted DCA with Exact Line Search (BDCAe) for addressing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Hu Zhang , 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

Standard approaches to difference-of-convex (DC) programs require exact solution to a convex subproblem at each iteration, which generally requires noiseless computation and infinite iterations of an inner iterative algorithm. To tackle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Yi Zhang , Isao Yamada

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

In this paper, we propose an inexact block coordinate descent algorithm for large-scale nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems. At each iteration, a particular block variable is selected and updated by inexactly solving the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento , Zhi-Quan Luo , Björn Ottersten

Imaging tasks are typically tackled using a structured optimization framework. This paper delves into a class of algorithms for difference-of-convex (DC) structured optimization, focusing on minimizing a DC function along with a possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Tsz Ching Chow , Chaoyan Huang , Zhongming Wu , Tieyong Zeng , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero

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

We consider a difference-of-convex formulation where one of the terms is allowed to be hypoconvex (or weakly convex). We first examine the precise behavior of a single iteration of the Difference-of-Convex algorithm (DCA), giving a tight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Teodor Rotaru , Panagiotis Patrinos , François Glineur

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

The purpose of this paper is to present a boosted scaled subgradient-type method (BSSM) to minimize the difference of two convex functions (DC functions), where the first function is differentiable and the second one is possibly non-smooth.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Orizon P. Ferreira , Elianderson M. Santos , João Carlos O. Souza

We propose and study a version of the DCA (Difference-of-Convex functions Algorithm) using the $\ell_1$ penalty function for solving nonsmooth DC optimization problems with nonsmooth DC equality and inequality constraints. The method…

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