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In this paper, we design and apply novel inexact adaptive algorithms to deal with minimizing difference-of-convex (DC) functions in Hilbert spaces. We first introduce I-ADCA, an inexact adaptive counterpart of the well-recognized DCA…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 P. D. Khanh , V. V. H. Khoa , B. S. Mordukhovich , D. B. Tran , N. V. Vo

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

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

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 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

Decentralized optimization, particularly the class of decentralized composite convex optimization (DCCO) problems, has found many applications. Due to ubiquitous communication congestion and random dropouts in practice, it is highly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Changxin Liu , Zirui Zhou , Jian Pei , Yong Zhang , Yang Shi

In this paper, we consider a class of constrained multiobjective optimization problems, where each objective function can be expressed by adding a possibly nonsmooth nonconvex function and a differentiable function with Lipschitz continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Nguyen Van Tuyen , Minh N. Dao , Tran Van Nghi

This paper considers the decentralized convex optimization problem, which has a wide range of applications in large-scale machine learning, sensor networks, and control theory. We propose novel algorithms that achieve optimal computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Ziang Zhou , Tong Zhang

Prediction-correction algorithms are a highly effective class of methods for solving pseudo-convex optimization problems. The descent direction of these algorithms can be viewed as an adjustment to the gradient direction based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Ting Li , Deren Han , Tanxing Wang , Xingju Cai

Minimizing the difference of two submodular (DS) functions is a problem that naturally occurs in various machine learning problems. Although it is well known that a DS problem can be equivalently formulated as the minimization of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Marwa El Halabi , George Orfanides , Tim Hoheisel

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

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

This paper considers convex optimization problems where nodes of a network have access to summands of a global objective. Each of these local objectives is further assumed to be an average of a finite set of functions. The motivation for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Aryan Mokhtari , Alejandro Ribeiro

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

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

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 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 work, we study decentralized convex constrained optimization problems in networks. We focus on the dual averaging-based algorithmic framework that is well-documented to be superior in handling constraints and complex communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Changxin Liu , Yang Shi , Huiping Li , Wenli Du

In this paper, we propose first-order feasible methods for difference-of-convex (DC) programs with smooth inequality and simple geometric constraints. Our strategy for maintaining feasibility of the iterates is based on a "retraction" idea…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Yongle Zhang , Guoyin Li , Ting Kei Pong , Shiqi Xu

The possibilities of exploiting the special structure of d.c. programs, which consist of optimizing the difference of convex functions, are currently more or less limited to variants of the DCA proposed by Pham Dinh Tao and Le Thi Hoai An…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Sebastian Banert , Radu Ioan Bot