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We consider a class of difference-of-convex (DC) optimization problems whose objective is level-bounded and is the sum of a smooth convex function with Lipschitz gradient, a proper closed convex function and a continuous concave function.…
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…
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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…
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…
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