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To explore convex optimization on Hadamard spaces, we consider an iteration in the style of a subgradient algorithm. Traditionally, such methods assume that the underlying spaces are manifolds and that the objectives are geodesically…

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…

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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…

Submodular functions, defined on continuous or discrete domains, arise in numerous applications. We study the minimization of the difference of two submodular (DS) functions, over both domains, extending prior work restricted to set…