EUROPT 2025
Abstract Submission

618. Douglas--Rachford-based splitting for generalized DC programming with applications to signal recovery

Invited abstract in session MC-9: Generalized convexity and monotonicity 2, stream Generalized convexity and monotonicity.

Monday, 14:00-16:00
Room: B100/8013

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Minh N. Dao
RMIT University

Abstract

The difference-of-convex (DC) program is an important model in nonconvex optimization due to its structure, which encompasses a wide range of practical applications. In this work, we aim to tackle a generalized class of DC programs, where the objective function is formed by summing a possibly nonsmooth nonconvex function and a differentiable nonconvex function with Lipschitz continuous gradient, and then subtracting a nonsmooth continuous convex function. We develop a proximal splitting algorithm that utilizes proximal evaluation for the concave part and Douglas--Rachford splitting for the remaining components. The algorithm guarantees subsequential convergence to a critical point of the problem model. Under the widely used Kurdyka--Ɓojasiewicz property, we establish global convergence of the full sequence of iterates and derive convergence rates for both the iterates and the objective function values, without assuming the concave part is differentiable. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested on signal recovery problems with a nonconvex regularization term and exhibits competitive results compared to notable algorithms in the literature on both synthetic data and real-world data.

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Status: accepted


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