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Using positive spanning sets to achieve stationarity with the Boosted DC Algorithm

Using positive spanning sets to achieve stationarity with the Boosted DC Algorithm
Using positive spanning sets to achieve stationarity with the Boosted DC Algorithm
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 achieve a larger decrease of the objective value at each iteration. Thanks to this step, BDCA usually converges much faster than DCA in practice. The solutions found by DCA are guaranteed to be critical points of the problem, but these may not be local minima. Although BDCA tends to improve the objective value of the solutions it finds, these are frequently just critical
points as well. In this paper we combine BDCA with a simple Derivative-Free Optimization (DFO) algorithm to force the d-stationarity (lack of descent direction) at the point obtained. The potential of this approach is illustrated through some computational experiments on a Minimum-Sum-of-Squares clustering problem. Our numerical results demonstrate that the new method provides better solutions while still remains faster than DCA in the majority of
test cases.
Boosted difference of convex functions algorithm, Derivative-free optimization, Difference of convex functions, Positive spanning sets, d-Stationary points
2305-221X
363-376
Artacho, Francisco J. Aragón
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Campoy, Rubén
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Vuong, Phan Tu
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Artacho, Francisco J. Aragón
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Campoy, Rubén
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Vuong, Phan Tu
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Artacho, Francisco J. Aragón, Campoy, Rubén and Vuong, Phan Tu (2020) Using positive spanning sets to achieve stationarity with the Boosted DC Algorithm. Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, 48 (2), 363-376. (doi:10.1007/s10013-020-00400-8).

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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 achieve a larger decrease of the objective value at each iteration. Thanks to this step, BDCA usually converges much faster than DCA in practice. The solutions found by DCA are guaranteed to be critical points of the problem, but these may not be local minima. Although BDCA tends to improve the objective value of the solutions it finds, these are frequently just critical
points as well. In this paper we combine BDCA with a simple Derivative-Free Optimization (DFO) algorithm to force the d-stationarity (lack of descent direction) at the point obtained. The potential of this approach is illustrated through some computational experiments on a Minimum-Sum-of-Squares clustering problem. Our numerical results demonstrate that the new method provides better solutions while still remains faster than DCA in the majority of
test cases.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 February 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 March 2020
Published date: 1 June 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: We thank the referees for their constructive comments which helped us improve the presentation of the paper. The first author was supported by MINECO of Spain and ERDF of EU, as part of the Ramón y Cajal program (RYC-2013-13327) and the grants MTM2014-59179-C2-1-P and PGC2018-097960-B-C22. The second author was supported by MINECO of Spain and ESF of EU under the program “Ayudas para contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores 2015” (BES-2015-073360). The last author was supported by FWF (Austrian Science Fund), project M2499-N32 and Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) project 101.01-2019.320. Publisher Copyright: © 2020, The Author(s).
Keywords: Boosted difference of convex functions algorithm, Derivative-free optimization, Difference of convex functions, Positive spanning sets, d-Stationary points

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Local EPrints ID: 438483
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438483
ISSN: 2305-221X
PURE UUID: 170e0199-5948-4ae7-8c3a-53480f2ca466
ORCID for Phan Tu Vuong: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1474-994X

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2020 17:31
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 04:15

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Author: Francisco J. Aragón Artacho
Author: Rubén Campoy
Author: Phan Tu Vuong ORCID iD

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