Convergence Analysis of Algorithms for DC Programming

Abstract: We consider the minimization problems of the form $P(\varphi, g, h)$: $\min{f(x) = \varphi(x) + g(x) - h(x): x \in \Bbb R^n}$, where $\varphi$ is a differentiable function and $g$, $h$ are convex functions, and introduce iterative methods to finding a critical point of $f$ when $f$ is differentiable. We show that the point computed by proximal point algorithm at each iteration can be used to determine a descent direction for the objective function at this point. This algorithm can be considered as a combination of proximal point algorithm together with a linesearch step that uses this descent direction. We also study convergence results of these algorithms and the inertial proximal methods proposed by P.E. Maing$\acute{e}$ {\it et.al.} \cite{MM} under the main assumption that the objective function satisfies the Kurdika-{\L}ojasiewicz property.