A hybrid Bregman alternating direction method of multipliers for the linearly constrained difference-of-convex problems

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a hybrid Bregman alternating direction method of multipliers for solving the linearly constrained difference-of-convex problems whose objective can be written as the sum of a smooth convex function with Lipschitz gradient, a proper closed convex function and a continuous concave function. At each iteration, we choose either subgradient step or proximal step to evaluate the concave part. Moreover, the extrapolation technique was utilized to compute the nonsmooth convex part. We prove that the sequence generated by the proposed method converges to a critical point of the considered problem under the assumption that the potential function is a Kurdyka–Łojasiewicz function. One notable advantage of the proposed method is that the convergence can be guaranteed without the Lischitz continuity of the gradient function of concave part. Preliminary numerical experiments show the efficiency of the proposed method.