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We consider the problem of aggregating the elements of a possibly infinite dictionary for building a decision procedure that aims at minimizing a given criterion. Along with the dictionary, an independent identically distributed training…

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We establish sharp estimates for the convergence rate of the Kranosel'ski\v{\i}-Mann fixed point iteration in general normed spaces, and we use them to show that the asymptotic regularity bound recently proved in [11] (Israel Journal of…

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In this paper we present an inexact zeroth-order method suitable for the solution nonsmooth and nonconvex stochastic composite optimization problems, in which the objective is split into a real-valued Lipschitz continuous stochastic…

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