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This paper compares different exact approaches to solve the Discrete Ordered Median Problem (DOMP). In recent years, DOMP has been formulated using set packing constraints giving rise to one of its most promising formulations. The use of…
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Decentralized optimization is a powerful paradigm that finds applications in engineering and learning design. This work studies decentralized composite optimization problems with non-smooth regularization terms. Most existing gradient-based…