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In this study, we present and analyze a novel variant of the stochastic gradient descent method, referred as Stochastic data-driven Bouligand Landweber iteration tailored for addressing the system of non-smooth ill-posed inverse problems.…

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The Lipschitz constant of the map between the input and output space represented by a neural network is a natural metric for assessing the robustness of the model. We present a new method to constrain the Lipschitz constant of dense deep…

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In this paper, we study inclusion problems where the involved operators may not be monotone in the classical sense. Specifically, we assume the operators to be generalized monotone, a weaker notion than classical monotonicity. This allows…

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A framework previously introduced in [3] for solving a sequence of stochastic optimization problems with bounded changes in the minimizers is extended and applied to machine learning problems such as regression and classification. The…

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