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In this article, we study $gH$-subdifferential calculus of convex interval-valued functions (IVFs) and apply it in a nonconvex composite model of interval optimization problems (IOPs). It is found that the $gH$-directional derivative of…

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In this paper, we propose Riemannian conditional gradient methods for minimizing composite functions, i.e., those that can be expressed as the sum of a smooth function and a retraction-based convex function. We analyze the convergence of…

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In this paper some new properties and computational tools for finding KL-optimum designs are provided. KL-optimality is a general criterion useful to select the best experimental conditions to discriminate between statistical models. A…

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