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This paper introduces a Multi-Strategy Improved Black Widow Optimization Algorithm (MSBWOA), designed to enhance the performance of the standard Black Widow Algorithm (BW) in solving complex optimization problems. The proposed algorithm…
The ``fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm'', a.k.a. FISTA, is one of the most widely used algorithms in the literature. However, despite its optimal theoretical $O(1/k^2)$ convergence rate guarantee, oftentimes in practice its…
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