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A specialized algorithm for quadratic optimization (QO, or, formerly, QP) with disjoint linear constraints is presented. In the considered class of problems, a subset of variables are subject to linear equality constraints, while variables…

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This paper proposes an efficient numerical optimization approach for solving dynamic optimal transport (DOT) problems on general smooth surfaces, computing both the quadratic Wasserstein distance and the associated transportation path.…

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This paper concerns the composite problem of minimizing the sum of a twice continuously differentiable function $f$ and a nonsmooth convex function. For this class of nonconvex and nonsmooth problems, by leveraging a practical inexactness…

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