On Derivative Notation, Part 1: The Problems
A collection of problems with standard derivative notation, from ambiguous variable references to inconsistent layout conventions.
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We explore how Slater's constraint qualification for strong duality can be generalized from its classical form to settings where the spaces involved are generic vector spaces, even those lacking topological structure.
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A closed-form expression for the proximity operator of , where is any real-valued matrix.
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