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merit2_smooth


Smoothed merit function

Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): none

Description

APPS solves nonlinearly constrained problems by solving a sequence of linearly constrained merit function-base subproblems. There are several exact and smoothed exact penalty functions.

merit2_smooth: based on smoothed $ \ell_2$ norm