Proper handling of continuous variables is crucial in healthcare research, for example, within regression modelling for descriptive, explanatory, or predictive purposes. However, inadequate methods ...

This paper considers a class of distributed quadratic optimization problem under an undirected and connected graph. Different from most of the existing distributed optimization works that consider the ...

In this paper, based on the factorization framework, we propose a novel robust matrix completion scheme via using the truncated-quadratic loss function, which is non-convex and non-smooth, and ...

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