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# merit2_smooth

Smoothed merit function

Specification

- Alias: None

- Arguments: 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

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