Nonconvex penalization using laplace exponents and concave conjugates

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 602-610

  Zhang, Zhihua ^a   Tu, Bojun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Indexed keywords

COMPOUND POISSON; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; KL DISTANCE; NONCONVEX; NONCONVEX PENALTIES; PENALTY FUNCTION; SUBORDINATORS;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84877728082     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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