 Proximal operator (source code)

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= Proximal operator
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For a proper lower-semicontinuous convex function $f$, the proximal operator is $\operatorname{prox}_f(y)=\arg\min_x\{f(x)+\lVert x-y\rVert^2/2\}$. Its optimality condition is $y-x\in\partial f(x)$.

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