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Nondifferentiable and Bilevel Optimization

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It is not accidental that we unify the exposition of these two areas of optimization theory in one chapter.

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Mordukhovich, B.S. (2018). Nondifferentiable and Bilevel Optimization. In: Variational Analysis and Applications. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92775-6_6

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