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$$ \min_{x \in \mathbb{R}^d} \quad \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^n \big( f_i(x) + g_i(x) \big), $$ where each $f_i: \mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a smooth loss ...