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Smoothed merit function
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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.

``merit1_smooth``: based on smoothed :math:`\ell_1`  norm
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