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Projection Onto A Simplex

31 Jan 2011arXiv:1101.6081links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Yunmei Chen, Xiaojing Ye

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This mini-paper presents a fast and simple algorithm to compute the projection onto the canonical simplex ⁿ. Utilizing the Moreau's identity, we show that the problem is essentially a univariate minimization and the objective function is strictly convex and continuously differentiable. Moreover, it is shown that there are at most n candidates which can be computed explicitly, and the minimizer is the only one that falls into the correct interval.

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