Jérôme Bolte and Edouard Pauwels, from Toulouse School of Economics, and associated researchers to the Toulouse Mathematics Institute have recieved from SIAM the Lagrange Prize in continuous optimizationawarded every 3 years, for their paper Conservative set valued fields, automatic differentiation, stochastic gradient methods and deep learning published in Mathematical Programming in 2020.

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