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 Nick Sahinidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
 
-Python package for building sparse regression models to approximate the strong branching rule and using them for branching. These models are the lasso, and L0 and L1/L2 penalized linear regression.
+Python package to build sparse regression models of strong branching and use them for branching. These models are the lasso, and L0 and L1/L2 penalized linear regression.
 
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