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We consider hk to be either Eq. 4 (proximal point), Eq. 9 (proximal gradient), or Eq. In the appendix, we conduct an experiment with an extremely7 high condition number (much higher than what is traditionally used for these problems). We agree that the clarity of our paper is subject to improvement and we thank the reviewer for his12 suggestions,whichwewilltakeintoaccount,ifthepaperisaccepted. NIPS 2014.", which displays moderate gains on text classification tasks. We agree that direct acceleration methods are appealing.