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This work is motivated by a gap in the functional data analysis literature, particularly in the context of neuroimaging, regarding the ability of functional models to robustly accommodate intra‐observation dependence. In response, we propose an M‐estimator based on generalized empirical likelihood for the varying‐coefficient model with a functional response. We develop statistical inference procedures, simultaneous confidence regions, and a global general linear hypothesis test for the model's functional coefficient. Our theoretical results establish the weak convergence of the log‐likelihood ratio process, a nonparametric version of Wilks' theorem for the log‐likelihood ratio, and asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator. Through a simulation study, we show that the proposed confidence sets have close‐to‐nominal coverage probabilities. In a real‐world application to a neuroimaging dataset, we show that mini‐mental state examination score and apolipoprotein E genotype have significant associations with fractional anisotropy, while associations with gender and age are only present at high quantile levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we propose a novel class of forward‐backward‐forward algorithms for solving monotone inclusion problems. Our approach incorporates a self‐adaptive technique to eliminate the need for explicitly selecting Lipschitz assumptions and utilizes two‐step inertial extrapolations to enhance the convergence rate of the algorithm. We establish a weak convergence theorem under mild assumptions. Furthermore, we conduct numerical tests on image deblurring and data classification as practical applications. The experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm surpasses some existing methods in the literature which shows its superior performance and effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]