argmax

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noun

The argument of the maximum: the set of points of a given argument for which a given function attains its maximum value.

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nounargmax (plural argmaxes)

plural argmaxes

  1. mathematicsThe argument of the maximum: the set of points of a given argument for which a given function attains its maximum value.

    We study an optimization strategy that directly uses a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate of the argmax of the function.

    2015, Zi Wang, Bolei Zhou, Stefanie Jegelka, “Optimization as Estimation with Gaussian Processes in Bandit Settings”, in arXiv

Origin

Shortening.

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