min-entropy

noun

The smallest of the Rényi family of entropies, corresponding to the most conservative way of measuring the unpredictability of a set of outcomes, as the negative logarithm of the probability of the most likely outcome.

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Meanings

nounmin-entropy (countable and uncountable, plural min-entropies)

plural min-entropies

  1. countableuncountablecomputingThe smallest of the Rényi family of entropies, corresponding to the most conservative way of measuring the unpredictability of a set of outcomes, as the negative logarithm of the probability of the most likely outcome.

Origin

From minimum entropy.

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