minorization

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noun

The action of forming a lower bound

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Meanings

nounminorization (countable and uncountable, plural minorizations)

plural minorizations

  1. countableuncountablemathematicsThe action of forming a lower bound

    Then, using minorization maximization (MM) algorithm based on an affine approximation, we obtain a solution for the reformulated problem.

    2016, Jinwoo Kim, Wan Choi, Hyuncheol Park, “Beamforming for Full-Duplex Multiuser MIMO Systems”, in arXiv

Origin

From minorize + -ation.

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