argmax
English
Etymology
Shortening.
Noun
argmax (plural argmaxes)
- (mathematics) The argument of the maximum: the set of points of a given argument for which a given function attains its maximum value.
- 2015, Zi Wang, Bolei Zhou, Stefanie Jegelka, “Optimization as Estimation with Gaussian Processes in Bandit Settings”, in arXiv:
- We study an optimization strategy that directly uses a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate of the argmax of the function.
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