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argmaxes

argmaxes is the plural of argmax.

Meaning of argmax

Noun

argmax (plural argmaxes)

  1. The 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

Questions about argmaxes

What is argmaxes the plural of?
Argmaxes is the plural of argmax.

Words near argmaxes in the dictionary

  1. argle-bargles
  2. argle-bargling
  3. arglist
  4. arglists
  5. argmax
  6. argmaxes
  7. Argnod
  8. Argo
  9. Argo Navis
  10. Argoan
  11. Argobba

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