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coreset

coreset noun: a small set of points that approximates the shape of a larger point set, in the sense that applying some geometric measure to the two sets (such as their minimum bounding box volume) results in approximately equal numbers.

Noun

coreset (plural coresets)

  1. A small set of points that approximates the shape of a larger point set, in the sense that applying some geometric measure to the two sets (such as their minimum bounding box volume) results in approximately equal numbers.
    • This coreset based learning approach can be applied for both real-time learning of small, varied data and fast learning of big data..2015, Abhimanyu Dubey, Nikhil Naik, Dan Raviv, Rahul Sukthankar, Ramesh Raskar, “Coreset-Based Adaptive Tracking”, in arXiv

Forms of coreset

pluralcoresets

Origin of coreset

From core + set.

Questions about coreset

What does coreset mean?
Coreset means a small set of points that approximates the shape of a larger point set, in the sense that applying some geometric measure to the two sets (such as their minimum bounding box volume) results in approximately equal numbers.
What part of speech is coreset?
Coreset is a noun.
What is the plural of coreset?
The plural of coreset is coresets.

Words near coreset in the dictionary

  1. corer
  2. corers
  3. cores
  4. coresearcher
  5. coresearchers
  6. coreset
  7. coresets
  8. coreshine
  9. coreside
  10. coresidence
  11. coresidences

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