最近看论文遇到一些小词,虽然不是特别重要,但也算是一种积累吧,先陆续整理出来^_^
A vector-valued function, also referred to as a vector function, is a mathematical function of one or more variables whose range is a set of multidimensional vectors or infinite-dimensional vectors. The input of a vector-valued function could be a scalar or a vector. The dimension of the domain is not defined by the dimension of the range.------From WIKIPEDIA
这是维基百科上的定义,我觉得比较绕的是两个range的含义:矢量方程是一种数学方程,它的变量是一些多维度或无穷维的矢量,输入可以是矢量也可以是标量,值域的维度并不由自变量的维度决定(不知道把range理解为自变量对不对?)
下面我说说这个方程的应用吧,文章是<Convex multi-task feature learning>