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Returns the min of x and y (i.e. x < y ? x : y) element-wise.
meridian . backend . minimum (
x : Annotated [ Any , TV_Minimum_T ], y : Annotated [ Any , TV_Minimum_T ], name = None
) -> Annotated [ Any , TV_Minimum_T ]
Both inputs are number-type tensors (except complex). minimum expects that
both tensors have the same dtype.
Examples:
>>> x = tf . constant ([ 0. , 0. , 0. , 0. ])
>>> y = tf . constant ([ - 5. , - 2. , 0. , 3. ])
>>> tf . math . minimum ( x , y )
<tf . Tensor : shape = ( 4 ,), dtype = float32 , numpy = array ([ - 5. , - 2. , 0. , 0. ], dtype = float32 ) >
Note that minimum supports broadcast semantics for x and y.
>>> x = tf . constant ([ - 5. , 0. , 0. , 0. ])
>>> y = tf . constant ([ - 3. ])
>>> tf . math . minimum ( x , y )
<tf . Tensor : shape = ( 4 ,), dtype = float32 , numpy = array ([ - 5. , - 3. , - 3. , - 3. ], dtype = float32 ) >
The reduction version of this elementwise operation is tf.math.reduce_min
Args
x
A Tensor. Must be one of the following types: bfloat16, half, float32, float64, int8, uint8, int16, uint16, int32, uint32, int64, uint64.
y
A Tensor. Must have the same type as x.
name
A name for the operation (optional).
Returns
A Tensor. Has the same type as x.
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