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Viterbi algorithm en · PROPN

Etymology

Named after Italian–American electrical engineer Andrew Viterbi (1935–), who proposed it in 1967 as a decoding algorithm for convolutional codes over noisy digital communication links.

Meanings

  1. A dynamic programming algorithm for finding the most likely sequence of hidden states (the Viterbi path) that results in a sequence of observed events.