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Mathematical ordering with upper bounds

In mathematics, a directed set is a preordered set in which every finite subset has an upper bound. In other words, it is a non-empty preordered set such that for any and in there exists in with and. A directed set's preorder is called a direction. Wikipedia →

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  4. Read the landmark paper: Informed training set design enables efficient machine learning-assisted directed protein evolutionCited 227 times
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Noun A set equipped with a preorder such that for any two elements a and b there is an element c such that a ≤ c and b ≤ c.

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