diff --git a/src/backends/reference/workloads/Minimum.hpp b/src/backends/reference/workloads/Minimum.hpp
index 2f3bdc1..0c05398 100644
--- a/src/backends/reference/workloads/Minimum.hpp
+++ b/src/backends/reference/workloads/Minimum.hpp
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 {
 
 template<typename T>
-struct minimum
+struct minimum : public std::binary_function<T, T, T>
 {
     T
     operator()(const T& input1, const T& input2) const