A down-set in the Boolean lattice is a family closed under taking subsets. Restricting the minimization to down-sets cannot decrease the minimum from the edge-isoperimetric inequality in the discrete cube.
The coordinate subcube consisting of all subsets of a fixed -element set is itself a down-set and attains that minimum. Thus
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