jax.scipy.linalg.cho_factor¶

jax.scipy.linalg.cho_factor(a, lower=False, overwrite_a=False, check_finite=True)[source]¶

Compute the Cholesky decomposition of a matrix, to use in cho_solve

LAX-backend implementation of cho_factor().

Original docstring below.

Returns a matrix containing the Cholesky decomposition, A = L L* or A = U* U of a Hermitian positive-definite matrix a. The return value can be directly used as the first parameter to cho_solve.

Warning

The returned matrix also contains random data in the entries not used by the Cholesky decomposition. If you need to zero these entries, use the function cholesky instead.

Parameters

a ((M, M) array_like) – Matrix to be decomposed
lower (bool, optional) – Whether to compute the upper or lower triangular Cholesky factorization (Default: upper-triangular)
overwrite_a (bool, optional) – Whether to overwrite data in a (may improve performance)
check_finite (bool, optional) – Whether to check that the input matrix contains only finite numbers. Disabling may give a performance gain, but may result in problems (crashes, non-termination) if the inputs do contain infinities or NaNs.

Returns

c ((M, M) ndarray) – Matrix whose upper or lower triangle contains the Cholesky factor of a. Other parts of the matrix contain random data.
lower (bool) – Flag indicating whether the factor is in the lower or upper triangle