linalg op• Data kinds: matrix → table
• Call: import fullseye as fs; fs.ledger.mat_cholesky(a) (to call the implementation directly, import mathops; mathops.mat_cholesky(a); from the registry, opsmath.get("mat_cholesky"))
Cholesky factorisation A = L @ Lᵀ of a symmetric positive-definite matrix.
Half the work of LU and no pivoting needed. It is also the cheapest test for positive
definiteness: a covariance matrix that is not SPD (estimated from too few samples, or edited by hand) raises ValueError here instead of yielding a NaN later. Returns L (lower triangular, positive diagonal) and log_det = 2·Σ log L_ii (the stable way to get log|A| for Gaussians).
Every mathops op validates its input before computing (nothing slips through silently):
• complex input raises ValueError — coercing to float64 silently discards the imaginary part (numpy only emits a ComplexWarning and returns a plausible-looking wrong real number). State .real/.imag/abs() explicitly, or use complexops, which handles complex data.
• masked arrays with masked elements raise ValueError — the implicit conversion that peels off the mask and uses the raw values underneath is refused. Say explicitly whether to fill or to drop.
• NaN/Inf raises ValueError on every input (refused with the count stated — it propagates through the whole result).
• Shapes are strict: 1-D and 2-D are never implicitly promoted or broadcast (a matrix in a vector slot, or a vector in a matrix slot, raises ValueError; reshape explicitly).
• Size cap: ops that take a matrix, and the stat_histogram bins, raise ValueError beyond mathops.MAX_ELEMENTS (2^26 ≈ 67 million elements).
• blas_threads_and_memory — Why matrix decompositions are slow — BLAS threads, caches, memory layout
• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).
• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.
• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.
• (none yet)
table as input)dynsys_poincare_section · dwt_inverse · chebyshev_eval_nd
linalg)mat_solve · mat_lstsq · mat_svd · mat_eigh · mat_pinv · mat_cond · mat_lu · mat_qr
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