[SciPy-user] coo_matrix, lapack, cvxopt

[Nathan Bell]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Nils Wagner
<nwagner at iam.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
> A symmetric positive definite matrix is required in case
> of CG.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_gradient_method
>

You can generally apply it to semi-definite problems too, but it
sometimes fails.

scipy.sparse.minres() is a better choice with comparable costs to cg()


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