Inverse matrix

[quantuminformation]

Do you guys plan to add Inverse matrix function or should we use an external lib.

I see there is a python eq

https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/matrix_inverse

Shall I look at doing a PR for it?

[caisq]

@quantuminformation It would be wonderful if you can contribute a matrix inverse implementation to tfjs-core. L-BFGS and some other applications are blocked on it. What algorithm are you considering?

[quantuminformation]

This would have to be shader code right?

Are there any atomic commits for other ops, so I can have a template?

[nsthorat]

If possible, you should try to do this as a combination of other ops. In general we want to keep number of shader programs small.

[caisq]

@quantuminformation Before we let you go ahead and do the coding, I want to ask: what's your use case of matrix inverse? Depending on the use case and whether the matrix at hand is symmetric, there might be more efficient ways to solve the problem that calculating the inverse.

[caisq]

@quantuminformation Another thought: as building blocks for an efficient inv() implementation (if it makes sense to do it), we should implement LU decomposition first.

[quantuminformation]

My use case was for showing how to do various matrix operations in tfjs, not an actual ML problem.