[SciPy-user] Invert of a sparse matrix

[Robert Cimrman]

Nils Wagner wrote:
> Sam frizou wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a trick for computing the invert of a square SPARSE matrix ?
>>
>> Thanks
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> You can solve n equations where the i-th rhs is a unit-vector e_i in the
> corresponding direction.

and for this you should first perform LU factorization and then use the
pre-factorized matrix for the multiple-rhs problem, see scipy.linsolve docs.

r.