Dear Mladen,

Was there a resolution to this thread?  A simpler related question is that 
you have a graph Laplacian for a connected graph.  Then you know exactly 
what the null space is.  Using L \ (b - mean(b)) throws the error 
" ArgumentError: matrix has one or more zero pivots" where pinv works but 
is slow because it doesn't use the sparsity.

I need this for a graph structured normal means problem, which is super 
important.

--James

On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 12:27:14 PM UTC-7, Mladen Kolar wrote:
>
> Dear Dominique,
>
> I am not sure that "incomplete Cholesky decomposition" is standard 
> terminology. It is used in John Shawe-Taylor's book on kernel methods for 
> pattern analysis.
>
> What it means is the following, instead of using the Cholesky 
> decomposition A = R'R where R is upper triangular matrix, one approximates 
> A as P'*P where P = R[1:T, :] and T is the rank of approximation. Again, 
> the idea is that one does not compute full Cholesky, but greedily 
> approximates A.
>
> Thanks, Mladen
>
> On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 9:30:54 PM UTC-5, Dominique Orban wrote:
>>
>> What do you mean by "incomplete Cholesky"? Could you explain how that 
>> would solve your system?
>
>

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