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# scipy.sparse.linalg.inv

scipy.sparse.linalg.inv(A)

  Compute the inverse of a sparse matrix

  Parameters:
    A(M, M) sparse matrix

      square matrix to be inverted

  Returns:
    Ainv(M, M) sparse matrix

      inverse of A

  Notes

  This computes the sparse inverse of A. If the inverse of A is expected to be non-sparse, it will likely be faster to convert A to dense and use `scipy.linalg.inv`.

  Examples

      >>> from scipy.sparse import csc_matrix
      >>> from scipy.sparse.linalg import inv
      >>> A = csc_matrix([[1., 0.], [1., 2.]])
      >>> Ainv = inv(A)
      >>> Ainv
      <2x2 sparse matrix of type '<class 'numpy.float64'>'
          with 3 stored elements in Compressed Sparse Column format>
      >>> A.dot(Ainv)
      <2x2 sparse matrix of type '<class 'numpy.float64'>'
          with 2 stored elements in Compressed Sparse Column format>
      >>> A.dot(Ainv).toarray()
      array([[ 1.,  0.],
             [ 0.,  1.]])

  New in version 0.12.0.