HI Simon, I was wondering if you got anywhere with the faster Cholesky for 
Theano. I also use it a lot and have found it to be unstable on the GPU.
Paul

On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 11:45:36 AM UTC+1, Simon Ebner wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to do computations where I rely heavily on the Cholesky 
> decomposition. Writing a small benchmark for tensor.slinalg.Cholesky, I 
> noticed that the implementation is not as fast as I hoped. As far as I can 
> tell it is not optimized for GPUs yet but relies on the scipy 
> implementation?
> Doing a bit of a google seach I found several cuda implementations for 
> fast Cholesky decompositions on the GPU. Before I try to include that code 
> into my theano environment, could you let me know whether you decided not 
> to implement fast Cholesky decomposition on the GPU on purpose? 
> Furthermore, since I'm fairly new to theano I'm not completely confident 
> how to incorporate cuda code best into my existing theano code. Is the 
> sensible to create a custom OP with optimized C-Code?
>
> Best,
> Simon
>

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