Best way to avoid singular matrix crashing optimization routine

General Usage
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I have a log likelihood function I’m trying to maximize and as part of the computation of the log likelihood I call a function ScalcAll which performs the following calcs, including inverting a matrix. up and down are data and the other inputs are the parameters for which I’m trying to find an an argmin numerically.

function ScalcAll(up::SVector{2,Float64},dn::SVector{2,Float64},rΣ,θ_0,θ_1,θ_2)
    ats = SVector{2, Float64}
    ats = [up'*(θ_0 + θ_1)*dn ; up'*(θ_0 + θ_2)*dn]
    0.5*ats'*((hcat(ats,ats)+rΣ)\ats)
end

The issue is that for some sets of parameter values, I get a singular matrix error, ending my optimization routine. Given that I have no apriori idea which parameter values might do this, what’s the best way to efficiently (speed-wise) avoid this crashing my program?

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T = eltype(rΣ) # make sure it's the type of the output
F = lu(hcat(ats, ats) + rΣ, check = false) # avoids the error
issuccess(F) || return T(Inf) # assuming minimization, this step will be rejected
return 0.5 * ats' * (F \ ats)

can also use cholesky instead of lu if the matrix is symmetric positive definite.