# Pure-Julia Sparse Cholesky

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**Category:** Numerics\
**Created:** [August 1, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pure-julia-sparse-cholesky/131293 "2025-08-01T15:08:18Z")\
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There seems to be a [C++ implementation of unpivoted LDL here](https://bootstrapcollaboration.gitlab.io/elemental-web/documentation/dev/lapack_like/factor/LDL/dense/unpivoted.html). Perhaps this could be translated into a pure Julia implementation.

Alternatively,

> [@LDLt factorization for full matrices](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ldlt-factorization-for-full-matrices/75356/6):
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> If you don’t care about stability\*, just run `lu` without pivoting and extract the diagonal `D` from the diagonal of `U`. If it’s symmetric (and no pivoting is used), then `U = DL'`.

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