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Polar Factor Beyond Newton-Schulz – Fast Matrix Inverse Square Root


A deep dive into computing the orthonormal polar factor (matrix sign function) for tall matrices using minimax polynomials, Jacobi preconditioning, and online certificates, moving beyond standard Newton-Schulz iterations.

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