tf.linalg.trace

Compute the trace of a tensor x.

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Main aliases

`tf.trace`

Compat aliases for migration

See Migration guide for more details.

tf.compat.v1.linalg.trace, tf.compat.v1.trace, `tf.compat.v2.linalg.trace`

tf.linalg.trace(
    x, name=None
)

trace(x) returns the sum along the main diagonal of each inner-most matrix in x. If x is of rank k with shape [I, J, K, ..., L, M, N], then output is a tensor of rank k-2 with dimensions [I, J, K, ..., L] where

output[i, j, k, ..., l] = trace(x[i, j, i, ..., l, :, :])

For example:

x = tf.constant([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
tf.linalg.trace(x)  # 5

x = tf.constant([[1, 2, 3],
                 [4, 5, 6],
                 [7, 8, 9]])
tf.linalg.trace(x)  # 15

x = tf.constant([[[1, 2, 3],
                  [4, 5, 6],
                  [7, 8, 9]],
                 [[-1, -2, -3],
                  [-4, -5, -6],
                  [-7, -8, -9]]])
tf.linalg.trace(x)  # [15, -15]

Args
x	tensor.
name	A name for the operation (optional).

Returns
The trace of input tensor.