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Hadamard product (matrices)
Elementwise product of two matrices / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In mathematics, the Hadamard product (also known as the element-wise product, entrywise product[1]:āch. 5ā or Schur product[2]) is a binary operation that takes in two matrices of the same dimensions and returns a matrix of the multiplied corresponding elements. This operation can be thought as a "naive matrix multiplication" and is different from the matrix product. It is attributed to, and named after, either French mathematician Jacques Hadamard or German mathematician Issai Schur.
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The Hadamard product is associative and distributive. Unlike the matrix product, it is also commutative.[3]