Question 1
Consider a vector such that . Let , where is the identity matrix. Which of the following is true?
is Hermitian and unitary.
is Hermitian but not unitary.
is unitary but not Hermitian.
is neither Hermitian nor unitary.
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is Hermitian and unitary.
Question 1 of 14 in the IIT Madras BS Machine Learning Foundations (MLF) Quiz 2 paper sat on 12 Apr 2026, in the January 2026 term (Machine Learning Foundations 06 Apr 26). It carries 4 marks.
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