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removed clause about moore-penrose pseudoinverse
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Symmetric linear least squares solution

Given an overdetermined linear system $AX=Y$ with known $A$ and $Y$, is there an explicit formula for the least squares solution if $X$ is constrained to be symmetric ($X=X^T$)?

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