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MATLAB svd

The svd function calculates the SVD decomposition of any matrix.

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Usage

To solve the problem Ax = b for any size matrix A, try:

[U, S, V] = svd(A);
S_inv = diag(1./diag(S));
x = V * S_inv * U' * b;

This is effectively what pinv does.

To calculate the rank k approximation of a matrix A, try:

[U, S, V] = svd(A);
U_k = U(:, 1:k)
S_k = S(1:k, 1:k)
V_k = V(:, 1:k)
A_k = U_k * S_k * V_k'

The original A can be returned by U*S*V'.

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+To calculate the rank ''k'' [[LinearAlgebra/LowRankApproximation|approximation]] of a matrix `A`, try:

{{{
[U, S, V] = svd(A);
U_k = U(:, 1:k)
S_k = S(1:k, 1:k)
V_k = V(:, 1:k)
A_k = U_k * S_k * V_k'
}}}