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Visualization of the SVD of a two-dimensional, real shearing matrix M. First, we see the unit disc in blue together with the two canonical unit vectors. We then see the action of M, which distorts the disk to an ellipse. The SVD decomposes M into three simple transformations: an initial rotation V^*, a scaling Σ along the coordinate axes, and a final rotation U. The lengths σ₁ and σ₂ of the semi-axes of the ellipse are the singular values of M.

In linear algebra, the singular value decomposition (SVD) is a factorization of a real or complex matrix, with many useful applications in signal processing and statistics.

Formally, the singular value decomposition of an m×n real or complex matrix M is a factorization of the form

$\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$

where U is a m×m real or complex unitary matrix, Σ is an m×n rectangular diagonal matrix with nonnegative real numbers on the diagonal, and V* (the conjugate transpose of V, or simply the transpose of V if V is real) is an n×n real or complex unitary matrix. The diagonal entries Σ_i,i of Σ are known as the singular values of M. The m columns of U and the n columns of V are called the left-singular vectors and right-singular vectors of M, respectively.

The singular value decomposition and the eigendecomposition are closely related. Namely:

• The left-singular vectors of M are eigenvectors of MM*.
• The right-singular vectors of M are eigenvectors of M*M.
• The non-zero singular values of M (found on the diagonal entries of Σ) are the square roots of the non-zero eigenvalues of both M*M and MM*.

Applications which employ the SVD include computing the pseudoinverse, least squares fitting of data, matrix approximation, and determining the rank, range and null space of a matrix.

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Statement of the theorem

Suppose M is an m×n matrix whose entries come from the field K, which is either the field of real numbers or the field of complex numbers. Then there exists a factorization of the form

$\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$

where U is an m×m unitary matrix (orthogonal matrix if "K" is real) over K, the matrix Σ is an m×n diagonal matrix with nonnegative real numbers on the diagonal, and the n×n unitary matrix V* denotes the conjugate transpose of the n×n unitary matrix V. Such a factorization is called a singular value decomposition of M.

The diagonal entries $\sigma _{i}$ of Σ are known as the singular values of M. A common convention is to list the singular values in descending order. In this case, the diagonal matrix Σ is uniquely determined by M (though the matrices U and V are not).

Intuitive interpretations

Rotation, scaling

In the special but common case in which M is just an m×m square matrix with positive determinant whose entries are plain real numbers, then U, V*, and Σ are m×m matrices of real numbers as well, Σ can be regarded as a scaling matrix, and U and V* can be viewed as rotation matrices.

If the above mentioned conditions are met, the expression $\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}\,$ can thus be intuitively interpreted as a composition (or sequence) of three geometrical transformations: a rotation, a scaling, and another rotation. For instance, the figure above explains how a shear matrix can be described as such a sequence.

Singular values as semiaxes of an ellipse or ellipsoid

As shown in the figure, the singular values can be interpreted as the semiaxes of an ellipse in 2D. This concept can be generalized to n-dimensional Euclidean space, with the singular values of any n×n square matrix being viewed as the semiaxes of an n-dimensional ellipsoid. See below for further details.

The columns of U and V are orthonormal bases

Since U and V* are unitary, the columns of each of them form a set of orthonormal vectors, which can be regarded as basis vectors. By the definition of a unitary matrix, the same is true for their conjugate transposes U* and V. In short, the columns of U, U*, V, and V* are orthonormal bases.

Example

Consider the 4×5 matrix

$\mathbf {M} ={\begin{bmatrix}1&0&0&0&2\\0&0&3&0&0\\0&0&0&0&0\\0&4&0&0&0\end{bmatrix}}$

A singular value decomposition of this matrix is given by $\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$

${\begin{aligned}\mathbf {U} &={\begin{bmatrix}0&0&1&0\\0&1&0&0\\0&0&0&-1\\1&0&0&0\end{bmatrix}}\\{\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}&={\begin{bmatrix}4&0&0&0&0\\0&3&0&0&0\\0&0&{\sqrt {5}}&0&0\\0&0&0&0&0\end{bmatrix}}\\\mathbf {V} ^{*}&={\begin{bmatrix}0&1&0&0&0\\0&0&1&0&0\\{\sqrt {0.2}}&0&0&0&{\sqrt {0.8}}\\0&0&0&1&0\\-{\sqrt {0.8}}&0&0&0&{\sqrt {0.2}}\end{bmatrix}}\end{aligned}}$

Notice ${\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}$ is zero outside of the diagonal and one diagonal element is zero. Furthermore, because the matrices $\mathbf {U}$ and $\mathbf {V} ^{*}$ are unitary, multiplying by their respective conjugate transposes yields identity matrices, as shown below. In this case, because $\mathbf {U}$ and $\mathbf {V} ^{*}$ are real valued, they each are an orthogonal matrix.

${\begin{aligned}\mathbf {U} \mathbf {U} ^{*}&={\begin{bmatrix}0&0&1&0\\0&1&0&0\\0&0&0&-1\\1&0&0&0\end{bmatrix}}\cdot {\begin{bmatrix}0&0&0&1\\0&1&0&0\\1&0&0&0\\0&0&-1&0\end{bmatrix}}\\&={\begin{bmatrix}1&0&0&0\\0&1&0&0\\0&0&1&0\\0&0&0&1\end{bmatrix}}\equiv \mathbf {I} _{4}\end{aligned}}$

and

${\begin{aligned}\mathbf {V} \mathbf {V} ^{*}&={\begin{bmatrix}0&0&{\sqrt {0.2}}&0&-{\sqrt {0.8}}\\1&0&0&0&0\\0&1&0&0&0\\0&0&0&1&0\\0&0&{\sqrt {0.8}}&0&{\sqrt {0.2}}\end{bmatrix}}\cdot {\begin{bmatrix}0&1&0&0&0\\0&0&1&0&0\\{\sqrt {0.2}}&0&0&0&{\sqrt {0.8}}\\0&0&0&1&0\\-{\sqrt {0.8}}&0&0&0&{\sqrt {0.2}}\end{bmatrix}}\\&={\begin{bmatrix}1&0&0&0&0\\0&1&0&0&0\\0&0&1&0&0\\0&0&0&1&0\\0&0&0&0&1\end{bmatrix}}\equiv \mathbf {I} _{5}\end{aligned}}$

This particular singular value decomposition is not unique. Choosing $V$ such that

$\mathbf {V} ^{*}={\begin{bmatrix}0&1&0&0&0\\0&0&1&0&0\\{\sqrt {0.2}}&0&0&0&{\sqrt {0.8}}\\{\sqrt {0.4}}&0&0&{\sqrt {0.5}}&-{\sqrt {0.1}}\\-{\sqrt {0.4}}&0&0&{\sqrt {0.5}}&{\sqrt {0.1}}\end{bmatrix}}$

is also a valid singular value decomposition.

Singular values, singular vectors, and their relation to the SVD

A non-negative real number σ is a singular value for M if and only if there exist unit-length vectors u in K^m and v in Kⁿ such that

$\mathbf {M} {\vec {v}}=\sigma {\vec {u}}\,{\text{ and }}\mathbf {M} ^{*}{\vec {u}}=\sigma {\vec {v}}$

The vectors u and v are called left-singular and right-singular vectors for σ, respectively.

In any singular value decomposition

$\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$

the diagonal entries of Σ are equal to the singular values of M. The columns of U and V are, respectively, left- and right-singular vectors for the corresponding singular values. Consequently, the above theorem implies that:

• An m × n matrix M has at most p = min(m,n) distinct singular values.
• It is always possible to find an orthogonal basis U for K^m consisting of left-singular vectors of M.
• It is always possible to find an orthogonal basis V for Kⁿ consisting of right-singular vectors of M.

A singular value for which we can find two left (or right) singular vectors that are linearly independent is called degenerate.

Non-degenerate singular values always have unique left- and right-singular vectors, up to multiplication by a unit-phase factor e^iφ (for the real case up to sign). Consequently, if all singular values of M are non-degenerate and non-zero, then its singular value decomposition is unique, up to multiplication of a column of U by a unit-phase factor and simultaneous multiplication of the corresponding column of V by the same unit-phase factor.

Degenerate singular values, by definition, have non-unique singular vectors. Furthermore, if u₁ and u₂ are two left-singular vectors which both correspond to the singular value σ, then any normalized linear combination of the two vectors is also a left-singular vector corresponding to the singular value σ. The similar statement is true for right-singular vectors. Consequently, if M has degenerate singular values, then its singular value decomposition is not unique.

Applications of the SVD

Pseudoinverse

The singular value decomposition can be used for computing the pseudoinverse of a matrix. Indeed, the pseudoinverse of the matrix M with singular value decomposition $\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$ is

$\mathbf {M} ^{+}=\mathbf {V} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}^{+}\mathbf {U} ^{*}$

where Σ⁺ is the pseudoinverse of Σ, which is formed by replacing every non-zero diagonal entry by its reciprocal and transposing the resulting matrix. The pseudoinverse is one way to solve linear least squares problems.

Solving homogeneous linear equations

A set of homogeneous linear equations can be written as $\mathbf {A} {\vec {x}}=\mathbf {0}$ for a matrix $\mathbf {A}$ and vector ${\vec {x}}$. A typical situation is that $\mathbf {A}$ is known and a non-zero ${\vec {x}}$ is to be determined which satisfies the equation. Such an ${\vec {x}}$ belongs to $\mathbf {A}$'s null space and is sometimes called a (right) null vector of $\mathbf {A}$. The vector ${\vec {x}}$ can be characterized as a right-singular vector corresponding to a singular value of $\mathbf {A}$ that is zero. This observation means that if $\mathbf {A}$ is a square matrix and has no vanishing singular value, the equation has no non-zero ${\vec {x}}$ as a solution. It also means that if there are several vanishing singular values, any linear combination of the corresponding right-singular vectors is a valid solution. Analogously to the definition of a (right) null vector, a non-zero ${\vec {x}}$ satisfying ${\vec {x^{*}}}\mathbf {A} =\mathbf {0}$, with ${\vec {x^{*}}}$ denoting the conjugate transpose of ${\vec {x}}$, is called a left null vector of $\mathbf {A}$.

Total least squares minimization

A total least squares problem refers to determining the vector $\mathbf {x}$ which minimizes the 2-norm of a vector $\mathbf {A} \,\mathbf {x}$ under the constraint $\|\mathbf {x} \|=1$. The solution turns out to be the right-singular vector of $\mathbf {A}$ corresponding to the smallest singular value.

Range, null space and rank

Another application of the SVD is that it provides an explicit representation of the range and null space of a matrix M. The right-singular vectors corresponding to vanishing singular values of M span the null space of M. E.g., the null space is spanned by the last two columns of $\mathbf {V}$ in the above example. The left-singular vectors corresponding to the non-zero singular values of M span the range of M. As a consequence, the rank of M equals the number of non-zero singular values which is the same as the number of non-zero diagonal elements in ${\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}$.

In numerical linear algebra the singular values can be used to determine the effective rank of a matrix, as rounding error may lead to small but non-zero singular values in a rank deficient matrix.

Low-rank matrix approximation

Some practical applications need to solve the problem of approximating a matrix $\mathbf {M}$ with another matrix ${\tilde {\mathbf {M} }}$, said truncated, which has a specific rank $r$. In the case that the approximation is based on minimizing the Frobenius norm of the difference between $\mathbf {M}$ and ${\tilde {\mathbf {M} }}$ under the constraint that $\operatorname {rank} \left({\tilde {\mathbf {M} }}\right)=r$ it turns out that the solution is given by the SVD of $\mathbf {M}$, namely

${\tilde {\mathbf {M} }}=\mathbf {U} {\tilde {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$

where ${\tilde {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}}$ is the same matrix as ${\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}$ except that it contains only the $r$ largest singular values (the other singular values are replaced by zero). This is known as the Eckart–Young theorem, as it was proved by those two authors in 1936 (although it was later found to have been known to earlier authors; see Template:Harvnb).

Separable models

The SVD can be thought of as decomposing a matrix into a weighted, ordered sum of separable matrices. By separable, we mean that a matrix $\mathbf {A}$ can be written as an outer product of two vectors $\mathbf {A} =\mathbf {u} \otimes \mathbf {v}$, or, in coordinates, $\mathbf {A(i,j)} =\mathbf {u} (i)\mathbf {v} (j)$. Specifically, the matrix M can be decomposed as:

$\mathbf {M} =\sum _{i}\mathbf {A} _{i}=\sum _{i}\sigma _{i}U_{i}\otimes V_{i}^{\dagger }$

Here $U_{i}$ and $V_{i}$ are the i^th columns of the corresponding SVD matrices, $\sigma _{i}$ are the ordered singular values, and each $\mathbf {A} _{i}$ is separable. The SVD can be used to find the decomposition of an image processing filter into separable horizontal and vertical filters. Note that the number of non-zero $\sigma _{i}$ is exactly the rank of the matrix.

Separable models often arise in biological systems, and the SVD decomposition is useful to analyze such systems. For example, some visual area V1 simple cells' receptive fields can be well described by a Gabor filter in the space domain multiplied by a modulation function in the time domain. Thus, given a linear filter evaluated through, for example, reverse correlation, one can rearrange the two spatial dimensions into one dimension, thus yielding a two dimensional filter (space, time) which can be decomposed through SVD. The first column of U in the SVD decomposition is then a Gabor while the first column of V represents the time modulation (or vice-versa). One may then define an index of separability, $\alpha ={\frac {1}{\sum _{i}\sigma _{i}^{2}}}\sigma _{1}^{2}$, which is the fraction of the power in the matrix M which is accounted for by the first separable matrix in the decomposition.

Nearest orthogonal matrix

It is possible to use the SVD of $\mathbf {A}$ to determine the orthogonal matrix $\mathbf {R}$ closest to $\mathbf {A}$. The closeness of fit is measured by the Frobenius norm of $\mathbf {R} -\mathbf {A}$. The solution is the product $\mathbf {U} \mathbf {V} ^{*}$. This intuitively makes sense because an orthogonal matrix would have the decomposition $\mathbf {U} \mathbf {I} \mathbf {V} ^{*}$ where $\mathbf {I}$ is the identity matrix, so that if $\mathbf {A} =\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$ then the product $\mathbf {A} =\mathbf {U} \mathbf {V} ^{*}$ amounts to replacing the singular values with ones.

A similar problem, with interesting applications in shape analysisTemplate:Disambiguation needed, is the orthogonal Procrustes problem, which consists of finding an orthogonal matrix $\mathbf {R}$ which most closely maps $\mathbf {A}$ to $\mathbf {B}$. Specifically,

$\mathbf {R} =\arg \min _{\boldsymbol {\Omega }}\|\mathbf {A} {\boldsymbol {\Omega }}-\mathbf {B} \|_{F}\quad \mathrm {subject\ to} \quad {\boldsymbol {\Omega }}^{T}{\boldsymbol {\Omega }}=\mathbf {I}$

where $\|\ldots \|_{F}$ denotes the Frobenius norm.

This problem is equivalent to finding the nearest orthogonal matrix to a given matrix $\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {A} ^{T}\mathbf {B}$.

The Kabsch algorithm

The Kabsch algorithm (called Wahba's problem in other fields) uses SVD to compute the optimal rotation (with respect to least-squares minimization) that will align a set of points with a corresponding set of points. It is used, among other applications, to compare the structures of molecules.

Signal processing

The SVD and pseudoinverse have been successfully applied to signal processing and big data, e.g., in genomic signal processing.

Other examples

The SVD is also applied extensively to the study of linear inverse problems, and is useful in the analysis of regularization methods such as that of Tikhonov. It is widely used in statistics where it is related to principal component analysis and to Correspondence analysis, and in signal processing and pattern recognition. It is also used in output-only modal analysis, where the non-scaled mode shapes can be determined from the singular vectors. Yet another usage is latent semantic indexing in natural language text processing.

The SVD also plays a crucial role in the field of quantum information, in a form often referred to as the Schmidt decomposition. Through it, states of two quantum systems are naturally decomposed, providing a necessary and sufficient condition for them to be entangled: if the rank of the $\mathbf {\Sigma }$ matrix is larger than one.

One application of SVD to rather large matrices is in numerical weather prediction, where Lanczos methods are used to estimate the most linearly quickly growing few perturbations to the central numerical weather prediction over a given initial forward time period; i.e., the singular vectors corresponding to the largest singular values of the linearized propagator for the global weather over that time interval. The output singular vectors in this case are entire weather systems. These perturbations are then run through the full nonlinear model to generate an ensemble forecast, giving a handle on some of the uncertainty that should be allowed for around the current central prediction.

Another application of SVD for daily life is that point in perspective view can be unprojected in a photo using the calculated SVD matrix, this application leads to measuring length (a.k.a. the distance of two unprojected points in perspective photo) by marking out the 4 corner points of known-size object in a single photo. PRuler is a demo to implement this application by taking a photo of a regular credit card.

SVD has also been applied to reduced order modelling. The aim of reduced order modelling is to reduce the number of degrees of freedom in a complex system which is to be modelled. SVD was coupled with radial basis functions to interploate solutions to three dimensional unsteady flow problems

SVD has also been applied in inverse problem theory. An important application is constructing computational models of oil reservoirs

Relation to eigenvalue decomposition

The singular value decomposition is very general in the sense that it can be applied to any m × n matrix whereas eigenvalue decomposition can only be applied to certain classes of square matrices. Nevertheless, the two decompositions are related.

Given an SVD of M, as described above, the following two relations hold:

${\begin{aligned}\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M} &=\mathbf {V} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma ^{*}}}\mathbf {U} ^{*}\,\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}=\mathbf {V} ({\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}^{*}{\boldsymbol {\Sigma }})\mathbf {V} ^{*}\\\mathbf {M} \mathbf {M} ^{*}&=\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}\,\mathbf {V} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}^{*}\mathbf {U} ^{*}=\mathbf {U} ({\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}{\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}^{*})\mathbf {U} ^{*}\end{aligned}}$

The right-hand sides of these relations describe the eigenvalue decompositions of the left-hand sides. Consequently:

• The columns of V (right-singular vectors) are eigenvectors of $\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M}$.
• The columns of U (left-singular vectors) are eigenvectors of $\mathbf {M} \mathbf {M} ^{*}$.
• The non-zero elements of Σ (non-zero singular values) are the square roots of the non-zero eigenvalues of $\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M}$ or $\mathbf {M} \mathbf {M} ^{*}$.

In the special case that M is a normal matrix, which by definition must be square, the spectral theorem says that it can be unitarily diagonalized using a basis of eigenvectors, so that it can be written $\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} \mathbf {D} \mathbf {U} ^{*}$ for a unitary matrix U and a diagonal matrix D. When M is also positive semi-definite, the decomposition $\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} \mathbf {D} \mathbf {U} ^{*}$ is also a singular value decomposition.

However, the eigenvalue decomposition and the singular value decomposition differ for all other matrices M: the eigenvalue decomposition is $\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} \mathbf {D} \mathbf {U} ^{-1}$ where U is not necessarily unitary and D is not necessarily positive semi-definite, while the SVD is $\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$ where Σ is a diagonal positive semi-definite, and U and V are unitary matrices that are not necessarily related except through the matrix M.

Existence

An eigenvalue λ of a matrix M is characterized by the algebraic relation M u = λ u. When M is Hermitian, a variational characterization is also available. Let M be a real n × n symmetric matrix. Define f:Rⁿ → R by f(x) = x^T M x. By the extreme value theorem, this continuous function attains a maximum at some u when restricted to the closed unit sphere {||x|| ≤ 1}. By the Lagrange multipliers theorem, u necessarily satisfies

$\nabla f=\nabla {\vec {x}}^{T}\mathbf {M} {\vec {x}}=\lambda \cdot \nabla {\vec {x}}^{T}{\vec {x}}$

where the nabla symbol, $\nabla$, is the del operator.

A short calculation shows the above leads to M u = λ u (symmetry of M is needed here). Therefore λ is the largest eigenvalue of M. The same calculation performed on the orthogonal complement of u gives the next largest eigenvalue and so on. The complex Hermitian case is similar; there f(x) = x* M x is a real-valued function of 2n real variables.

Singular values are similar in that they can be described algebraically or from variational principles. Although, unlike the eigenvalue case, Hermiticity, or symmetry, of M is no longer required.

This section gives these two arguments for existence of singular value decomposition.

Based on the spectral theorem

Let M be an m-by-n matrix with complex entries. M*M is positive semidefinite and Hermitian. By the spectral theorem, there exists a unitary n-by-n matrix V such that

$\mathbf {V} ^{*}\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M} \mathbf {V} ={\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {D} &0\\0&0\end{bmatrix}}$

where D is diagonal and positive definite. Partition V appropriately so we can write

${\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {V} _{1}^{*}\\\mathbf {V} _{2}^{*}\end{bmatrix}}\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M} {\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {V} _{1}&\mathbf {V} _{2}\end{bmatrix}}={\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {V} _{1}^{*}\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M} \mathbf {V} _{1}&\mathbf {V} _{1}^{*}\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M} \mathbf {V} _{2}\\\mathbf {V} _{2}^{*}\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M} \mathbf {V} _{1}&\mathbf {V} _{2}^{*}\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M} \mathbf {V} _{2}\end{bmatrix}}={\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {D} &0\\0&0\end{bmatrix}}$

Therefore V₁*M*MV₁ = D and V₂*M*MV₂ = 0. The latter means MV₂ = 0.

Also, since V is unitary, V₁*V₁ = I, V₂*V₂ = I and V₁V₁* + V₂V₂* = I.

Define

$\mathbf {U} _{1}=\mathbf {M} \mathbf {V} _{1}\mathbf {D} ^{-{\frac {1}{2}}}$

Then

$\mathbf {U} _{1}\mathbf {D} ^{\frac {1}{2}}\mathbf {V} _{1}^{*}=\mathbf {M} \mathbf {V} _{1}\mathbf {D} ^{-{\frac {1}{2}}}\mathbf {D} ^{\frac {1}{2}}\mathbf {V} _{1}^{*}=\mathbf {M}$

We see that this is almost the desired result, except that U₁ and V₁ are not unitary in general, but merely isometries. To finish the argument, one simply has to "fill out" these matrices to obtain unitaries. For example, one can choose U₂ such that

$\mathbf {U} ={\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {U} _{1}&\mathbf {U} _{2}\end{bmatrix}}$

is unitary.

Define

${\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}={\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {D} ^{\frac {1}{2}}&0\\0&0\end{bmatrix}}\\0\end{bmatrix}}$

where extra zero rows are added or removed to make the number of zero rows equal the number of columns of U₂. Then

${\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {U} _{1}&\mathbf {U} _{2}\end{bmatrix}}{\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {} D^{\frac {1}{2}}&0\\0&0\end{bmatrix}}\\0\end{bmatrix}}{\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {V} _{1}&\mathbf {V} _{2}\end{bmatrix}}^{*}={\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {U} _{1}&\mathbf {U} _{2}\end{bmatrix}}{\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf {D} ^{\frac {1}{2}}\mathbf {V} _{1}^{*}\\0\end{bmatrix}}=\mathbf {U} _{1}\mathbf {D} ^{\frac {1}{2}}V_{1}^{*}=\mathbf {M}$

which is the desired result:

$\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$

Notice the argument could begin with diagonalizing MM* rather than M*M (This shows directly that MM* and M*M have the same non-zero eigenvalues).

Based on variational characterization

The singular values can also be characterized as the maxima of u^TMv, considered as a function of u and v, over particular subspaces. The singular vectors are the values of u and v where these maxima are attained.

Let M denote an m × n matrix with real entries. Let $S^{m-1}$ and $S^{n-1}$ denote the sets of unit 2-norm vectors in R^m and Rⁿ respectively. Define the function

$\sigma ({\vec {u}},{\vec {v}})={\vec {u}}^{T}M{\vec {v}}$

for vectors u ∈ $S^{m-1}$ and v ∈ $S^{n-1}$. Consider the function σ restricted to $S^{m-1}$ × $S^{n-1}$. Since both $S^{m-1}$ and $S^{n-1}$ are compact sets, their product is also compact. Furthermore, since σ is continuous, it attains a largest value for at least one pair of vectors u ∈ $S^{m-1}$ and v ∈ $S^{n-1}$. This largest value is denoted σ₁ and the corresponding vectors are denoted u₁ and v₁. Since $\sigma _{1}$ is the largest value of $\sigma (u,v)$ it must be non-negative. If it were negative, changing the sign of either u₁ or v₁ would make it positive and therefore larger.

Statement: u₁, v₁ are left and right-singular vectors of M with corresponding singular value σ₁.

Proof: Similar to the eigenvalues case, by assumption the two vectors satisfy the Lagrange multiplier equation:

$\nabla \sigma =\nabla \;{\vec {u}}^{T}\mathbf {M} {\vec {v}}-\lambda _{1}\cdot \nabla \;{\vec {u}}^{T}{\vec {u}}-\lambda _{2}\cdot \nabla \;{\vec {v}}^{T}{\vec {v}}$

After some algebra, this becomes

$\mathbf {M} {\vec {v}}_{1}=2\lambda _{1}{\vec {u}}_{1}+0$

and

$\mathbf {M} ^{T}{\vec {u}}_{1}=0+2\lambda _{2}{\vec {v}}_{1}$

Multiplying the first equation from left by ${\vec {u}}_{1}^{T}$ and the second equation from left by ${\vec {v}}_{1}^{T}$ and taking ||u|| = ||v|| = 1 into account gives

$\sigma _{1}=2\lambda _{1}=2\lambda _{2}.$

Plugging this into the pair of equations above, we have

$\mathbf {M} {\vec {v}}_{1}=\sigma _{1}{\vec {u}}_{1}$

and

$\mathbf {M} ^{T}{\vec {u}}_{1}=\sigma _{1}{\vec {v}}_{1}$

This proves the statement.

More singular vectors and singular values can be found by maximizing σ(u, v) over normalized u, v which are orthogonal to u₁ and v₁, respectively.

The passage from real to complex is similar to the eigenvalue case.

Geometric meaning

Because U and V are unitary, we know that the columns u₁, …, u_m of U yield an orthonormal basis of K^m and the columns v₁, …, v_n of V yield an orthonormal basis of Kⁿ (with respect to the standard scalar products on these spaces).

The linear transformation T :Kⁿ → K^m that takes a vector x to Mx has a particularly simple description with respect to these orthonormal bases: we have T(v_i) = σ_i u_i, for i = 1,...,min(m,n), where σ_i is the i-th diagonal entry of Σ, and T(v_i) = 0 for i > min(m,n).

The geometric content of the SVD theorem can thus be summarized as follows: for every linear map T :Kⁿ → K^m one can find orthonormal bases of Kⁿ and K^m such that T maps the i-th basis vector of Kⁿ to a non-negative multiple of the i-th basis vector of K^m, and sends the left-over basis vectors to zero. With respect to these bases, the map T is therefore represented by a diagonal matrix with non-negative real diagonal entries.

To get a more visual flavour of singular values and SVD decomposition —at least when working on real vector spaces— consider the sphere S of radius one in Rⁿ. The linear map T maps this sphere onto an ellipsoid in R^m. Non-zero singular values are simply the lengths of the semi-axes of this ellipsoid. Especially when n=m, and all the singular values are distinct and non-zero, the SVD of the linear map T can be easily analysed as a succession of three consecutive moves : consider the ellipsoid T(S) and specifically its axes ; then consider the directions in Rⁿ sent by T onto these axes. These directions happen to be mutually orthogonal. Apply first an isometry v* sending these directions to the coordinate axes of Rⁿ. On a second move, apply an endomorphism d diagonalized along the coordinate axes and stretching or shrinking in each direction, using the semi-axes lengths of T(S) as stretching coefficients. The composition d o v* then sends the unit-sphere onto an ellipsoid isometric to T(S). To define the third and last move u, apply an isometry to this ellipsoid so as to carry it over T(S). As can be easily checked, the composition u o d o v* coincides with T.

Calculating the SVD

Numerical Approach

The SVD of a matrix M is typically computed by a two-step procedure. In the first step, the matrix is reduced to a bidiagonal matrix. This takes O(mn²) floating-point operations (flops), assuming that m ≥ n (this formulation uses the big O notation). The second step is to compute the SVD of the bidiagonal matrix. This step can only be done with an iterative method (as with eigenvalue algorithms). However, in practice it suffices to compute the SVD up to a certain precision, like the machine epsilon. If this precision is considered constant, then the second step takes O(n) iterations, each costing O(n) flops. Thus, the first step is more expensive, and the overall cost is O(mn²) flops Template:Harv.

The first step can be done using Householder reflections for a cost of 4mn² − 4n³/3 flops, assuming that only the singular values are needed and not the singular vectors. If m is much larger than n then it is advantageous to first reduce the matrix M to a triangular matrix with the QR decomposition and then use Householder reflections to further reduce the matrix to bidiagonal form; the combined cost is 2mn² + 2n³ flops Template:Harv.

The second step can be done by a variant of the QR algorithm for the computation of eigenvalues, which was first described by Template:Harvtxt. The LAPACK subroutine DBDSQR implements this iterative method, with some modifications to cover the case where the singular values are very small Template:Harv. Together with a first step using Householder reflections and, if appropriate, QR decomposition, this forms the DGESVD routine for the computation of the singular value decomposition.

The same algorithm is implemented in the GNU Scientific Library (GSL). The GSL also offers an alternative method, which uses a one-sided Jacobi orthogonalization in step 2 Template:Harv. This method computes the SVD of the bidiagonal matrix by solving a sequence of 2-by-2 SVD problems, similar to how the Jacobi eigenvalue algorithm solves a sequence of 2-by-2 eigenvalue methods Template:Harv. Yet another method for step 2 uses the idea of divide-and-conquer eigenvalue algorithms Template:Harv.

Analytic result of 2-by-2 SVD

The singular values of a 2-by-2 matrix can be found analytically. Let the matrix be $\mathbf {M} =z_{0}\mathbf {I} +z_{1}\sigma _{1}+z_{2}\sigma _{2}+z_{3}\sigma _{3}$

where $z_{i}\in \mathbb {C}$ are complex numbers that parameterize the matrix, $\mathbf {I}$ is the identity matrix, and $\sigma _{i}$ denote the Pauli matrices. Then its two singular values are given by

${\begin{aligned}\sigma _{\pm }&={\sqrt {|z_{0}|^{2}+|z_{1}|^{2}+|z_{2}|^{2}+|z_{3}|^{2}\pm {\sqrt {(|z_{0}|^{2}+|z_{1}|^{2}+|z_{2}|^{2}+|z_{3}|^{2})^{2}-|z_{0}^{2}-z_{1}^{2}-z_{2}^{2}-z_{3}^{2}|^{2}}}}}\\&={\sqrt {|z_{0}|^{2}+|z_{1}|^{2}+|z_{2}|^{2}+|z_{3}|^{2}\pm 2{\sqrt {(\mathrm {Re} z_{0}z_{1}^{*})^{2}+(\mathrm {Re} z_{0}z_{2}^{*})^{2}+(\mathrm {Re} z_{0}z_{3}^{*})^{2}+(\mathrm {Im} z_{1}z_{2}^{*})^{2}+(\mathrm {Im} z_{2}z_{3}^{*})^{2}+(\mathrm {Im} z_{3}z_{1}^{*})^{2}}}}}\end{aligned}}$

Reduced SVDs

In applications it is quite unusual for the full SVD, including a full unitary decomposition of the null-space of the matrix, to be required. Instead, it is often sufficient (as well as faster, and more economical for storage) to compute a reduced version of the SVD. The following can be distinguished for an m×n matrix M of rank r:

Thin SVD

$\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} _{n}{\boldsymbol {\Sigma _{n}}}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$

Only the n column vectors of U corresponding to the row vectors of V* are calculated. The remaining column vectors of U are not calculated. This is significantly quicker and more economical than the full SVD if n≪m. The matrix U_n is thus m×n, Σ_n is n×n diagonal, and V is n×n.

The first stage in the calculation of a thin SVD will usually be a QR decomposition of M, which can make for a significantly quicker calculation if n≪m.

Compact SVD

$\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} _{r}{\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}_{r}\mathbf {V} _{r}^{*}$

Only the r column vectors of U and r row vectors of V* corresponding to the non-zero singular values Σ_r are calculated. The remaining vectors of U and V* are not calculated. This is quicker and more economical than the thin SVD if r≪n. The matrix U_r is thus m×r, Σ_r is r×r diagonal, and V_r* is r×n.

Truncated SVD

${\tilde {\mathbf {M} }}=\mathbf {U} _{t}{\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}_{t}\mathbf {V} _{t}^{*}$

Only the t column vectors of U and t row vectors of V* corresponding to the t largest singular values Σ_t are calculated. The rest of the matrix is discarded. This can be much quicker and more economical than the compact SVD if t≪r. The matrix U_t is thus m×t, Σ_t is t×t diagonal, and V_t* is t×n.

Of course the truncated SVD is no longer an exact decomposition of the original matrix M, but as discussed above, the approximate matrix ${\tilde {\mathbf {M} }}$ is in a very useful sense the closest approximation to M that can be achieved by a matrix of rank t.

Norms

Ky Fan norms

The sum of the k largest singular values of M is a matrix norm, the Ky Fan k-norm of M.

The first of the Ky Fan norms, the Ky Fan 1-norm is the same as the operator norm of M as a linear operator with respect to the Euclidean norms of K^m and Kⁿ. In other words, the Ky Fan 1-norm is the operator norm induced by the standard l² Euclidean inner product. For this reason, it is also called the operator 2-norm. One can easily verify the relationship between the Ky Fan 1-norm and singular values. It is true in general, for a bounded operator M on (possibly infinite dimensional) Hilbert spaces

$\|\mathbf {M} \|=\|\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M} \|^{\frac {1}{2}}$

But, in the matrix case, M*M^½ is a normal matrix, so ||M* M||^½ is the largest eigenvalue of M* M^½, i.e. the largest singular value of M.

The last of the Ky Fan norms, the sum of all singular values, is the trace norm (also known as the 'nuclear norm'), defined by ||M|| = Tr[(M*M)^½] (the eigenvalues of M* M are the squares of the singular values).

Hilbert–Schmidt norm

The singular values are related to another norm on the space of operators. Consider the Hilbert–Schmidt inner product on the n × n matrices, defined by $\langle \mathbf {M} ,\mathbf {N} \rangle =\operatorname {trace} (\mathbf {N} ^{*}\mathbf {M} )$. So the induced norm is $\|\mathbf {M} \|=\langle \mathbf {M} ,\mathbf {M} \rangle ^{\frac {1}{2}}=\operatorname {trace} (\mathbf {M} ^{*}\mathbf {M} )^{\frac {1}{2}}$. Since trace is invariant under unitary equivalence, this shows

$\|\mathbf {M} \|=\left(\sum \sigma _{i}^{2}\right)^{\frac {1}{2}}$

where $\sigma _{i}$ are the singular values of M. This is called the Frobenius norm, Schatten 2-norm, or Hilbert–Schmidt norm of M. Direct calculation shows that if

$\mathbf {M} =(m_{ij})$

the Frobenius norm of M coincides with

$\left(\sum _{ij}|m_{ij}|^{2}\right)^{\frac {1}{2}}$

Tensor SVD

Unfortunately, the problem of finding a low rank approximation to a tensor is ill-posed. In other words, a best possible solution does not exist, but instead a sequence of better and better approximations that converge to infinitely large matrices. In spite of this, there are several ways to attempt decomposition.

Two types of tensor decompositions exist, which generalise SVD to multi-way arrays. One of them decomposes a tensor into a sum of rank-1 tensors, see Candecomp-PARAFAC (CP) algorithm. The CP algorithm should not be confused with a rank-R decomposition but, for a given N, it decomposes a tensor into a sum of N rank-1 tensors that optimally fit the original tensor. The second type of decomposition computes the orthonormal subspaces associated with the different axes or modes of a tensor (orthonormal row space, column space, fiber space, etc.). This decomposition is referred to in the literature as the Tucker3/TuckerM, M-mode SVD, multilinear SVD and sometimes referred to as a higher-order SVD (HOSVD). In addition, multilinear principal component analysis in multilinear subspace learning involves the same mathematical operations as Tucker decomposition, being used in a different context of dimensionality reduction.

Bounded operators on Hilbert spaces

The factorization $\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} {\boldsymbol {\Sigma }}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$ can be extended to a bounded operator M on a separable Hilbert space H. Namely, for any bounded operator M, there exist a partial isometry U, a unitary V, a measure space (X, μ), and a non-negative measurable f such that

$\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} T_{f}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$

where $T_{f}$ is the multiplication by f on L²(X, μ).

This can be shown by mimicking the linear algebraic argument for the matricial case above. VT_f V* is the unique positive square root of M*M, as given by the Borel functional calculus for self adjoint operators. The reason why U need not be unitary is because, unlike the finite dimensional case, given an isometry U₁ with nontrivial kernel, a suitable U₂ may not be found such that

${\begin{bmatrix}U_{1}\\U_{2}\end{bmatrix}}$

is a unitary operator.

As for matrices, the singular value factorization is equivalent to the polar decomposition for operators: we can simply write

$\mathbf {M} =\mathbf {U} \mathbf {V} ^{*}\cdot \mathbf {V} T_{f}\mathbf {V} ^{*}$

and notice that U V* is still a partial isometry while VT_f V* is positive.

Singular values and compact operators

To extend notion of singular values and left/right-singular vectors to the operator case, one needs to restrict to compact operators. It is a general fact that compact operators on Banach spaces have only discrete spectrum. This is also true for compact operators on Hilbert spaces, since Hilbert spaces are a special case of Banach spaces. If T is compact, every non-zero λ in its spectrum is an eigenvalue. Furthermore, a compact self adjoint operator can be diagonalized by its eigenvectors. If M is compact, so is M*M. Applying the diagonalization result, the unitary image of its positive square root T_f has a set of orthonormal eigenvectors {e_i} corresponding to strictly positive eigenvalues {σ_i}. For any ψ ∈ H,

$\mathbf {M} \psi =\mathbf {U} T_{f}\mathbf {V} ^{*}\psi =\sum _{i}\langle \mathbf {U} T_{f}\mathbf {V} ^{*}\psi ,\mathbf {U} e_{i}\rangle \mathbf {U} e_{i}=\sum _{i}\sigma _{i}\langle \psi ,\mathbf {V} e_{i}\rangle \mathbf {U} e_{i}$

where the series converges in the norm topology on H. Notice how this resembles the expression from the finite dimensional case. The σ_i 's are called the singular values of M. {U e_i} and {V e_i} can be considered the left- and right-singular vectors of M respectively.

Compact operators on a Hilbert space are the closure of finite-rank operators in the uniform operator topology. The above series expression gives an explicit such representation. An immediate consequence of this is:

Theorem M is compact if and only if M*M is compact.

History

The singular value decomposition was originally developed by differential geometers, who wished to determine whether a real bilinear form could be made equal to another by independent orthogonal transformations of the two spaces it acts on. Eugenio Beltrami and Camille Jordan discovered independently, in 1873 and 1874 respectively, that the singular values of the bilinear forms, represented as a matrix, form a complete set of invariants for bilinear forms under orthogonal substitutions. James Joseph Sylvester also arrived at the singular value decomposition for real square matrices in 1889, apparently independently of both Beltrami and Jordan. Sylvester called the singular values the canonical multipliers of the matrix A. The fourth mathematician to discover the singular value decomposition independently is Autonne in 1915, who arrived at it via the polar decomposition. The first proof of the singular value decomposition for rectangular and complex matrices seems to be by Carl Eckart and Gale Young in 1936; they saw it as a generalization of the principal axisTemplate:Disambiguation needed transformation for Hermitian matrices.

In 1907, Erhard Schmidt defined an analog of singular values for integral operators (which are compact, under some weak technical assumptions); it seems he was unaware of the parallel work on singular values of finite matrices. This theory was further developed by Émile Picard in 1910, who is the first to call the numbers $\sigma _{k}$ singular values (or in French, valeurs singulières).

Practical methods for computing the SVD date back to Kogbetliantz in 1954, 1955 and Hestenes in 1958. resembling closely the Jacobi eigenvalue algorithm, which uses plane rotations or Givens rotations. However, these were replaced by the method of Gene Golub and William Kahan published in 1965, which uses Householder transformations or reflections. In 1970, Golub and Christian Reinsch published a variant of the Golub/Kahan algorithm that is still the one most-used today.

See also

• Canonical correlation analysis (CCA)
• Canonical form
• Correspondence analysis (CA)
• Curse of dimensionality
• Digital signal processing
• Dimension reduction
• Eigendecomposition
• Empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs)
• Fourier analysis
• Fourier-related transforms
• Generalized singular value decomposition
• K-SVD
• Latent semantic analysis
• Latent semantic indexing
• Linear least squares
• Locality sensitive hashing
• Matrix decomposition
• Multilinear principal component analysis (MPCA)
• Nearest neighbor search
• Non-linear iterative partial least squares
• Polar decomposition
• Principal components analysis (PCA)
• Singular value
• Time series
• Two-dimensional singular value decomposition (2DSVD)
• von Neumann's trace inequality
• Wavelet compression
• Low-rank approximation

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