svd_truncated, a FORTRAN90 code which demonstrates the computation of the reduced or truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of an M by N rectangular matrix, in cases where M < N or N < M.
The singular value decomposition of an M by N rectangular matrix A has the form
A(mxn) = U(mxm) * S(mxn) * V'(nxn)
where
It is often the case that the matrix A has one dimension much bigger than the other. For instance, M = 3 and N = 10,000 might be such a case. For such examples, much of the computation and memory required for the standard SVD may not actually be needed. Instead, a truncated, or reduced version is appropriate. It will be computed faster, and require less memory to store the data.
If M < N, we have the "truncated V" SVD:
A(mxn) = U(mxm) * Sm(mxm) * Vm'(nxm)
Notice that, for our example, we will have to compute and store a Vm of size
30,000 instead of a V of size 1,000,000 entries.
If N < M, we have the "truncated U" SVD:
A(mxn) = Un(mxn) * Sn(nxn) * V'(nxn)
Similarly, in this case, the computation and storage of Un can be much reduced
from that of U.
The LAPACK routines CGESVD, DGESVD, SGESVD and ZGESVD compute the SVD for a rectangular matrix in single or double precision, real or complex arithmetic. These routines include some options that allow you to request a reduced or truncated SVD computation, but the exact details of how to do this may be a little obscure. This program demonstrates how it is done.
In order to compile and load this program, you need to have access to a copy of LAPACK.
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license
svd_truncated is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.
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