# torch.pca_lowrank¶

torch.pca_lowrank(A, q=None, center=True, niter=2)[source]

Performs linear Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on a low-rank matrix, batches of such matrices, or sparse matrix.

This function returns a namedtuple (U, S, V) which is the nearly optimal approximation of a singular value decomposition of a centered matrix $A$ such that $A = U diag(S) V^T$ .

Note

The relation of (U, S, V) to PCA is as follows:

• $A$ is a data matrix with m samples and n features

• the $V$ columns represent the principal directions

• $S ** 2 / (m - 1)$ contains the eigenvalues of $A^T A / (m - 1)$ which is the covariance of A when center=True is provided.

• matmul(A, V[:, :k]) projects data to the first k principal components

Note

Different from the standard SVD, the size of returned matrices depend on the specified rank and q values as follows:

• $U$ is m x q matrix

• $S$ is q-vector

• $V$ is n x q matrix

Note

To obtain repeatable results, reset the seed for the pseudorandom number generator

Parameters
• A (Tensor) – the input tensor of size $(*, m, n)$

• q (int, optional) – a slightly overestimated rank of $A$ . By default, q = min(6, m, n).

• center (bool, optional) – if True, center the input tensor, otherwise, assume that the input is centered.

• niter (int, optional) – the number of subspace iterations to conduct; niter must be a nonnegative integer, and defaults to 2.

References:

- Nathan Halko, Per-Gunnar Martinsson, and Joel Tropp, Finding
structure with randomness: probabilistic algorithms for
constructing approximate matrix decompositions,
arXiv:0909.4061 [math.NA; math.PR], 2009 (available at
arXiv <http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4061>_).