# torch.svd_lowrank¶

torch.svd_lowrank(A, q=6, niter=2, M=None)[source]

Return the singular value decomposition (U, S, V) of a matrix, batches of matrices, or a sparse matrix $A$ such that $A \approx U diag(S) V^T$ . In case $M$ is given, then SVD is computed for the matrix $A - M$ .

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The implementation is based on the Algorithm 5.1 from Halko et al, 2009.

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

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The input is assumed to be a low-rank matrix.

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In general, use the full-rank SVD implementation torch.svd for dense matrices due to its 10-fold higher performance characteristics. The low-rank SVD will be useful for huge sparse matrices that torch.svd cannot handle.

Arguments::

A (Tensor): the input tensor of size $(*, m, n)$

q (int, optional): a slightly overestimated rank of A.

niter (int, optional): the number of subspace iterations to

conduct; niter must be a nonnegative integer, and defaults to 2

M (Tensor, optional): the input tensor’s mean of size

$(*, 1, n)$ .

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).