Understanding Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) in Linear Algebra
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is a powerful technique in linear algebra that breaks down any matrix into orthogonal stretching followed by rotation. It reveals insights into transformations, basis vectors, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors, aiding in understanding linear transformations in a geometric sense. SVD can be performed on non-square matrices by dimension padding or reduction for converting between 2D and 3D spaces.
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Lecture 13: Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) Junghoo John Cho UCLA
Summary: Two Worlds basis vectors World of vectors Vector ? Linear transformation ? ? ? + ? ? = ?? ? + ?? ? World of numbers 1?: 1,2,0 vector 1 2 1:1 mapping (=isomorphic) 3 0 2 2?: matrix Orthogonal Stretching Stretching factor Stretching direction Rotation Stretching + Rotation Symmetric matrix Eigenvalue Eigenvector Orthonormal matrix
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) Any matrix ? can be decomposed to ? ? = ?1??2 where ? is a diagonal matrix and ?1 and ?2 are orthonormal matrix Singular values: diagonal entries in ? Example 1 2 2 1 2 2 5 10 1 4 5 3 5 4 5 9 2 5 3 2 2 3 0 0 2 = 10 1 3 17 2 5 Q: What is this transformation? What does SVD mean?
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) ? mean? Q: What does ?2 1 1 4 5 3 5 4 5 3 0 0 2 Change of coordinates! New basis vectors are (4/5, 3/5) and (-3/5, 4/5)! 2 2 ?= ? = ?1??2 1 1 3 2 2 5 Q: What does ?1mean? Q: What does ? mean? Rotation! Rotate first basis vector (4/5, 3/5) to (1/ 2, 1/ 2) second basis vector (-3/5, 4/5) to (-1/ 2, 1/ 2) Orthogonal stretching! Stretch x3 along first basis vector (4/5, 3/5) Stretch x2 along second basis vector (-3/5, 4/5)! SVD shows that any matrix (= linear transformation) is essentially a orthogonal stretching followed by a rotation
What about Non-Square Matrix ?? ?? Q: When ? is an ? ? matrix, what are dimensions of ?1,?,?2 ? ? ? ? ?) (?) = (?1) (?) (?2 ? ? ? ? For non-square matrix ?, ? becomes a non-square diagonal matrix When ? > ? When ? < ? ?1 0 0 ?2 0 0 ?1 0 0 ?2 0 0 ? = ? = dimension padding Covert 2D to 3D by adding a third dimension, for example dimension reduction Convert 3D to 2D by discarding the third dimension, for example
Computing SVD Q: How can we perform SVD? ? = ?1??2 ??? = (?1??2 Q: What kind of matrix is ???? ??? is a symmetric matrix Orthogonal stretching Diagonal entries of ??? ~ ?2 are eigenvalues (i.e., stretching factor) Columns of ?2 are eigenvectors (i.e., stretching direction) We can compute ?2of ? = ?1??2 Similarly ?1 is the eigenvectors of ??? ? ~ ??? or ??? SVD can be done by computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors of TTT and TTT ? ?)??1??2 ?= ?2???1 ? ?= ?2????2 ? ?1??2 ? by computing eigenvectors of ???
Example: SVD Q: What kind of linear transformation is ?? 3 1 1 1 3 5 4 5 0 4 2 2 0 0 2 2 1 5 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 5 3 = ? = 1 3 5 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 2 2 12 5 9 5 1 0 0 1 0
Summary: Two Worlds basis vectors World of vectors Vector ? Linear transformation ? ? ? + ? ? = ?? ? + ?? ? World of numbers 1?: 1,2,0 vector 1 2 Symmetric matrix Eigenvalue Eigenvector Orthonormal matrix Singular value decomposition 1:1 mapping (=isomorphic) 3 0 2 2?: matrix Orthogonal Stretching Stretching factor Stretching direction Rotation Stretching + Rotation
SVD: Application Rank-? approximation Sometimes we may want to approximate a large matrix as multiplication of two smaller matrices ? ? ? ? = X ? ? Q: Why?
Rank-? Approximation Q: How can we decompose a matrix into multiplication of two matrices of rank-? in the best possible way? Minimize the L2 difference (= Frobenius norm) between the original matrix and the approximation
SVD as Matrix Approximation 1/ 2 1/ 2 0 0 0 1 1/ 2 1/ 2 0 3/5 4/5 0 4/5 3/5 0 0 0 1 100 0 0 0 0 0 ? = 10 0 0.1 Q: If we want to reduce the rank of ? to 2, what will be a good choice? The best rank-? approximation of any matrix ? is to keep the first-? entries of its SVD. Minimizes L2 difference between the original and the rank-? approximation
SVD Approximation Example: 1000 x 1000 matrix with (0 255) 62 60 58 57 61 60 58 57 61 59 58 57 59 59 58 57 58 58 58 57 57 58 58 57 56 57 58 57 56 57 58 57 59 58 57 56 58 58 57 57 57 57 57 57 56 57 57 58 58 57 57 57 56 56 55 55 55 56 57 58 57 57 56 56 55 55 54 54 56 56 57 57 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 56 56 56 56 53 53 54 54 55 56 56 56 57 56 56 55 55 55 55 56 56 56 56 56 59 58 57 56 54 54 55 55 55 55 56 56 57 57 56 56
Original vs Rank 100 approximation Q: How many numbers do we keep for each?
Dimensionality Reduction A data with large dimension Example: 1M users with 10M items. 1M x 10M matrix Q: Can we represent each user with much fewer dimensions, say 1000, without losing too much information?