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# numpy.linalg.svd

linalg.svd(a, full_matrices=True, compute_uv=True, hermitian=False)

  Singular Value Decomposition.

  When a is a 2D array, and `full_matrices=False`, then it is factorized as `u @ np.diag(s) @ vh = (u * s) @ vh`, where u and the Hermitian transpose of vh are 2D arrays with orthonormal columns and s is a 1D array of a’s singular values. When a is higher-dimensional, SVD is applied in stacked mode as explained below.

  Parameters:
    a(…, M, N) array_like

      A real or complex array with `a.ndim >= 2`.

    full_matrices bool, optional

      If True (default), u and vh have the shapes `(..., M, M)` and `(..., N, N)`, respectively. Otherwise, the shapes are `(..., M, K)` and `(..., K, N)`, respectively, where `K = min(M, N)`.

    compute_uv bool, optional

      Whether or not to compute u and vh in addition to s. True by default.

    hermitian bool, optional

      If True, a is assumed to be Hermitian (symmetric if real-valued), enabling a more efficient method for finding singular values. Defaults to False.

  Returns:
    U{ (…, M, M), (…, M, K) } array

      Unitary array(s). The first `a.ndim - 2` dimensions have the same size as those of the input a. The size of the last two dimensions depends on the value of full_matrices. Only returned when compute_uv is True.

    S(…, K) array

      Vector(s) with the singular values, within each vector sorted in descending order. The first `a.ndim - 2` dimensions have the same size as those of the input a.

    Vh{ (…, N, N), (…, K, N) } array

      Unitary array(s). The first `a.ndim - 2` dimensions have the same size as those of the input a. The size of the last two dimensions depends on the value of full_matrices. Only returned when compute_uv is True.

  Raises:
    LinAlgError

      If SVD computation does not converge.

  See also

  `scipy.linalg.svd`

    Similar function in SciPy.

  `scipy.linalg.svdvals`

    Compute singular values of a matrix.

  Notes

  When compute_uv is True, the result is a namedtuple with the following attribute names: U, S, and Vh.

  The decomposition is performed using LAPACK routine `_gesdd`.

  SVD is usually described for the factorization of a 2D matrix \(A\). The higher-dimensional case will be discussed below. In the 2D case, SVD is written as \(A = U S V^H\), where \(A = a\), \(U= u\), \(S= \mathtt{np.diag}(s)\) and \(V^H = vh\). The 1D array s contains the singular values of a and u and vh are unitary. The rows of vh are the eigenvectors of \(A^H A\) and the columns of u are the eigenvectors of \(A A^H\). In both cases the corresponding (possibly non-zero) eigenvalues are given by `s**2`.

  If a has more than two dimensions, then broadcasting rules apply, as explained in Linear algebra on several matrices at once. This means that SVD is working in “stacked” mode: it iterates over all indices of the first `a.ndim - 2` dimensions and for each combination SVD is applied to the last two indices. The matrix a can be reconstructed from the decomposition with either `(u * s[..., None, :]) @ vh` or `u @ (s[..., None] * vh)`. (The `@` operator can be replaced by the function `np.matmul` for python versions below 3.5.)

  If a is a `matrix` object (as opposed to an `ndarray`), then so are all the return values.

  Examples

      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> rng = np.random.default_rng()
      >>> a = rng.normal(size=(9, 6)) + 1j*rng.normal(size=(9, 6))
      >>> b = rng.normal(size=(2, 7, 8, 3)) + 1j*rng.normal(size=(2, 7, 8, 3))

  Reconstruction based on full SVD, 2D case:

      >>> U, S, Vh = np.linalg.svd(a, full_matrices=True)
      >>> U.shape, S.shape, Vh.shape
      ((9, 9), (6,), (6, 6))
      >>> np.allclose(a, np.dot(U[:, :6] * S, Vh))
      True
      >>> smat = np.zeros((9, 6), dtype=complex)
      >>> smat[:6, :6] = np.diag(S)
      >>> np.allclose(a, np.dot(U, np.dot(smat, Vh)))
      True

  Reconstruction based on reduced SVD, 2D case:

      >>> U, S, Vh = np.linalg.svd(a, full_matrices=False)
      >>> U.shape, S.shape, Vh.shape
      ((9, 6), (6,), (6, 6))
      >>> np.allclose(a, np.dot(U * S, Vh))
      True
      >>> smat = np.diag(S)
      >>> np.allclose(a, np.dot(U, np.dot(smat, Vh)))
      True

  Reconstruction based on full SVD, 4D case:

      >>> U, S, Vh = np.linalg.svd(b, full_matrices=True)
      >>> U.shape, S.shape, Vh.shape
      ((2, 7, 8, 8), (2, 7, 3), (2, 7, 3, 3))
      >>> np.allclose(b, np.matmul(U[..., :3] * S[..., None, :], Vh))
      True
      >>> np.allclose(b, np.matmul(U[..., :3], S[..., None] * Vh))
      True

  Reconstruction based on reduced SVD, 4D case:

      >>> U, S, Vh = np.linalg.svd(b, full_matrices=False)
      >>> U.shape, S.shape, Vh.shape
      ((2, 7, 8, 3), (2, 7, 3), (2, 7, 3, 3))
      >>> np.allclose(b, np.matmul(U * S[..., None, :], Vh))
      True
      >>> np.allclose(b, np.matmul(U, S[..., None] * Vh))
      True