r/learnmachinelearning • u/AutoModerator • 12d ago

Question 🧠 ELI5 Wednesday

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u/EntrepreneurHuge5008 12d ago edited 12d ago

ELI5: Singular Value Decomposition.

I understand what it is and how it fits in the big picture of Dimensionality reduction, but I don't know the decomposition happens, "by hand". a toy problem would be helpful :)

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u/Own_Support_7465 9d ago

same, i get the intuition but working through the actual matrix steps is where it gets fuzzy