17. Rapidly Decreasing Singular Values

MIT 18.065 Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning, Spring 2018
Instructor: Alex Townsend
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Professor Alex Townsend gives this guest lecture answering the question 'Why are there so many low rank matrices that appear in computational math?' Working effectively with low rank matrices is critical in image compression applications.

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