node-svd

Node.js module for SVDLIBC providing fast Singular-Value-Decomposition with ease.

Changes

• 0.1.3 - Now works with node version 0.12 and above

• 0.1.2 - changed the Init method to InitSVD because of a name conflict with the new version of node

How to install

You need node-gyp to be available as a command within the environment. Then, assuming it is available, simply use:

npm install node-svd

How to use

The module simply provide a function svd of signature:

/**
 * @param A [row1, row2 ...] matrix to apply svd onto
 * @param dim the number of singular values to keep, 0 for all (default)
 * @param settings { U, V, debug }
 * @return {d, U, S, V}
 */

About the settings:

• debug is a number from 0, 1 (default) and 2 describing the verbosity
• U is a boolean setting whether to untranspose the result Ut to U (true, by default)
• V is a boolean setting whether to untranspose the result Vt to V (false, by default)

The untransposition is provided because SVDLIBC result provides Ut and Vt, which are the transposed U and V, thus of dimensions (d by m) and (d by n). Vt may be wanted, but if you want to recompute the initial A, you need U and not Ut, thus the default values. Note that it doesn't add any overhead.

Example

The basic is really simple:

var svd = require('svd').svd;
var res = svd(myMatrix, dim, settings);
// use res.U, res.S and res.V

Test

The basic example given in 'test.js' computes the svd of the simple matrix:

 A = [
  [1, 2],
  [3, 4],
  [5, 6]
];

The resulting U, S and V are displayed, and then the matrix A is recomputed (brute-force implementation of matrix multiplication) by simply multiplying back the parts together. Floating point errors put aside, the results are the same (at least for that case).

Test check with Matlab / Octave

Simply use :

A = [1, 2; 3, 4; 5, 6];
[u, s, v] = svd(A)
B = u * s * v
C = u(1:3, 1:2) * s(1:2, 1:2) * v

LICENSE

The MIT License

Copyright 2012 Alexandre Kaspar [e-mail]

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