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By the Eckart-Young-Mirsky theorem, truncate the singular value decomposition:

A_{r} = j = 1 \sum r σ_{j} u_{j} v_{j}^{T}, ∥ A - A_{r} ∥_{2} = σ_{r + 1}, ∥ A - A_{r} ∥_{F} = (j = r + 1 \sum n σ_{j}^{2})^{1/2} .

The same

A_{r}

minimizes the spectral norm and Frobenius norm errors over matrices of matrix rank at most

r

. This conventional meaning of rank-

r

low-rank approximation includes the case

rank A < r

, when

A_{r} = A

.

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