I am looking for an algorithm that produces only some of the singular values, 
not all of them. I assume that would be cheaper. I didn't see such a function 
in Julia's documentation.

-erik

> On Mar 15, 2015, at 18:22 , Christian Peel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> What's the reason that you don't want to use Julia's SVD directly?   Is your 
> matrix especially large?   Some links that may be useful:
> 
> Approximating the SVD using Julia:
>    
> http://beowulf.lcs.mit.edu/18.337/projects/Turner-Presentation_SVD-Julia.pdf
>    https://github.com/alexjturner/SVDapprox
> Approximating the SVD using the power method
>    http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~szlam/npisvdnipsshort.pdf
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_iteration
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am looking for a routine that calculate the SVD (singular value 
> decomposition) of a square, complex, dense, non-symmetric matrix. I am aware 
> of Julia's SVD routine (and the respective LAPACK routines that one could 
> call directly). However, I don't need all of the singular values -- I need 
> only the largest one (or some of the largest ones), as well as the associated 
> entries of U. Is there such a routine? I didn't find one in Julia.
> 
> I've looked for other packages that could be wrapped, but couldn't find any 
> that offers this feature. The only thing I found is a description of the 
> "svds" Matlab routine, which is apparently based on "eigs".
> 
> -erik
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