This Is How You Can Explain SVD to a 7-Year-Old
Understand the intuition behind the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) algorithm.
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6 min readSep 15, 2022
I am writing this article because, at first, I struggled to understand the mathematical intuition behind the SVD algorithm. But if you throw away all the fancy math terms, the idea behind the algorithm is easy to understand.