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Truncated SVD

A truncated singular value decomposition method used for dimensionality reduction, especially in sparse matrices.

Truncated SVD is highly useful for dimensionality reduction in large and sparse data structures. It is especially effective in text mining, recommendation systems, and high-dimensional sparse feature spaces. Like PCA, it produces a low-dimensional representation, but because it does not require centering, it is more compatible with sparse matrices. This makes it especially valuable in practical data science workflows.