ResearchResearch paperComputer Vision · Image, Video & 3D Generation · Efficiency & Inference1 source · Oct 7, 2026

D-SLR: The Disjoint Row-Sparse plus Low-Rank Decomposition

We propose the Disjoint Row-Sparse plus Low-Rank (D-SLR) decomposition, a closed-form drop-in for the truncated SVD that improves or exactly matches it.

Key points

  • Compressing a matrix for reconstruction still defaults to the truncated SVD, approximating the data with a single low-rank structure.
  • It is common to reduce the residual further by adding an overlapping row-sparse component, but methods that solve this joint problem often require iterative solvers and tuning of regularization parameters.
  • With zero stored rows D-SLR reduces to the truncated SVD, so it never does worse at equal cost.
  • We derive an assumption-free, a-posteriori lower bound on the error at every shape, giving each solution a computable certificate on the potential gain of any other choice of rank and stored rows.

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  • [1]D-SLR: The Disjoint Row-Sparse plus Low-Rank Decomposition
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 7, 02:07 PM
    We propose the Disjoint Row-Sparse plus Low-Rank (D-SLR) decomposition, a closed-form drop-in for the truncated SVD that improves or exactly matches it.
    Compressing a matrix for reconstruction still defaults to the truncated SVD, approximating the data with a single low-rank structure.

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