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EE263: Matrix Methods: Singular Value Decomposition

Stanford University, Fall Quarter 2025

Lecture videos

  • Video from the lectures is available on Canvas

Lecture slides

This list of slides will be added to during the quarter.

  1. Overview

  2. Linear functions

  3. Engineering examples

  4. Interpretations of linear equations

  5. Linear algebra review

  6. Range and null space

  7. Rank

  8. Orthogonality

  9. QR factorization

  10. Least-squares

  11. Projectors

  12. Example: Least-squares filtering

  13. Example: Least-squares navigation

  14. Multi-objective least-squares

  15. Least-norm solutions of underdetermined equations

  16. Recursive estimation

  17. Least-squares fitting

  18. LS via QR factorization

  19. Gauss-Newton method

  20. Eigenvectors and diagonalization

  21. Symmetric matrices

  22. Ellipsoids

  23. Matrix norm

  24. SVD and applications

  25. Matrix facts

  26. Gaussians

  27. Conditional Gaussians

  28. MMSE estimation

  29. The linear model

  30. Spectral graph embedding

Material from EE263 in 2024 that is now in EE363:

The slides below are on linear dynamical systems. These are from the old EE263, and will not be covered in Fall 2025. This material will be covered in EE363 in Spring.

  1. Autonomous linear dynamical systems

  2. Solution via matrix exponential

  3. Dynamic interpretation of eigenvectors

  4. Jordan canonical form

  5. Linear dynamical systems with inputs and outputs

  6. Controllability and state transfer

  7. Observability and state estimation

  8. Example: Input design

  9. Example: Estimation and filtering

  10. Example: Least-squares filtering revisited