New paper out: The role of population structure in computations through neural dynamics. Congrats to @lowrank_adrian, Alexis Dubreuil, @mBeiran and Francesca Mastrogiuseppe for exceptionnal work! Thread -> nature.com/articles/s4159…
Neural computations are currently conceptualised using two seemingly disjoint approaches, as discussed in a beuatiful recent review. nature.com/articles/s4158…
Aug 21, 2020 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
During my physics undergrad, I have never heard of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD).
Why?
Almost all matrices in physics are symmetric, and in that case SVD reduces to eigenvalue decomposition. 1/n
But for non-symmetric, or even non-square matrices, SVD is really the fundamental tool, and data-scientists have known this well.