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If you can compute products with $A$ and $A^T$, as you specify in a comment, you can run the classical sparse SVD algorithms such as scipy.sparse.linalg.svds, Matlab's svds, or Julia's Arpack.svds, which are based on Lanczos bidiagonalization. They are designed to compute singular values, and are likely to be more robust than a minimization routine coded by ...

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LAPACK has an implementation of the svd of a 2x2 triangular matrix. It appears to be very robust. The routine is XLASV2. To apply to a regular 2x2 matrix, you can simply apply a single givens rotation from the left/right.

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Here's my 2 cents. I would set up the following minimization problem $$\pi(x) = \frac{1}{2} (Ax)^T(Ax)$$ If $A$ has eigenvalues which are zero, there will exist a nonzero $x$ such that $\pi(x)=0$. So, I would try computing the gradient of $\pi$ wrt $x$ and use a gradient descent algorithm to drive $\pi$ towards zero. If you get reasonably close to zero (\$\...

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