Method of Successive Projections for Nonnegative Inverse Singular Value problems with Prescribed Structure

The study of solving inverse singular value problems for nonnegative matrices has been around for decades. It is clear that an inverse singular problem is trivial if the desirable matrix is not restricted to a certain structure. Provided with singular values and diagonal entries, this paper presents a numerical procedure, based on the successive projection process, to solve inverse singular value problems for nonnegative matrices subject to given diagonal entries. Even if we focus on the specific type of inverse singular value problems with prescribed diagonal entries, this entire procedure can be carried over with little effort to other types of structure. Numerical examples are used to demonstrate the capacity and efficiency of our method.