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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _svd(cls, matrix, num_concepts=5):
 """ Perform singular value decomposition for dimensionality reduction of the input matrix. """

        u, s, v = svds(matrix, k=num_concepts)
        return u, s, v