import torch


def matrix_to_rotation_6d(matrix: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
    """
    Converts rotation matrices to 6D rotation representation by Zhou et al. [1]
    by dropping the last row. Note that 6D representation is not unique.
    Args:
        matrix: batch of rotation matrices of size (*, 3, 3)
    Returns:
        6D rotation representation, of size (*, 6)
    [1] Zhou, Y., Barnes, C., Lu, J., Yang, J., & Li, H.
    On the Continuity of Rotation Representations in Neural Networks.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2019.
    Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07035
    """
    return matrix[..., :2, :].clone().reshape(*matrix.size()[:-2], 6)