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Due to the ever growing amounts of data leveraged for machine learning and scientific computing, it is increasingly important to develop algorithms that sample only a small portion of the data at a time. In the case of linear least-squares,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Gil Goldshlager , Jiang Hu , Lin Lin

The Kaczmarz algorithm is an iterative technique designed to solve consistent linear systems of equations. It falls within the category of row-action methods, focusing on handling one equation per iteration. This characteristic makes it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Inês Ferreira , Juan A. Acebrón , José Monteiro

We study a version of the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm for solving systems of linear equations where the iterates are confined to the solution space of a selected subsystem. We show that the subspace constraint leads to an accelerated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Jackie Lok , Elizaveta Rebrova

To efficiently solve large scale nonlinear systems, we propose a novel Random Greedy Fast Block Kaczmarz method. This approach integrates the strengths of random and greedy strategies while avoiding the computationally expensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Renjie Ding , Dongling Wang

The Kaczmarz method for solving linear systems of equations is an iterative algorithm that has found many applications ranging from computer tomography to digital signal processing. Despite the popularity of this method, useful theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

The Kaczmarz algorithm is a popular solver for overdetermined linear systems due to its simplicity and speed. In this paper, we propose a modification that speeds up the convergence of the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm for systems of linear…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Hassan Mansour , Ozgur Yilmaz

To find the least squares solution of a very large and inconsistent system of equations, one can employ the extended Kaczmarz algorithm. This method simultaneously removes the error term, such that a consistent system is asymptotically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Stefania Petra , Constantin Popa

With the growth of large data as well as large-scale learning tasks, the need for efficient and robust linear system solvers is greater than ever. The randomized Kaczmarz method (RK) and similar stochastic iterative methods have received…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Lu Cheng , Benjamin Jarman , Deanna Needell , Elizaveta Rebrova

Motivated by the randomized sketch to solve a variety of problems in scientific computation, we improve both the maximal weighted residual Kaczmarz method and the randomized block average Kaczmarz method using two new randomized sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Haochen Jiang , Dongdong Liu , Xianping Wu , Xu Yang

The block Kaczmarz method and its variants are designed for solving the over-determined linear system. They involve iteratively projecting the current point onto the solution space of a subset of constraints. In this work, by alternately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Nian-Ci Wu , Yang Zhou , Zhaolu Tian

We consider the quantum implementations of the two classical iterative solvers for a system of linear equations, including the Kaczmarz method which uses a row of coefficient matrix in each iteration step, and the coordinate descent method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Changpeng Shao , Hua Xiang

The randomized Kaczmarz (RK) method is an iterative method for approximating the least-squares solution of large linear systems of equations. The standard RK method uses sequential updates, making parallel computation difficult. Here, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Jacob D. Moorman , Thomas K. Tu , Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell

In [Steinerberger, Q. Appl. Math., 79:3, 419-429, 2021] and [Shao, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 44(1), 212-239, 2023], two new types of Kaczmarz algorithms, which share some similarities, for consistent linear systems were proposed. These two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Changpeng Shao

The Kaczmarz method is an iterative algorithm for solving systems of linear equalities and inequalities, that iteratively projects onto these constraints. Recently, Strohmer and Vershynin [J. Fourier Anal. Appl., 15(2):262-278, 2009] gave a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-26 Julie Nutini , Behrooz Sepehry , Issam Laradji , Mark Schmidt , Hoyt Koepke , Alim Virani

The randomized version of the Kaczmarz method for the solution of linear systems is known to converge linearly in expectation. In this work we extend this result and show that the recently proposed Randomized Sparse Kaczmarz method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Frank Schöpfer , Dirk A. Lorenz

The Kaczmarz method is an algorithm for finding the solution to an overdetermined consistent system of linear equations Ax=b by iteratively projecting onto the solution spaces. The randomized version put forth by Strohmer and Vershynin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-02-15 Yonina C. Eldar , Deanna Needell

We present a Projection onto Convex Sets (POCS) type algorithm for solving systems of linear equations. POCS methods have found many applications ranging from computer tomography to digital signal and image processing. The Kaczmarz method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Deanna Needell , Rachel Ward

Kaczmarz method is one popular iterative method for solving inverse problems, especially in computed tomography. Recently, it was established that a randomized version of the method enjoys an exponential convergence for well-posed problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Yuling Jiao , Bangti Jin , Xiliang Lu

We present a new framework for the analysis and design of randomized algorithms for solving various types of linear systems, including consistent or inconsistent, full rank or rank-deficient. Our method is formulated with four randomized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Deren Han , Jiaxin Xie

Randomized Kaczmarz methods form a family of linear system solvers which converge by repeatedly projecting their iterates onto randomly sampled equations. While effective in some contexts, such as highly over-determined least squares,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Michał Dereziński , Deanna Needell , Elizaveta Rebrova , Jiaming Yang