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The Kaczmarz method is successfully used for solving discretizations of linear inverse problems, especially in computed tomography where it is known as ART. Practitioners often observe and appreciate its fast convergence in the first few…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Per Christian Hansen , Michiel E. Hochstenbach

We present a different view on stochastic optimization, which goes back to the splitting schemes for approximate solutions of ODE. In this work, we provide a connection between stochastic gradient descent approach and first-order splitting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-21 Daniil Merkulov , Ivan Oseledets

Kaczmarz is one of the most prominent iterative solvers for linear systems of equations. Despite substantial research progress in recent years, the state-of-the-art Kaczmarz algorithms have not fully resolved the seesaw effect, a major…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Aneesh Panchal , Ratikanta Behera

In this paper we make a theoretical analysis of the convergence rates of Kaczmarz and Extended Kaczmarz projection algorithms for some of the most practically used control sequences. We first prove an at least linear convergence rate for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Constantin Popa

This paper first proposes an N-block PCPM algorithm to solve N-block convex optimization problems with both linear and nonlinear constraints, with global convergence established. A linear convergence rate under the strong second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Run Chen , Andrew L. Liu

Linear regression is effective at identifying interpretable trends in a data set, but averages out potentially different effects on subgroups within data. We propose an iterative algorithm based on the randomized Kaczmarz (RK) method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Erin George , Yotam Yaniv , Deanna Needell

In recent years, randomized algorithms have established themselves as fundamental tools in computational linear algebra, with applications in scientific computing, machine learning, and quantum information science. Many randomized matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Ethan N. Epperly

A subgradient method is presented for solving general convex optimization problems, the main requirement being that a strictly-feasible point is known. A feasible sequence of iterates is generated, which converges to within user-specified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 James Renegar

This paper investigates the convergence of the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm for the problem of phase retrieval of complex-valued objects. While this algorithm has been studied for the real-valued case}, its generalization to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Teng Zhang , Feng Yu

In this work we present a new simple but efficient scheme - Subsquares approach - for development of algorithms for enclosing the solution set of overdetermined interval linear systems. We are going to show two algorithms based on this…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Jaroslav Horáček , Milan Hladík

When solving noisy linear systems Ax = b + c, the theoretical and empirical performance of stochastic iterative methods, such as the Randomized Kaczmarz algorithm, depends on the noise level. However, if there are a small number of highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Jamie Haddock , Anna Ma , Elizaveta Rebrova

Chance constrained program is computationally intractable due to the existence of chance constraints, which are randomly disturbed and should be satisfied with a probability. This paper proposes a two-layer randomized algorithm to address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Xun Shen , Jiancang Zhuang , Xingguo Zhang

We study the Kaczmarz methods for solving systems of quadratic equations, i.e., the generalized phase retrieval problem. The methods extend the Kaczmarz methods for solving systems of linear equations by integrating a phase selection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Ke Wei

We provide an exact analysis of a class of randomized algorithms for solving overdetermined least-squares problems. We consider first-order methods, where the gradients are pre-conditioned by an approximation of the Hessian, based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci

This paper presents a new approach to solve linear and nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) problems that requires small memory footprint and throughput and is particularly suitable when the model and/or controller parameters change at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Nilay Saraf , Alberto Bemporad

We investigate iterative methods with randomized preconditioners for solving overdetermined least-squares problems, where the preconditioners are based on a random embedding of the data matrix. We consider two distinct approaches: the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci

The paper considers the minimization of a separable convex function subject to linear ascending constraints. The problem arises as the core optimization in several resource allocation scenarios, and is a special case of an optimization of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Akhil P T , Rajesh Sundaresan

Stochastic iterative algorithms such as the Kaczmarz and Gauss-Seidel methods have gained recent attention because of their speed, simplicity, and the ability to approximately solve large-scale linear systems of equations without needing to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Anna Ma , Deanna Needell , Aaditya Ramdas

To solve nonlinear problems, we construct two kinds of greedy capped nonlinear Kaczmarz methods by setting a capped threshold and introducing an effective probability criterion for selecting a row of the Jacobian matrix. The capped…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Yanjun Zhang , Hanyu Li

Randomized iterative algorithms, such as the randomized Kaczmarz method, have gained considerable popularity due to their efficacy in solving matrix-vector and matrix-matrix regression problems. Our present work leverages the insights…