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The multi-step inertial randomized Kaczmarz (MIRK) method is an iterative method for solving large-scale linear systems. In this paper, we enhance the MIRK method by incorporating the greedy probability criterion, coupled with the…

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The random reshuffling Kaczmarz (RRK) method enjoys the simplicity and efficiency in solving linear systems as a Kaczmarz-type method, whereas it also inherits the practical improvements of the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with random…

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We consider minimizing an objective function subject to constraints defined by the intersection of lower-level sets of convex functions. We study two cases: (i) strongly convex and Lipschitz-smooth objective function and (ii) convex but…

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For solving large-scale consistent linear system, we combine two efficient row index selection strategies with Kaczmarz-type method with oblique projection, and propose a greedy randomized Kaczmarz method with oblique projection (GRKO) and…

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In this paper, we study first-order methods on a large variety of low-rank matrix optimization problems, whose solutions only live in a low dimensional eigenspace. Traditional first-order methods depend on the eigenvalue decomposition at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Yongfeng Li , Haoyang Liu , Zaiwen Wen , Yaxiang Yuan

The Sparse Kaczmarz method is a famous and widely used iterative method for solving the regularized basis pursuit problem. A general scheme of the surrogate hyperplane sparse Kaczmarz method is proposed. In particular, a class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Ze Wang , Jun-Feng Yin , Ji-Chen Zhao

We consider linear systems $Ax = b$ where $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ consists of normalized rows, $\|a_i\|_{\ell^2} = 1$, and where up to $\beta m$ entries of $b$ have been corrupted (possibly by arbitrarily large numbers). Haddock,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Stefan Steinerberger

Combined optimization problems that couple data-fidelity and regularization terms arise naturally in a wide range of inverse problems. In this paper, we study an adaptive randomized averaging block extended Bregman-Kaczmarz (aRABEBK) method…

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Majorization-minimization schemes are a broad class of iterative methods targeting general optimization problems, including nonconvex, nonsmooth and stochastic. These algorithms minimize successively a sequence of upper bounds of the…

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We present a novel method for matrix completion, specifically designed for matrices where one dimension is significantly larger than the other. Our Columns Selected Matrix Completion (CSMC) method combines Column Subset Selection with…

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MPC (Model predictive control)-based motion planning and trajectory generation are essential in applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, robotic manipulators, and rocket control. However, the real-time implementation of such…

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The randomized Kaczmarz method and its accelerated variants are a powerful class of iterative methods for solving large-scale linear systems, offering guaranteed convergence with low per-iteration cost. However, their numerical stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Michał Dereziński , Ethan N. Epperly , Deanna Needell , Alexander Xue

We describe an asynchronous parallel variant of the randomized Kaczmarz (RK) algorithm for solving the linear system $Ax=b$. The analysis shows linear convergence and indicates that nearly linear speedup can be expected if the number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Ji Liu , Stephen J. Wright , Srikrishna Sridhar

In this paper, we further investigate and refine the subspace-constrained preconditioning technique to enhance the theoretical and numerical convergence properties of randomized iterative methods for solving linear systems. In particular,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yonghan Sun , Hou-Duo Qi , Deren Han , Jiaxin Xie

Randomized regularized Kaczmarz algorithms have recently been proposed to solve tensor recovery models with {\it consistent} linear measurements. In this work, we propose a novel algorithm based on the randomized extended Kaczmarz algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Kui Du , Xiao-Hui Sun

This paper studies the effect of adding geometrically smoothed momentum to the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm, which is an instance of stochastic gradient descent on a linear least squares loss function. We prove a result about the expected…

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We obtain an improved finite-sample guarantee on the linear convergence of stochastic gradient descent for smooth and strongly convex objectives, improving from a quadratic dependence on the conditioning $(L/\mu)^2$ (where $L$ is a bound on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-19 Deanna Needell , Nathan Srebro , Rachel Ward

Randomized Kaczmarz (RK) is a simple and fast solver for consistent overdetermined systems, but it is known to be fragile under noise. We study overdetermined $m\times n$ linear systems with a sparse set of corrupted equations, $ {\bf…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Sofiia Shvaiko , Longxiu Huang , Elizaveta Rebrova

Distributed linear algebraic equation over networks, where nodes hold a part of problem data and cooperatively solve the equation via node-to-node communications, is a basic distributed computation task receiving an increasing research…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Peng Yi , Jinlong Lei , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen , Guodong Shi

Sketch-and-project is a framework which unifies many known iterative methods for solving linear systems and their variants, as well as further extensions to non-linear optimization problems. It includes popular methods such as randomized…

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