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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

The Kaczmarz method is an iterative method for solving large systems of equations that projects iterates orthogonally onto the solution space of each equation. In contrast to direct methods such as Gaussian elimination or QR-factorization,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-09-30 Noreen Jamil , Deanna Needell , Johannes Muller , Christof Lutteroth , Gerald Weber

The Randomized Kaczmarz Algorithm is a randomized method which aims at solving a consistent system of over determined linear equations. This note discusses how to find an optimized randomization scheme for this algorithm, which is related…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Liang Dai , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Kristiaan Pelckmans

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

Randomized iterative algorithms have recently been proposed to solve large-scale linear systems. In this paper, we present a simple randomized extended block Kaczmarz algorithm that exponentially converges in the mean square to the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Kui Du , Wutao Si , Xiaohui Sun

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

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

Solving linear systems of equations is a fundamental problem in mathematics. When the linear system is so large that it cannot be loaded into memory at once, iterative methods such as the randomized Kaczmarz method excel. Here, we extend…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Anna Ma , Denali Molitor

In this technical report 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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Deanna Needell , Rachel Ward

The generalized Gearhart-Koshy acceleration is a recent exact affine search technique designed for the method of cyclic projections onto hyperplanes, i.e., the Kaczmarz method. However, its convergence properties, particularly the linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Yijie Wang , Yonghan Sun , Deren Han , Jiaxin Xie

The randomzied Kaczmarz method, along with its recently developed variants, has become a popular tool for dealing with large-scale linear systems. However, these methods usually fail to converge when the linear systems are affected by heavy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Lu Zhang , Hongxia Wang , Hui Zhang

The randomized block Kaczmarz (RBK) method is a widely utilized iterative scheme for solving large-scale linear systems. However, the theoretical analysis and practical effectiveness of this method heavily rely on a good row paving of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Ruike Xiang , Jiaxin Xie , Qiye Zhang

In this paper, an extension of Kaczmarz method, the Kaczmarz method with oblique projection (KO), is introduced and analyzed. Using this method, a number of iteration steps to solve the over-determined systems of linear equations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Weiguo Li , Qifeng Wang , Wendi Bao , Li Liu

The randomized Kaczmarz (RK) algorithm is one of the most computationally and memory-efficient iterative algorithms for solving large-scale linear systems. However, practical applications often involve noisy and potentially inconsistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 El Houcine Bergou , Soumia Boucherouite , Aritra Dutta , Xin Li , Anna Ma

We provide a complete characterization of the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm (RKA) for inconsistent linear systems. The Kaczmarz algorithm, known in some fields as the algebraic reconstruction technique, is a classical method for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Chuang Wang , Ameya Agaskar , Yue M. Lu

Randomized Kaczmarz-type methods are widely used for their simplicity and efficiency in solving large-scale linear systems and optimization problems. However, their applicability is limited when dealing with inconsistent systems or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Zeyu Dong , Aqin Xiao , Guojian Yin , Junfeng Yin

The randomized Kaczmarz ($\RK$) algorithm is a simple but powerful approach for solving consistent linear systems $Ax=b$. This paper proposes an accelerated randomized Kaczmarz ($\ARK$) algorithm with better convergence than the standard…

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

The Kaczmarz algorithm is a well known iterative method for solving overdetermined linear systems. Its randomized version yields provably exponential convergence in expectation. In this paper, we propose two new methods to speed up the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Tengfei Ma

The Kaczmarz method is an iterative numerical method for solving large and sparse rectangular systems of linear equations. Gearhart, Koshy and Tam have developed an acceleration technique for the Kaczmarz method that minimizes the distance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Janosch Rieger

Matrix factorization techniques compute low-rank product approximations of high dimensional data matrices and as a result, are often employed in recommender systems and collaborative filtering applications. However, many algorithms for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Edwin Chau , Jamie Haddock