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Recent advancements in quantum computing and quantum-inspired algorithms have sparked renewed interest in binary optimization. These hardware and software innovations promise to revolutionize solution times for complex problems. In this…
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Several strategies are described and analyzed to speed-up gradient-type methods when applied to the minimization of strictly convex quadratics and strictly convex functions. The proposed techniques focus on relaxing the traditional optimal…
In this note we reconsider two known algorithms which both usually converge faster than the randomized Kaczmarz method introduced by Strohmer and Vershynin(2009), but require the additional computation of all residuals of an iteration at…
We investigate iterated Tikhonov methods coupled with a Kaczmarz strategy for obtaining stable solutions of nonlinear systems of ill-posed operator equations. We show that the proposed method is a convergent regularization method. In the…
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