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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…
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…
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…
We introduce a primal-dual framework for solving linearly constrained nonconvex composite optimization problems. Our approach is based on a newly developed Lagrangian, which incorporates \emph{false penalty} and dual smoothing terms. This…
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…
In this paper, for solving inconsistent matrix equations we propose a dual-space residual-based randomized extended Kaczmarz method and its version with Nesterov momentum. Without the full column rank assumptions on coefficient matrices, we…
By introducing a subsampling strategy, we propose a randomized block Kaczmarz-Motzkin method for solving linear systems. Such strategy not only determines the block size, but also combines and extends two famous strategies, i.e., randomness…
In this paper, we propose a Robbins-Monro augmented Lagrangian method (RMALM) to solve a class of constrained stochastic convex optimization, which can be regarded as a hybrid of the Robbins-Monro type stochastic approximation method and…
The Kaczmarz method is a way to iteratively solve a linear system of equations $Ax = b$. One interprets the solution $x$ as the point where hyperplanes intersect and then iteratively projects an approximate solution onto these hyperplanes…
The Kaczmarz method is an iterative algorithm for solving systems of linear equations Ax=b. Theoretical convergence rates for this algorithm were largely unknown until recently when work was done on a randomized version of the algorithm. It…
In a recent work (arXiv-DOI: 1804.08072v1) we introduced the Modified Augmented Lagrangian Method (MALM) for the efficient minimization of objective functions with large quadratic penalty terms. From MALM there results an optimality…
We present a numerical method for the minimization of objectives that are augmented with large quadratic penalties of overdetermined inconsistent equality constraints. Such objectives arise from quadratic integral penalty methods for the…
In this two-part study we develop a unified approach to the analysis of the global exactness of various penalty and augmented Lagrangian functions for finite-dimensional constrained optimization problems. This approach allows one to verify…
The Kaczmarz algorithm is an iterative method that solves linear systems of equations. It stands out among iterative algorithms when dealing with large systems for two reasons. First, at each iteration, the Kaczmarz algorithm uses a single…
Low-rank representation (LRR) is an effective method for subspace clustering and has found wide applications in computer vision and machine learning. The existing LRR solver is based on the alternating direction method (ADM). It suffers…
The famous greedy randomized Kaczmarz (GRK) method uses the greedy selection rule on maximum distance to determine a subset of the indices of working rows. In this paper, with the greedy selection rule on maximum residual, we propose the…
We study Kaczmarz type methods to solve consistent linear matrix equations. We first present a block Kaczmarz (BK) method that employs a deterministic cyclic row selection strategy. Assuming that the associated coefficient matrix has full…
We consider the minimization of a sum of a smooth function with a nonsmooth composite function, where the composition is applied on a random linear mapping. This random composite model encompasses many problems, and can especially capture…
We present a randomized Kaczmarz method for linear discriminant analysis (rkLDA), an iterative randomized approach to binary-class Gaussian model linear discriminant analysis (LDA) for very large data. We harness a least squares formulation…
In this paper, combining count sketch and maximal weighted residual Kaczmarz method, we propose a fast randomized algorithm for large overdetermined linear systems. Convergence analysis of the new algorithm is provided. Numerical…