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The block Kaczmarz method is an iterative scheme for solving overdetermined least-squares problems. At each step, the algorithm projects the current iterate onto the solution space of a subset of the constraints. This paper describes a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Deanna Needell , Joel A. Tropp

This paper studies a stochastic algorithm for linearly constrained nonconvex optimization, where the objective function is smooth but only unbiased stochastic gradients with bounded variance are available. We propose a momentum-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Chenyang Qiu , Mihitha Maithripala , Zongli Lin

In this paper, we propose a federated algorithm for solving large linear systems that is inspired by the classic randomized Kaczmarz algorithm. We provide convergence guarantees of the proposed method, and as a corollary of our analysis, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Halyun Jeong , Deanna Needell , Chi-Hao Wu

The Kaczmarz method is an iterative method for solving overcomplete linear systems of equations Ax=b. The randomized version of the Kaczmarz method put forth by Strohmer and Vershynin iteratively projects onto a randomly chosen solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Deanna Needell , Ran Zhao , Anastasios Zouzias

Due to the ever growing amounts of data leveraged for machine learning and scientific computing, it is increasingly important to develop algorithms that sample only a small portion of the data at a time. In the case of linear least-squares,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Gil Goldshlager , Jiang Hu , Lin Lin

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

The Extended Randomized Kaczmarz method is a well known iterative scheme which can find the Moore-Penrose inverse solution of a possibly inconsistent linear system and requires only one additional column of the system matrix in each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Frank Schöpfer , Dirk A Lorenz , Lionel Tondji , Maximilian Winkler

In this note we compare the randomized extended Kaczmarz (EK) algorithm and randomized coordinate descent (CD) for solving the full-rank overdetermined linear least-squares problem and prove that CD needs less operations for satisfying the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Bogdan Dumitrescu

The randomized version of the Kaczmarz method for the solution of linear systems is known to converge linearly in expectation. In this work we extend this result and show that the recently proposed Randomized Sparse Kaczmarz method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Frank Schöpfer , Dirk A. Lorenz

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

The randomized Kaczmarz algorithm is one of the most popular approaches for solving large-scale linear systems due to its simplicity and efficiency. In this paper, we propose two classes of global randomized Kaczmarz methods for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Yu-Qi Niu , Bing Zheng

The Kaczmarz algorithm is an iterative method for solving systems of linear equations. We introduce a modified Kaczmarz algorithm for solving systems of linear equations in a distributed environment, i.e. the equations within the system are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Chinmay Hegde , Fritz Keinert , Eric S. Weber

The Kaczmarz algorithm is a simple iterative scheme for solving consistent linear systems. At each step, the method projects the current iterate onto the solution space of a single constraint. Hence, it requires very low cost per iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Ion Necoara

We develop a stochastic approximation version of the classical Kaczmarz algorithm that is incremental in nature and takes as input noisy real time data. Our analysis shows that with probability one it mimics the behavior of the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Gugan Thoppe , Vivek S. Borkar , D. Manjunath

In this paper, we analyze the greedy randomized Kaczmarz (GRK) method proposed in Bai and Wu (SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 40(1):A592--A606, 2018) for solving linear systems. We develop more precise greedy probability criteria to effectively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Yansheng Su , Deren Han , Yun Zeng , Jiaxin Xie

Randomized Kaczmarz is a simple iterative method for finding solutions of linear systems $Ax = b$. We point out that the arising sequence $(x_k)_{k=1}^{\infty}$ tends to converge to the solution $x$ in an interesting way: generically, as $k…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Stefan Steinerberger

The Kaczmarz method is an algorithm for finding the solution to an overdetermined consistent system of linear equations Ax=b by iteratively projecting onto the solution spaces. The randomized version put forth by Strohmer and Vershynin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-02-15 Yonina C. Eldar , Deanna Needell

The Bregman-Kaczmarz method is an iterative method which can solve strongly convex problems with linear constraints and uses only one or a selected number of rows of the system matrix in each iteration, thereby making it amenable for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Dirk A. Lorenz , Maximilian Winkler

Motivated by the randomized sketch to solve a variety of problems in scientific computation, we improve both the maximal weighted residual Kaczmarz method and the randomized block average Kaczmarz method using two new randomized sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Haochen Jiang , Dongdong Liu , Xianping Wu , Xu Yang

Stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGDM) methods have become fundamental optimization tools in machine learning, combining the computational efficiency of stochastic gradients with the acceleration benefits of momentum. Despite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Zimeng Wang , Alp Yurtsever