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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 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

A greedy randomized augmented Kaczmarz (GRAK) method was proposed in [Z.-Z. Bai and W.-T. WU, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 43 (2021), pp. A3892-A3911] for large and sparse inconsistent linear systems. However, one has to construct two new index…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Shunchang Li , Gang Wu

We investigate the randomized Kaczmarz method that adaptively updates the stepsize using readily available information for solving inconsistent linear systems. A novel geometric interpretation is provided which shows that the proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Yun Zeng , Deren Han , Yansheng Su , Jiaxin Xie

In this paper, we propose a randomized accelerated method for the minimization of a strongly convex function under linear constraints. The method is of Kaczmarz-type, i.e. it only uses a single linear equation in each iteration. To obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Lionel Tondji , Dirk A. Lorenz , Ion Necoara

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

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

In this work, we shed light on the so-called Kaczmarz method for solving Linear System (LS) and Linear Feasibility (LF) problems from a optimization point of view. We introduce well-known optimization approaches such as Lagrangian penalty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Md Sarowar Morshed

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

Randomized iterative algorithms for solving a factorized linear system, $\mathbf A\mathbf B\mathbf x=\mathbf b$ with $\mathbf A\in{\mathbb{R}}^{m\times \ell}$, $\mathbf B\in{\mathbb{R}}^{\ell\times n}$, and $\mathbf b\in{\mathbb{R}}^m$,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Kui Du

The Kaczmarz method is an efficient iterative algorithm for large-scale linear systems. However, its linear convergence rate suffers from ill-conditioned problems and is highly sensitive to the smallest nonzero singular value. In this work,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Yunying Ke , Hao Luo

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Yanjun Zhang , Hanyu Li

We develop a novel, fundamental and surprisingly simple randomized iterative method for solving consistent linear systems. Our method has six different but equivalent interpretations: sketch-and-project, constrain-and-approximate, random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Robert M. Gower , Peter Richtárik

Among recent developments centered around Randomized Kaczmarz (RK), a row-sampling iterative projection method for large-scale linear systems, several adaptions to the method have inspired faster convergence. Focusing solely on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 James Nguyen , Oleg Presnyakov , Adityakrishnan Radhakhrishnan

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Yanjun Zhang , Hanyu Li

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

The block Kaczmarz method and its variants are designed for solving the over-determined linear system. They involve iteratively projecting the current point onto the solution space of a subset of constraints. In this work, by alternately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Nian-Ci Wu , Yang Zhou , Zhaolu Tian

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