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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 an iterative technique designed to solve consistent linear systems of equations. It falls within the category of row-action methods, focusing on handling one equation per iteration. This characteristic makes it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Inês Ferreira , Juan A. Acebrón , José Monteiro

Randomized Kaczmarz (RK) is a simple and fast solver for consistent overdetermined systems, but it is known to be fragile under noise. We study overdetermined $m\times n$ linear systems with a sparse set of corrupted equations, $ {\bf…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Sofiia Shvaiko , Longxiu Huang , Elizaveta Rebrova

We obtain an improved finite-sample guarantee on the linear convergence of stochastic gradient descent for smooth and strongly convex objectives, improving from a quadratic dependence on the conditioning $(L/\mu)^2$ (where $L$ is a bound on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-19 Deanna Needell , Nathan Srebro , Rachel Ward

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

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

In [Steinerberger, Q. Appl. Math., 79:3, 419-429, 2021] and [Shao, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 44(1), 212-239, 2023], two new types of Kaczmarz algorithms, which share some similarities, for consistent linear systems were proposed. These two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Changpeng Shao

The randomized Kaczmarz methods are a popular and effective family of iterative methods for solving large-scale linear systems of equations, which have also been applied to linear feasibility problems. In this work, we propose a new block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Minxin Zhang , Jamie Haddock , Deanna Needell

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Jürgen Groß

Linear regression is effective at identifying interpretable trends in a data set, but averages out potentially different effects on subgroups within data. We propose an iterative algorithm based on the randomized Kaczmarz (RK) method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Erin George , Yotam Yaniv , Deanna Needell

Randomized regularized Kaczmarz algorithms have recently been proposed to solve tensor recovery models with {\it consistent} linear measurements. In this work, we propose a novel algorithm based on the randomized extended Kaczmarz algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Kui Du , Xiao-Hui Sun

The Kaczmarz algorithm is popular for iteratively solving an overdetermined system of linear equations. The traditional Kaczmarz algorithm can approximate the solution in few sweeps through the equations but a randomized version of the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Hemant Kumar Aggarwal , Angshul Majumdar

The randomized Kaczmarz method is an iterative algorithm that solves overdetermined systems of linear equations. Recently, the method was extended to systems of equalities and inequalities by Leventhal and Lewis. Even more recently, Needell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Jonathan Briskman , Deanna Needell

When solving noisy linear systems Ax = b + c, the theoretical and empirical performance of stochastic iterative methods, such as the Randomized Kaczmarz algorithm, depends on the noise level. However, if there are a small number of highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Jamie Haddock , Anna Ma , Elizaveta Rebrova

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

For solving large consistent linear systems by iteration methods, inspired by the maximum residual Kaczmarz method and the randomized block Kaczmarz method, we propose the maximum residual block Kaczmarz method, which is designed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Wen-Ning Sun , Mei Qin

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

To efficiently solve large scale nonlinear systems, we propose a novel Random Greedy Fast Block Kaczmarz method. This approach integrates the strengths of random and greedy strategies while avoiding the computationally expensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Renjie Ding , Dongling Wang

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

When solving linear systems $Ax=b$, $A$ and $b$ are given, but the measurements $b$ often contain corruptions. Inspired by recent work on the quantile-randomized Kaczmarz method, we propose an acceleration of the randomized Kaczmarz method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Emeric Battaglia , Anna Ma