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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…

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We present a new algorithm for computing the quasi-stationary distribution of subcritical Galton--Watson branching processes. This algorithm is based on a particular discretization of a well-known functional equation that characterizes the…

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We present a Waveform Relaxation (WR) version of the Dirichlet-Neumann and Neumann-Neumann algorithms for the wave equation in space time. Each method is based on a non-overlapping spatial domain decomposition, and the iteration involves…

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We study the problem of minimizing the sum of potentially non-differentiable convex cost functions with partially overlapping dependences in an asynchronous manner, where communication in the network is not coordinated. We study the…

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