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We develop a generalized hybrid iterative approach for computing solutions to large-scale Bayesian inverse problems. We consider a hybrid algorithm based on the generalized Golub-Kahan bidiagonalization for computing Tikhonov regularized…
Kaczmarz is one of the most prominent iterative solvers for linear systems of equations. Despite substantial research progress in recent years, the state-of-the-art Kaczmarz algorithms have not fully resolved the seesaw effect, a major…
Stochastically controlled stochastic gradient (SCSG) methods have been proved to converge efficiently to first-order stationary points which, however, can be saddle points in nonconvex optimization. It has been observed that a stochastic…
Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of block coordinate update (BCU) methods, which are particularly suitable for problems involving large-sized data and/or variables. In optimization, BCU first appears as the coordinate…
In this paper, a fast solver is studied for saddle point system arising from a second-order Crank-Nicolson discretization of an initial-valued parabolic PDE constrained optimal control problem, which is indefinite and ill-conditioned.…
The stochastic gradient (SG) method can minimize an objective function composed of a large number of differentiable functions, or solve a stochastic optimization problem, to a moderate accuracy. The block coordinate descent/update (BCD)…
Consider the classical problem of solving a general linear system of equations $Ax=b$. It is well known that the (successively over relaxed) Gauss-Seidel scheme and many of its variants may not converge when $A$ is neither diagonally…
The Kaczmarz method is a row-action method for solving consistent non-square linear systems, and Gearhart-Koshy acceleration is a line-search that minimizes the Euclidean norm of the error along a ray in the direction of a Kaczmarz step.…
We consider convex-concave saddle point problems with a separable structure and non-strongly convex functions. We propose an efficient stochastic block coordinate descent method using adaptive primal-dual updates, which enables flexible…
We consider the solution of saddle-point systems with a tree-based block structure, introducing a parallelizable direct method for their solution. As our key contribution, we then propose several structure-exploiting preconditioners to be…
In the present study, we establish two new block variants of the Conjugate Orthogonal Conjugate Gradient (COCG) and the Conjugate A-Orthogonal Conjugate Residual (COCR) Krylov subspace methods for solving complex symmetric linear systems…
This paper addresses structured normwise, mixed, and componentwise condition numbers (CNs) for a linear function of the solution to the generalized saddle point problem (GSPP). We present a general framework that enables us to measure the…
We consider the smooth convex-concave bilinearly-coupled saddle-point problem, $\min_{\mathbf{x}}\max_{\mathbf{y}}~F(\mathbf{x}) + H(\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}) - G(\mathbf{y})$, where one has access to stochastic first-order oracles for $F$,…
A generalized skew-symmetric Lanczos bidiagonalization (GSSLBD) method is proposed to compute several extreme eigenpairs of a large matrix pair $(A,B)$, where $A$ is skew-symmetric and $B$ is symmetric positive definite. The underlying…
In this paper, we present a new stochastic algorithm, namely the stochastic block mirror descent (SBMD) method for solving large-scale nonsmooth and stochastic optimization problems. The basic idea of this algorithm is to incorporate the…
An estimation problem of fundamental interest is that of phase synchronization, in which the goal is to recover a collection of phases using noisy measurements of relative phases. It is known that in the Gaussian noise setting, the maximum…
In this paper we examine iterative methods for solving the forward ($A{\bf x}={\bf b}$) and adjoint ($A^{T}{\bf y}={\bf g}$) systems of linear equations used to approximate the scattering amplitude, defined by ${\bf g}^{T}{\bf x}={\bf…
The randomized projection (RP) method is a simple iterative scheme for solving linear feasibility problems and has recently gained popularity due to its speed and low memory requirement. This paper develops an accelerated variant of the…
In this paper, we propose an inexact multi-block ADMM-type first-order method for solving a class of high-dimensional convex composite conic optimization problems to moderate accuracy. The design of this method combines an inexact 2-block…
In this paper, the generalized shift-splitting preconditioner is implemented for saddle point problems with symmetric positive definite (1,1)-block and symmetric positive semidefinite (2,2)-block. The proposed preconditioner is extracted…