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The Kaczmarz method is an iterative method for solving large systems of equations that projects iterates orthogonally onto the solution space of each equation. In contrast to direct methods such as Gaussian elimination or QR-factorization,…
Stochastic projection algorithms for solving convex feasibility problems (CFPs) have attracted considerable attention due to their broad applicability. In this paper, we propose a unified stochastic bilevel reformulation for possibly…
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…
Inverse problems are common and important in many applications in computational physics but are inherently ill-posed with many possible model parameters resulting in satisfactory results in the observation space. When solving the inverse…
This paper presents a novel algorithm integrating global and robust optimization methods to solve continuous non-convex quadratic problems under convex uncertainty sets. The proposed Robust spatial branch-and-bound (RsBB) algorithm combines…
The Kaczmarz method is a way to iteratively solve a linear system of equations $Ax = b$. One interprets the solution $x$ as the point where hyperplanes intersect and then iteratively projects an approximate solution onto these hyperplanes…
This paper introduces an abstract framework for randomized subspace correction methods for convex optimization, which unifies and generalizes a broad class of existing algorithms, including domain decomposition, multigrid, and block…
We present a variety of projection-based linear regression algorithms with a focus on modern machine-learning models and their algorithmic performance. We study the role of the relaxation parameter in generalized Kaczmarz algorithms and…
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…
Information Bottleneck (IB) is a technique to extract information about one target random variable through another relevant random variable. This technique has garnered significant interest due to its broad applications in information…
This article introduces randomized block Gram-Schmidt process (RBGS) for QR decomposition. RBGS extends the single-vector randomized Gram-Schmidt (RGS) algorithm and inherits its key characteristics such as being more efficient and having…
The randomized extended Kaczmarz and Gauss-Seidel algorithms have attracted much attention because of their ability to treat all types of linear systems (consistent or inconsistent, full rank or rank-deficient). In this paper, we interpret…
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…
The sampling Kaczmarz-Motzkin (SKM) method is a generalization of the randomized Kaczmarz and Motzkin methods. It first samples some rows of coefficient matrix randomly to build a set and then makes use of the maximum violation criterion…
This paper first proposes an N-block PCPM algorithm to solve N-block convex optimization problems with both linear and nonlinear constraints, with global convergence established. A linear convergence rate under the strong second-order…
In this paper, we consider a novel two-dimensional randomized Kaczmarz method and its improved version with simple random sampling, which chooses two active rows with probability proportional to the square of their cross-product-like…
In this paper, we consider the standard forms of two kinds of Kaczmarz-Tanabe type methods, one is derived from the Kaczmarz method and the other is derived from the symmetric Kaczmarz method. As a famous image reconstruction method in…
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,…
In this paper, we investigate the Kaczmarz-Tanabe method for exact and inexact linear systems. The Kaczmarz-Tanabe method is derived from the Kaczmarz method, but is more stable than that. We analyze the convergence and the convergence rate…
In this paper we analyze the randomized block-coordinate descent (RBCD) methods proposed in [8,11] for minimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a block-separable convex function. In particular, we extend Nesterov's technique…