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The randomized Kaczmarz (RK) method is an iterative method for approximating the least-squares solution of large linear systems of equations. The standard RK method uses sequential updates, making parallel computation difficult. Here, we…
Randomized iterative algorithms have recently been proposed to solve large-scale linear systems. In this paper, we present a simple randomized extended block Kaczmarz algorithm that exponentially converges in the mean square to the unique…
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…
The Sparse Kaczmarz method is a famous and widely used iterative method for solving the regularized basis pursuit problem. A general scheme of the surrogate hyperplane sparse Kaczmarz method is proposed. In particular, a class of…
Randomized Kaczmarz-type methods are widely used for their simplicity and efficiency in solving large-scale linear systems and optimization problems. However, their applicability is limited when dealing with inconsistent systems or…
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…
Precision matrix is of significant importance in a wide range of applications in multivariate analysis. This paper considers adaptive minimax estimation of sparse precision matrices in the high dimensional setting. Optimal rates of…
Dual averaging-type methods are widely used in industrial machine learning applications due to their ability to promoting solution structure (e.g., sparsity) efficiently. In this paper, we propose a novel accelerated dual-averaging…
This paper considers sequential adaptive estimation of sparse signals under a constraint on the total sensing effort. The advantage of adaptivity in this context is the ability to focus more resources on regions of space where signal…
We study the problem of minimizing the average of a large number of smooth convex functions penalized with a strongly convex regularizer. We propose and analyze a novel primal-dual method (Quartz) which at every iteration samples and…
Recovering a signal $x^\ast \in \mathbb{R}^n$ from a sequence of linear measurements is an important problem in areas such as computerized tomography and compressed sensing. In this work, we consider an online setting in which measurements…
The recently proposed Sampling Kaczmarz Motzkin (SKM) algorithm performs well in comparison with the state-of-the-art methods in solving large-scale Linear Feasibility (LF) problems. To explore the concept of momentum in the context of…
Score-based diffusion models, while achieving minimax optimality for sampling, are often hampered by slow sampling speeds due to the high computational burden of score function evaluations. Despite the recent remarkable empirical advances…
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…
In this paper, we develop a new accelerated stochastic gradient method for efficiently solving the convex regularized empirical risk minimization problem in mini-batch settings. The use of mini-batches is becoming a golden standard in the…
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…
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…
We propose adaptive, line search-free second-order methods with optimal rate of convergence for solving convex-concave min-max problems. By means of an adaptive step size, our algorithms feature a simple update rule that requires solving…
We present new adaptive sampling rules for the sketch-and-project method for solving linear systems. To deduce our new sampling rules, we first show how the progress of one step of the sketch-and-project method depends directly on a…
An algorithmic framework to compute sparse or minimal-TV solutions of linear systems is proposed. The framework includes both the Kaczmarz method and the linearized Bregman method as special cases and also several new methods such as a…