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Randomized Kaczmarz methods form a family of linear system solvers which converge by repeatedly projecting their iterates onto randomly sampled equations. While effective in some contexts, such as highly over-determined least squares,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Michał Dereziński , Deanna Needell , Elizaveta Rebrova , Jiaming Yang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Shunchang Li , Gang Wu

The Kaczmarz algorithm is a simple iterative scheme for solving consistent linear systems. At each step, the method projects the current iterate onto the solution space of a single constraint. Hence, it requires very low cost per iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Ion Necoara

The Kaczmarz algorithm is a popular solver for overdetermined linear systems due to its simplicity and speed. In this paper, we propose a modification that speeds up the convergence of the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm for systems of linear…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Hassan Mansour , Ozgur Yilmaz

We investigate iterated Tikhonov methods coupled with a Kaczmarz strategy for obtaining stable solutions of nonlinear systems of ill-posed operator equations. We show that the proposed method is a convergent regularization method. In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 J. Baumeister , A. De Cezaro , A. Leitao

Kaczmarz's alternating projection method has been widely used for solving a consistent (mostly over-determined) linear system of equations Ax=b. Because of its simple iterative nature with light computation, this method was successfully…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Tim Wallace , Ali Sekmen

Randomized iterative algorithms, such as the randomized Kaczmarz method, have gained considerable popularity due to their efficacy in solving matrix-vector and matrix-matrix regression problems. Our present work leverages the insights…

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

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

The randomized version of the Kaczmarz method for the solution of linear systems is known to converge linearly in expectation. In this work we extend this result and show that the recently proposed Randomized Sparse Kaczmarz method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Frank Schöpfer , Dirk A. Lorenz

Stochastic iterative algorithms such as the Kaczmarz and Gauss-Seidel methods have gained recent attention because of their speed, simplicity, and the ability to approximately solve large-scale linear systems of equations without needing to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Anna Ma , Deanna Needell , Aaditya Ramdas

Stochastic iterative methods are useful in a variety of large-scale numerical linear algebraic, machine learning, and statistical problems, in part due to their low-memory footprint. They are frequently used in a variety of applications,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Toby Anderson , Max Collins , Jamie Haddock , Jackie Lok , Elizaveta Rebrova

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

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

The Kaczmarz method is a popular iterative scheme for solving large-scale linear systems. The randomized Kaczmarz method (RK) greatly improves the convergence rate of the Kaczmarz method, by using the rows of the coefficient matrix in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Yutong Jiang , Gang Wu , Long Jiang

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

To conduct a more in-depth investigation of randomized solvers for solving linear systems, we adopt a unified randomized batch-sampling Kaczmarz framework with per-iteration costs as low as cyclic block methods, and develop a general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Dong-Yue Xie , Xi Yang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Jacob D. Moorman , Thomas K. Tu , Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell

The Kaczmarz method is an iterative method for solving overcomplete linear systems of equations Ax=b. The randomized version of the Kaczmarz method put forth by Strohmer and Vershynin iteratively projects onto a randomly chosen solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Deanna Needell , Ran Zhao , Anastasios Zouzias

We provide a complete characterization of the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm (RKA) for inconsistent linear systems. The Kaczmarz algorithm, known in some fields as the algebraic reconstruction technique, is a classical method for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Chuang Wang , Ameya Agaskar , Yue M. Lu