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Kaczmarz Kac Walk

Numerical Analysis 2024-11-12 v1 Numerical Analysis Probability

Abstract

The Kaczmarz method is a way to iteratively solve a linear system of equations Ax=bAx = b. One interprets the solution xx as the point where hyperplanes intersect and then iteratively projects an approximate solution onto these hyperplanes to get better and better approximations. We note a somewhat related idea: one could take two random hyperplanes and project one into the orthogonal complement of the other. This leads to a sequence of linear systems A(k)x=b(k)A^{(k)} x = b^{(k)} which is fast to compute, preserves the original solution and whose small singular values grow like σ(A(k))exp(k/n2)σ(A)\sigma_{\ell}(A^{(k)}) \sim \exp(k/n^2) \cdot \sigma_{\ell}(A).

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@article{arxiv.2411.06614,
  title  = {Kaczmarz Kac Walk},
  author = {Stefan Steinerberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.06614},
  year   = {2024}
}
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