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Main Authors: Epperly, Ethan N., Goldshlager, Gil, Webber, Robert J.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19877
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author Epperly, Ethan N.
Goldshlager, Gil
Webber, Robert J.
author_facet Epperly, Ethan N.
Goldshlager, Gil
Webber, Robert J.
contents The randomized Kaczmarz (RK) method is a well-known approach for solving linear least-squares problems with a large number of rows. RK accesses and processes just one row at a time, leading to exponentially fast convergence for consistent linear systems. However, RK fails to converge to the least-squares solution for inconsistent systems. This work presents a simple fix: average the RK iterates produced in the tail part of the algorithm. The proposed tail-averaged randomized Kaczmarz (TARK) converges for both consistent and inconsistent least-squares problems at a polynomial rate, which is known to be optimal for any row-access method. An extension of TARK also leads to efficient solutions for ridge-regularized least-squares problems.
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spellingShingle Randomized Kaczmarz with tail averaging
Epperly, Ethan N.
Goldshlager, Gil
Webber, Robert J.
Numerical Analysis
The randomized Kaczmarz (RK) method is a well-known approach for solving linear least-squares problems with a large number of rows. RK accesses and processes just one row at a time, leading to exponentially fast convergence for consistent linear systems. However, RK fails to converge to the least-squares solution for inconsistent systems. This work presents a simple fix: average the RK iterates produced in the tail part of the algorithm. The proposed tail-averaged randomized Kaczmarz (TARK) converges for both consistent and inconsistent least-squares problems at a polynomial rate, which is known to be optimal for any row-access method. An extension of TARK also leads to efficient solutions for ridge-regularized least-squares problems.
title Randomized Kaczmarz with tail averaging
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19877