Document Type
Article - postprint
Department
Mathematics (CMC)
Publication Date
2-12-2011
Abstract
The Kaczmarz method is an algorithm for finding the solution to an overdetermined consistent system of linear equations Ax=b by iteratively projecting onto the solution spaces. The randomized version put forth by Strohmer and Vershynin yields provably exponential convergence in expectation, which for highly overdetermined systems even outperforms the conjugate gradient method. In this article we present a modified version of the randomized Kaczmarz method which at each iteration selects the optimal projection from a randomly chosen set, which in most cases significantly improves the convergence rate. We utilize a Johnson-Lindenstrauss dimension reduction technique to keep the runtime on the same order as the original randomized version, adding only extra preprocessing time. We present a series of empirical studies which demonstrate the remarkable acceleration in convergence to the solution using this modified approach.
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Recommended Citation
Eldar, Y. C., Needell, D., "Acceleration of Randomized Kaczmarz Method via the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma", Numerical Algorithms, vol. 58, num. 2, pp. 163-177, 2011.
