On Motzkin's method for inconsistent linear systems

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Abstract: Iterative linear solvers have gained recent popularity due to their computational efficiency and low memory footprint for large-scale linear systems. The relaxation method, or Motzkin's method, can be viewed as an iterative method that projects the current estimation onto the solution hyperplane corresponding to the most violated constraint. Although this leads to an optimal selection strategy for consistent systems, for inconsistent least square problems, the strategy presents a tradeoff between convergence rate and solution accuracy. We provide a theoretical analysis that shows Motzkin's method offers an initially accelerated convergence rate and this acceleration depends on the dynamic range of the residual. We quantify this acceleration for Gaussian systems as a concrete example. Lastly, we include experimental evidence on real and synthetic systems that support the analysis.


The authors show that Motzkin's method for systems of linear equations has an initially accelerated convergence rate for residuals with a large dynamic range. Moreover they provide bounds for the iterate error in the case of full column rank matrices with normalized rows. For the particular case of Gaussian systems of linear equations the authors provide bounds on this value.





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