A fast randomized Kaczmarz algorithm for sparse solutions of consistent linear systems

arXiv1305.3803MaRDI QIDQ6241971FDOQ6241971

Özgür Yılmaz, Hassan Mansour

Publication date: 16 May 2013

Abstract: 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 equations with sparse solutions. The speedup is achieved by projecting every iterate onto a weighted row of the linear system while maintaining the random row selection criteria of Strohmer and Vershynin. The weights are chosen to attenuate the contribution of row elements that lie outside of the estimated support of the sparse solution. While the Kaczmarz algorithm and its variants can only find solutions to overdetermined linear systems, our algorithm surprisingly succeeds in finding sparse solutions to underdetermined linear systems as well. We present empirical studies which demonstrate the acceleration in convergence to the sparse solution using this modified approach in the overdetermined case. We also demonstrate the sparse recovery capabilities of our approach in the underdetermined case and compare the performance with that of $el{l}_1$ minimization.

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