Randomized Kaczmarz with tail averaging

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This interesting paper relates to the randmomized Kaczmarz method with tail averaging. To set the scene, the overdetermined linear least-squares problem is given as \(\min_{x\in \mathbb R^d}||b-Ax||^2\) where \(A\in R^{n\times d}\), \(b\in \mathbb R^n\) and \(n>d\). The problem is classical in that it has vast applications in many areas for example statistics, scientific computation, machine learning and many others. It is also well known that when the number of rows is large, computing the solution by direct means is memory-intensive. In the consistent case \(b=Ax^*\), row-acess methods, for example randomized Kaczmarz, yield exponential convergence. However, in the inconsistent case where \(b\neq Ax*\), randomized Kaczmarz converges up to a finite horizon. The point of this paper is to show that by combining randomized Kaczmarz with a certain tail averaging overcomes this horizon convergence barrier. \N\NThe paper is well written with a good set of references.











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