A Note on the Randomized Kaczmarz Algorithm for Solving Doubly Noisy Linear Systems

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 992-1006, June 2024.
Abstract. Large-scale linear systems, [math], frequently arise in practice and demand effective iterative solvers. Often, these systems are noisy due to operational errors or faulty data-collection processes. In the past decade, the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm (RK) has been studied extensively as an efficient iterative solver for such systems. However, the convergence study of RK in the noisy regime is limited and considers measurement noise in the right-hand side vector, [math]. Unfortunately, in practice, that is not always the case; the coefficient matrix [math] can also be noisy. In this paper, we analyze the convergence of RK for doubly noisy linear systems, i.e., when the coefficient matrix, [math], has additive or multiplicative noise, and [math] is also noisy. In our analyses, the quantity [math] influences the convergence of RK, where [math] represents a noisy version of [math]. We claim that our analysis is robust and realistically applicable, as we do not require information about the noiseless coefficient matrix, [math], and by considering different conditions on noise, we can control the convergence of RK. We perform numerical experiments to substantiate our theoretical findings.