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      1 // Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
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     29 // Author: sameeragarwal (at) google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
     30 
     31 #ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_TRUST_REGION_STRATEGY_H_
     32 #define CERES_INTERNAL_TRUST_REGION_STRATEGY_H_
     33 
     34 #include "ceres/types.h"
     35 
     36 namespace ceres {
     37 namespace internal {
     38 
     39 class LinearSolver;
     40 class SparseMatrix;
     41 
     42 // Interface for classes implementing various trust region strategies
     43 // for nonlinear least squares problems.
     44 //
     45 // The object is expected to maintain and update a trust region
     46 // radius, which it then uses to solve for the trust region step using
     47 // the jacobian matrix and residual vector.
     48 //
     49 // Here the term trust region radius is used loosely, as the strategy
     50 // is free to treat it as guidance and violate it as need be. e.g.,
     51 // the LevenbergMarquardtStrategy uses the inverse of the trust region
     52 // radius to scale the damping term, which controls the step size, but
     53 // does not set a hard limit on its size.
     54 class TrustRegionStrategy {
     55 public:
     56   struct Options {
     57     Options()
     58         : trust_region_strategy_type(LEVENBERG_MARQUARDT),
     59           initial_radius(1e4),
     60           max_radius(1e32),
     61           lm_min_diagonal(1e-6),
     62           lm_max_diagonal(1e32),
     63           dogleg_type(TRADITIONAL_DOGLEG) {
     64     }
     65 
     66     TrustRegionStrategyType trust_region_strategy_type;
     67     // Linear solver used for actually solving the trust region step.
     68     LinearSolver* linear_solver;
     69     double initial_radius;
     70     double max_radius;
     71 
     72     // Minimum and maximum values of the diagonal damping matrix used
     73     // by LevenbergMarquardtStrategy. The DoglegStrategy also uses
     74     // these bounds to construct a regularizing diagonal to ensure
     75     // that the Gauss-Newton step computation is of full rank.
     76     double lm_min_diagonal;
     77     double lm_max_diagonal;
     78 
     79     // Further specify which dogleg method to use
     80     DoglegType dogleg_type;
     81   };
     82 
     83   // Per solve options.
     84   struct PerSolveOptions {
     85     // Forcing sequence for inexact solves.
     86     double eta;
     87   };
     88 
     89   struct Summary {
     90     Summary()
     91         : residual_norm(0.0),
     92           num_iterations(-1),
     93           termination_type(FAILURE) {
     94     }
     95 
     96     // If the trust region problem is,
     97     //
     98     //   1/2 x'Ax + b'x + c,
     99     //
    100     // then
    101     //
    102     //   residual_norm = |Ax -b|
    103     double residual_norm;
    104 
    105     // Number of iterations used by the linear solver. If a linear
    106     // solver was not called (e.g., DogLegStrategy after an
    107     // unsuccessful step), then this would be zero.
    108     int num_iterations;
    109 
    110     // Status of the linear solver used to solve the Newton system.
    111     LinearSolverTerminationType termination_type;
    112   };
    113 
    114   virtual ~TrustRegionStrategy();
    115 
    116   // Use the current radius to solve for the trust region step.
    117   virtual Summary ComputeStep(const PerSolveOptions& per_solve_options,
    118                               SparseMatrix* jacobian,
    119                               const double* residuals,
    120                               double* step) = 0;
    121 
    122   // Inform the strategy that the current step has been accepted, and
    123   // that the ratio of the decrease in the non-linear objective to the
    124   // decrease in the trust region model is step_quality.
    125   virtual void StepAccepted(double step_quality) = 0;
    126 
    127   // Inform the strategy that the current step has been rejected, and
    128   // that the ratio of the decrease in the non-linear objective to the
    129   // decrease in the trust region model is step_quality.
    130   virtual void StepRejected(double step_quality) = 0;
    131 
    132   // Inform the strategy that the current step has been rejected
    133   // because it was found to be numerically invalid.
    134   // StepRejected/StepAccepted will not be called for this step, and
    135   // the strategy is free to do what it wants with this information.
    136   virtual void StepIsInvalid() = 0;
    137 
    138   // Current trust region radius.
    139   virtual double Radius() const = 0;
    140 
    141   // Factory.
    142   static TrustRegionStrategy* Create(const Options& options);
    143 };
    144 
    145 }  // namespace internal
    146 }  // namespace ceres
    147 
    148 #endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_TRUST_REGION_STRATEGY_H_
    149