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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_PARAMETER_BLOCK_ORDERING_H_
     32 #define CERES_INTERNAL_PARAMETER_BLOCK_ORDERING_H_
     33 
     34 #include <vector>
     35 #include "ceres/ordered_groups.h"
     36 #include "ceres/graph.h"
     37 #include "ceres/types.h"
     38 
     39 namespace ceres {
     40 namespace internal {
     41 
     42 class Program;
     43 class ParameterBlock;
     44 
     45 // Uses an approximate independent set ordering to order the parameter
     46 // blocks of a problem so that it is suitable for use with Schur
     47 // complement based solvers. The output variable ordering contains an
     48 // ordering of the parameter blocks and the return value is size of
     49 // the independent set or the number of e_blocks (see
     50 // schur_complement_solver.h for an explanation). Constant parameters
     51 // are added to the end.
     52 //
     53 // The ordering vector has the structure
     54 //
     55 // ordering = [independent set,
     56 //             complement of the independent set,
     57 //             fixed blocks]
     58 int ComputeSchurOrdering(const Program& program,
     59                          vector<ParameterBlock* >* ordering);
     60 
     61 // Same as above, except that ties while computing the independent set
     62 // ordering are resolved in favour of the order in which the parameter
     63 // blocks occur in the program.
     64 int ComputeStableSchurOrdering(const Program& program,
     65                                vector<ParameterBlock* >* ordering);
     66 
     67 // Use an approximate independent set ordering to decompose the
     68 // parameter blocks of a problem in a sequence of independent
     69 // sets. The ordering covers all the non-constant parameter blocks in
     70 // the program.
     71 void ComputeRecursiveIndependentSetOrdering(const Program& program,
     72                                             ParameterBlockOrdering* ordering);
     73 
     74 // Builds a graph on the parameter blocks of a Problem, whose
     75 // structure reflects the sparsity structure of the Hessian. Each
     76 // vertex corresponds to a parameter block in the Problem except for
     77 // parameter blocks that are marked constant. An edge connects two
     78 // parameter blocks, if they co-occur in a residual block.
     79 Graph<ParameterBlock*>* CreateHessianGraph(const Program& program);
     80 
     81 // Iterate over each of the groups in order of their priority and fill
     82 // summary with their sizes.
     83 void OrderingToGroupSizes(const ParameterBlockOrdering* ordering,
     84                           vector<int>* group_sizes);
     85 
     86 }  // namespace internal
     87 }  // namespace ceres
     88 
     89 #endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_PARAMETER_BLOCK_ORDERING_H_
     90