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// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
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// Author: moll.markus@arcor.de (Markus Moll)
// sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
#ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_POLYNOMIAL_SOLVER_H_
#define CERES_INTERNAL_POLYNOMIAL_SOLVER_H_
#include <vector>
#include "ceres/internal/disable_warnings.h"
#include "ceres/internal/eigen.h"
#include "ceres/internal/export.h"
namespace ceres::internal {
struct FunctionSample;
// All polynomials are assumed to be the form
//
// sum_{i=0}^N polynomial(i) x^{N-i}.
//
// and are given by a vector of coefficients of size N + 1.
// Evaluate the polynomial at x using the Horner scheme.
CERES_NO_EXPORT
inline double EvaluatePolynomial(const Vector& polynomial, double x) {
double v = 0.0;
for (int i = 0; i < polynomial.size(); ++i) {
v = v * x + polynomial(i);
}
return v;
}
// Use the companion matrix eigenvalues to determine the roots of the
// polynomial.
//
// This function returns true on success, false otherwise.
// Failure indicates that the polynomial is invalid (of size 0) or
// that the eigenvalues of the companion matrix could not be computed.
// On failure, a more detailed message will be written to LOG(ERROR).
// If real is not nullptr, the real parts of the roots will be returned in it.
// Likewise, if imaginary is not nullptr, imaginary parts will be returned in
// it.
CERES_NO_EXPORT bool FindPolynomialRoots(const Vector& polynomial,
Vector* real,
Vector* imaginary);
// Return the derivative of the given polynomial. It is assumed that
// the input polynomial is at least of degree zero.
CERES_NO_EXPORT Vector DifferentiatePolynomial(const Vector& polynomial);
// Find the minimum value of the polynomial in the interval [x_min,
// x_max]. The minimum is obtained by computing all the roots of the
// derivative of the input polynomial. All real roots within the
// interval [x_min, x_max] are considered as well as the end points
// x_min and x_max. Since polynomials are differentiable functions,
// this ensures that the true minimum is found.
CERES_NO_EXPORT void MinimizePolynomial(const Vector& polynomial,
double x_min,
double x_max,
double* optimal_x,
double* optimal_value);
// Given a set of function value and/or gradient samples, find a
// polynomial whose value and gradients are exactly equal to the ones
// in samples.
//
// Generally speaking,
//
// degree = # values + # gradients - 1
//
// Of course its possible to sample a polynomial any number of times,
// in which case, generally speaking the spurious higher order
// coefficients will be zero.
CERES_NO_EXPORT Vector
FindInterpolatingPolynomial(const std::vector<FunctionSample>& samples);
// Interpolate the function described by samples with a polynomial,
// and minimize it on the interval [x_min, x_max]. Depending on the
// input samples, it is possible that the interpolation or the root
// finding algorithms may fail due to numerical difficulties. But the
// function is guaranteed to return its best guess of an answer, by
// considering the samples and the end points as possible solutions.
CERES_NO_EXPORT void MinimizeInterpolatingPolynomial(
const std::vector<FunctionSample>& samples,
double x_min,
double x_max,
double* optimal_x,
double* optimal_value);
} // namespace ceres::internal
#include "ceres/internal/reenable_warnings.h"
#endif // CERES_INTERNAL_POLYNOMIAL_SOLVER_H_