internal/ceres/dogleg_strategy.h

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// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)

#ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_DOGLEG_STRATEGY_H_
#define CERES_INTERNAL_DOGLEG_STRATEGY_H_

#include "ceres/linear_solver.h"
#include "ceres/trust_region_strategy.h"

namespace ceres {
namespace internal {

// Dogleg step computation and trust region sizing strategy based on
// on "Methods for Nonlinear Least Squares" by K. Madsen, H.B. Nielsen
// and O. Tingleff. Available to download from
//
// http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/edoc_download.php/3215/pdf/imm3215.pdf
//
// One minor modification is that instead of computing the pure
// Gauss-Newton step, we compute a regularized version of it. This is
// because the Jacobian is often rank-deficient and in such cases
// using a direct solver leads to numerical failure.
class DoglegStrategy : public TrustRegionStrategy {
public:
  DoglegStrategy(const TrustRegionStrategy::Options& options);
  virtual ~DoglegStrategy() {}

  // TrustRegionStrategy interface
  virtual LinearSolver::Summary ComputeStep(
      const TrustRegionStrategy::PerSolveOptions& per_solve_options,
      SparseMatrix* jacobian,
      const double* residuals,
      double* step);
  virtual void StepAccepted(double step_quality);
  virtual void StepRejected(double step_quality);
  virtual void StepIsInvalid();

  virtual double Radius() const;

 private:
  void ComputeCauchyStep();
  LinearSolver::Summary ComputeGaussNewtonStep(SparseMatrix* jacobian,
                                               const double* residuals);
  void ComputeDoglegStep(double* step);

  LinearSolver* linear_solver_;
  double radius_;
  const double max_radius_;

  const double min_diagonal_;
  const double max_diagonal_;

  // mu is used to scale the diagonal matrix used to make the
  // Gauss-Newton solve full rank. In each solve, the strategy starts
  // out with mu = min_mu, and tries values upto max_mu. If the user
  // reports an invalid step, the value of mu_ is increased so that
  // the next solve starts with a stronger regularization.
  //
  // If a successful step is reported, then the value of mu_ is
  // decreased with a lower bound of min_mu_.
  double mu_;
  const double min_mu_;
  const double max_mu_;
  const double mu_increase_factor_;
  const double increase_threshold_;
  const double decrease_threshold_;

  Vector diagonal_;
  Vector lm_diagonal_;

  Vector gradient_;
  Vector gauss_newton_step_;

  // cauchy_step = alpha * gradient
  double alpha_;
  double dogleg_step_norm_;

  // When, ComputeStep is called, reuse_ indicates whether the
  // Gauss-Newton and Cauchy steps from the last call to ComputeStep
  // can be reused or not.
  //
  // If the user called StepAccepted, then it is expected that the
  // user has recomputed the Jacobian matrix and new Gauss-Newton
  // solve is needed and reuse is set to false.
  //
  // If the user called StepRejected, then it is expected that the
  // user wants to solve the trust region problem with the same matrix
  // but a different trust region radius and the Gauss-Newton and
  // Cauchy steps can be reused to compute the Dogleg, thus reuse is
  // set to true.
  //
  // If the user called StepIsInvalid, then there was a numerical
  // problem with the step computed in the last call to ComputeStep,
  // and the regularization used to do the Gauss-Newton solve is
  // increased and a new solve should be done when ComputeStep is
  // called again, thus reuse is set to false.
  bool reuse_;
};

}  // namespace internal
}  // namespace ceres

#endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_DOGLEG_STRATEGY_H_