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+// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
+// Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+// http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/
+//
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+// Author: keir@google.com (Keir Mierle)
+//
+// A simple example of using the Ceres minimizer.
+//
+// Minimize 0.5 (10 - x)^2 using analytic jacobian matrix.
+
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "ceres/ceres.h"
+
+using ceres::SizedCostFunction;
+using ceres::Problem;
+using ceres::Solver;
+using ceres::Solve;
+
+class SimpleCostFunction
+  : public SizedCostFunction<1 /* number of residuals */,
+                             1 /* size of first parameter */> {
+ public:
+  virtual ~SimpleCostFunction() {}
+  virtual bool Evaluate(double const* const* parameters,
+                        double* residuals,
+                        double** jacobians) const {
+    double x = parameters[0][0];
+
+    // f(x) = 10 - x.
+    residuals[0] = 10 - x;
+
+    // f'(x) = -1. Since there's only 1 parameter and that parameter
+    // has 1 dimension, there is only 1 element to fill in the
+    // jacobians.
+    if (jacobians != NULL && jacobians[0] != NULL) {
+      jacobians[0][0] = -1;
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+};
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv) {
+  google::ParseCommandLineFlags(&argc, &argv, true);
+  google::InitGoogleLogging(argv[0]);
+
+  // The variable with its initial value that we will be solving for.
+  double x = 5.0;
+
+  // Build the problem.
+  Problem problem;
+  // Set up the only cost function (also known as residual).
+  problem.AddResidualBlock(new SimpleCostFunction, NULL, &x);
+
+  // Run the solver!
+  Solver::Options options;
+  options.max_num_iterations = 10;
+  options.linear_solver_type = ceres::DENSE_QR;
+  options.minimizer_progress_to_stdout = true;
+  Solver::Summary summary;
+  Solve(options, &problem, &summary);
+  std::cout << summary.BriefReport() << "\n";
+  std::cout << "x : 5.0 -> " << x << "\n";
+  return 0;
+}