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+// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
+// Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
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+// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
+
+#ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_PARAMETER_BLOCK_ORDERING_H_
+#define CERES_INTERNAL_PARAMETER_BLOCK_ORDERING_H_
+
+#include <vector>
+#include "ceres/ordered_groups.h"
+#include "ceres/graph.h"
+#include "ceres/types.h"
+
+namespace ceres {
+namespace internal {
+
+class Program;
+class ParameterBlock;
+
+// Uses an approximate independent set ordering to order the parameter
+// blocks of a problem so that it is suitable for use with Schur
+// complement based solvers. The output variable ordering contains an
+// ordering of the parameter blocks and the return value is size of
+// the independent set or the number of e_blocks (see
+// schur_complement_solver.h for an explanation). Constant parameters
+// are added to the end.
+//
+// The ordering vector has the structure
+//
+// ordering = [independent set,
+//             complement of the independent set,
+//             fixed blocks]
+int ComputeSchurOrdering(const Program& program,
+                         vector<ParameterBlock* >* ordering);
+
+// Use an approximate independent set ordering to decompose the
+// parameter blocks of a problem in a sequence of independent
+// sets. The ordering covers all the non-constant parameter blocks in
+// the program.
+void ComputeRecursiveIndependentSetOrdering(const Program& program,
+                                            ParameterBlockOrdering* ordering);
+
+// Builds a graph on the parameter blocks of a Problem, whose
+// structure reflects the sparsity structure of the Hessian. Each
+// vertex corresponds to a parameter block in the Problem except for
+// parameter blocks that are marked constant. An edge connects two
+// parameter blocks, if they co-occur in a residual block.
+Graph<ParameterBlock*>* CreateHessianGraph(const Program& program);
+
+}  // namespace internal
+}  // namespace ceres
+
+#endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_PARAMETER_BLOCK_ORDERING_H_