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// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
#ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_ITERATIVE_REFINER_H_
#define CERES_INTERNAL_ITERATIVE_REFINER_H_
// This include must come before any #ifndef check on Ceres compile options.
// clang-format off
#include "ceres/internal/config.h"
// clang-format on
#include "ceres/internal/eigen.h"
#include "ceres/internal/export.h"
namespace ceres {
namespace internal {
class SparseCholesky;
class SparseMatrix;
// Iterative refinement
// (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_refinement) is the process
// of improving the solution to a linear system, by using the
// following iteration.
//
// r_i = b - Ax_i
// Ad_i = r_i
// x_{i+1} = x_i + d_i
//
// IterativeRefiner implements this process for Symmetric Positive
// Definite linear systems.
//
// The above iterative loop is run until max_num_iterations is reached.
class CERES_NO_EXPORT IterativeRefiner {
public:
// max_num_iterations is the number of refinement iterations to
// perform.
explicit IterativeRefiner(int max_num_iterations);
// Needed for mocking.
virtual ~IterativeRefiner();
// Given an initial estimate of the solution of lhs * x = rhs, use
// max_num_iterations rounds of iterative refinement to improve it.
//
// sparse_cholesky is assumed to contain an already computed
// factorization (or approximation thereof) of lhs.
//
// solution is expected to contain a approximation to the solution
// to lhs * x = rhs. It can be zero.
//
// This method is virtual to facilitate mocking.
virtual void Refine(const SparseMatrix& lhs,
const double* rhs,
SparseCholesky* sparse_cholesky,
double* solution);
private:
void Allocate(int num_cols);
int max_num_iterations_;
Vector residual_;
Vector correction_;
Vector lhs_x_solution_;
};
} // namespace internal
} // namespace ceres
#endif // CERES_INTERNAL_ITERATIVE_REFINER_H_