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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math3.optim.nonlinear.scalar;
+
+import org.apache.commons.math3.optim.univariate.UnivariateOptimizer;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.optim.univariate.BrentOptimizer;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.optim.univariate.BracketFinder;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.optim.univariate.UnivariatePointValuePair;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.optim.univariate.SimpleUnivariateValueChecker;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.optim.univariate.SearchInterval;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.optim.univariate.UnivariateObjectiveFunction;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.UnivariateFunction;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.optim.MaxEval;
+
+/**
+ * Class for finding the minimum of the objective function along a given
+ * direction.
+ *
+ * @since 3.3
+ */
+public class LineSearch {
+ /**
+ * Value that will pass the precondition check for {@link BrentOptimizer}
+ * but will not pass the convergence check, so that the custom checker
+ * will always decide when to stop the line search.
+ */
+ private static final double REL_TOL_UNUSED = 1e-15;
+ /**
+ * Value that will pass the precondition check for {@link BrentOptimizer}
+ * but will not pass the convergence check, so that the custom checker
+ * will always decide when to stop the line search.
+ */
+ private static final double ABS_TOL_UNUSED = Double.MIN_VALUE;
+ /**
+ * Optimizer used for line search.
+ */
+ private final UnivariateOptimizer lineOptimizer;
+ /**
+ * Automatic bracketing.
+ */
+ private final BracketFinder bracket = new BracketFinder();
+ /**
+ * Extent of the initial interval used to find an interval that
+ * brackets the optimum.
+ */
+ private final double initialBracketingRange;
+ /**
+ * Optimizer on behalf of which the line search must be performed.
+ */
+ private final MultivariateOptimizer mainOptimizer;
+
+ /**
+ * The {@code BrentOptimizer} default stopping criterion uses the
+ * tolerances to check the domain (point) values, not the function
+ * values.
+ * The {@code relativeTolerance} and {@code absoluteTolerance}
+ * arguments are thus passed to a {@link SimpleUnivariateValueChecker
+ * custom checker} that will use the function values.
+ *
+ * @param optimizer Optimizer on behalf of which the line search
+ * be performed.
+ * Its {@link MultivariateOptimizer#computeObjectiveValue(double[])
+ * computeObjectiveValue} method will be called by the
+ * {@link #search(double[],double[]) search} method.
+ * @param relativeTolerance Search will stop when the function relative
+ * difference between successive iterations is below this value.
+ * @param absoluteTolerance Search will stop when the function absolute
+ * difference between successive iterations is below this value.
+ * @param initialBracketingRange Extent of the initial interval used to
+ * find an interval that brackets the optimum.
+ * If the optimized function varies a lot in the vicinity of the optimum,
+ * it may be necessary to provide a value lower than the distance between
+ * successive local minima.
+ */
+ public LineSearch(MultivariateOptimizer optimizer,
+ double relativeTolerance,
+ double absoluteTolerance,
+ double initialBracketingRange) {
+ mainOptimizer = optimizer;
+ lineOptimizer = new BrentOptimizer(REL_TOL_UNUSED,
+ ABS_TOL_UNUSED,
+ new SimpleUnivariateValueChecker(relativeTolerance,
+ absoluteTolerance));
+ this.initialBracketingRange = initialBracketingRange;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Finds the number {@code alpha} that optimizes
+ * {@code f(startPoint + alpha * direction)}.
+ *
+ * @param startPoint Starting point.
+ * @param direction Search direction.
+ * @return the optimum.
+ * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.TooManyEvaluationsException
+ * if the number of evaluations is exceeded.
+ */
+ public UnivariatePointValuePair search(final double[] startPoint,
+ final double[] direction) {
+ final int n = startPoint.length;
+ final UnivariateFunction f = new UnivariateFunction() {
+ /** {@inheritDoc} */
+ public double value(double alpha) {
+ final double[] x = new double[n];
+ for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+ x[i] = startPoint[i] + alpha * direction[i];
+ }
+ final double obj = mainOptimizer.computeObjectiveValue(x);
+ return obj;
+ }
+ };
+
+ final GoalType goal = mainOptimizer.getGoalType();
+ bracket.search(f, goal, 0, initialBracketingRange);
+ // Passing "MAX_VALUE" as a dummy value because it is the enclosing
+ // class that counts the number of evaluations (and will eventually
+ // generate the exception).
+ return lineOptimizer.optimize(new MaxEval(Integer.MAX_VALUE),
+ new UnivariateObjectiveFunction(f),
+ goal,
+ new SearchInterval(bracket.getLo(),
+ bracket.getHi(),
+ bracket.getMid()));
+ }
+}