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+// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
+// Copyright 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+// http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/
+//
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+//
+// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
+
+#include "ceres/internal/eigen.h"
+#include "ceres/low_rank_inverse_hessian.h"
+#include "glog/logging.h"
+
+namespace ceres {
+namespace internal {
+
+LowRankInverseHessian::LowRankInverseHessian(
+ int num_parameters,
+ int max_num_corrections,
+ bool use_approximate_eigenvalue_scaling)
+ : num_parameters_(num_parameters),
+ max_num_corrections_(max_num_corrections),
+ use_approximate_eigenvalue_scaling_(use_approximate_eigenvalue_scaling),
+ num_corrections_(0),
+ approximate_eigenvalue_scale_(1.0),
+ delta_x_history_(num_parameters, max_num_corrections),
+ delta_gradient_history_(num_parameters, max_num_corrections),
+ delta_x_dot_delta_gradient_(max_num_corrections) {
+}
+
+bool LowRankInverseHessian::Update(const Vector& delta_x,
+ const Vector& delta_gradient) {
+ const double delta_x_dot_delta_gradient = delta_x.dot(delta_gradient);
+ if (delta_x_dot_delta_gradient <= 1e-10) {
+ VLOG(2) << "Skipping LBFGS Update, delta_x_dot_delta_gradient too small: "
+ << delta_x_dot_delta_gradient;
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ if (num_corrections_ == max_num_corrections_) {
+ // TODO(sameeragarwal): This can be done more efficiently using
+ // a circular buffer/indexing scheme, but for simplicity we will
+ // do the expensive copy for now.
+ delta_x_history_.block(0, 0, num_parameters_, max_num_corrections_ - 1) =
+ delta_x_history_
+ .block(0, 1, num_parameters_, max_num_corrections_ - 1);
+
+ delta_gradient_history_
+ .block(0, 0, num_parameters_, max_num_corrections_ - 1) =
+ delta_gradient_history_
+ .block(0, 1, num_parameters_, max_num_corrections_ - 1);
+
+ delta_x_dot_delta_gradient_.head(num_corrections_ - 1) =
+ delta_x_dot_delta_gradient_.tail(num_corrections_ - 1);
+ } else {
+ ++num_corrections_;
+ }
+
+ delta_x_history_.col(num_corrections_ - 1) = delta_x;
+ delta_gradient_history_.col(num_corrections_ - 1) = delta_gradient;
+ delta_x_dot_delta_gradient_(num_corrections_ - 1) =
+ delta_x_dot_delta_gradient;
+ approximate_eigenvalue_scale_ =
+ delta_x_dot_delta_gradient / delta_gradient.squaredNorm();
+ return true;
+}
+
+void LowRankInverseHessian::RightMultiply(const double* x_ptr,
+ double* y_ptr) const {
+ ConstVectorRef gradient(x_ptr, num_parameters_);
+ VectorRef search_direction(y_ptr, num_parameters_);
+
+ search_direction = gradient;
+
+ Vector alpha(num_corrections_);
+
+ for (int i = num_corrections_ - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
+ alpha(i) = delta_x_history_.col(i).dot(search_direction) /
+ delta_x_dot_delta_gradient_(i);
+ search_direction -= alpha(i) * delta_gradient_history_.col(i);
+ }
+
+ if (use_approximate_eigenvalue_scaling_) {
+ // Rescale the initial inverse Hessian approximation (H_0) to be iteratively
+ // updated so that it is of similar 'size' to the true inverse Hessian along
+ // the most recent search direction. As shown in [1]:
+ //
+ // \gamma_k = (delta_gradient_{k-1}' * delta_x_{k-1}) /
+ // (delta_gradient_{k-1}' * delta_gradient_{k-1})
+ //
+ // Satisfies:
+ //
+ // (1 / \lambda_m) <= \gamma_k <= (1 / \lambda_1)
+ //
+ // Where \lambda_1 & \lambda_m are the smallest and largest eigenvalues of
+ // the true Hessian (not the inverse) along the most recent search direction
+ // respectively. Thus \gamma is an approximate eigenvalue of the true
+ // inverse Hessian, and choosing: H_0 = I * \gamma will yield a starting
+ // point that has a similar scale to the true inverse Hessian. This
+ // technique is widely reported to often improve convergence, however this
+ // is not universally true, particularly if there are errors in the initial
+ // jacobians, or if there are significant differences in the sensitivity
+ // of the problem to the parameters (i.e. the range of the magnitudes of
+ // the components of the gradient is large).
+ //
+ // The original origin of this rescaling trick is somewhat unclear, the
+ // earliest reference appears to be Oren [1], however it is widely discussed
+ // without specific attributation in various texts including [2] (p143/178).
+ //
+ // [1] Oren S.S., Self-scaling variable metric (SSVM) algorithms Part II:
+ // Implementation and experiments, Management Science,
+ // 20(5), 863-874, 1974.
+ // [2] Nocedal J., Wright S., Numerical Optimization, Springer, 1999.
+ search_direction *= approximate_eigenvalue_scale_;
+ }
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < num_corrections_; ++i) {
+ const double beta = delta_gradient_history_.col(i).dot(search_direction) /
+ delta_x_dot_delta_gradient_(i);
+ search_direction += delta_x_history_.col(i) * (alpha(i) - beta);
+ }
+}
+
+} // namespace internal
+} // namespace ceres