// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer // Copyright 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved. // http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/ // // Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without // modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: // // * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, // this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. // * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, // this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation // and/or other materials provided with the distribution. // * Neither the name of Google Inc. nor the names of its contributors may be // used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without // specific prior written permission. // // THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" // AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE // IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE // ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE // LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR // CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF // SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS // INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN // CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) // ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE // POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. // // Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal) // // Generic loop for line search based optimization algorithms. // // This is primarily inpsired by the minFunc packaged written by Mark // Schmidt. // // http://www.di.ens.fr/~mschmidt/Software/minFunc.html // // For details on the theory and implementation see "Numerical // Optimization" by Nocedal & Wright. #ifndef CERES_NO_LINE_SEARCH_MINIMIZER #include "ceres/line_search_minimizer.h" #include #include #include #include #include #include "Eigen/Dense" #include "ceres/array_utils.h" #include "ceres/evaluator.h" #include "ceres/internal/eigen.h" #include "ceres/internal/port.h" #include "ceres/internal/scoped_ptr.h" #include "ceres/line_search.h" #include "ceres/line_search_direction.h" #include "ceres/stringprintf.h" #include "ceres/types.h" #include "ceres/wall_time.h" #include "glog/logging.h" namespace ceres { namespace internal { namespace { // Small constant for various floating point issues. // TODO(sameeragarwal): Change to a better name if this has only one // use. const double kEpsilon = 1e-12; bool Evaluate(Evaluator* evaluator, const Vector& x, LineSearchMinimizer::State* state) { const bool status = evaluator->Evaluate(x.data(), &(state->cost), NULL, state->gradient.data(), NULL); if (status) { state->gradient_squared_norm = state->gradient.squaredNorm(); state->gradient_max_norm = state->gradient.lpNorm(); } return status; } } // namespace void LineSearchMinimizer::Minimize(const Minimizer::Options& options, double* parameters, Solver::Summary* summary) { double start_time = WallTimeInSeconds(); double iteration_start_time = start_time; Evaluator* evaluator = CHECK_NOTNULL(options.evaluator); const int num_parameters = evaluator->NumParameters(); const int num_effective_parameters = evaluator->NumEffectiveParameters(); summary->termination_type = NO_CONVERGENCE; summary->num_successful_steps = 0; summary->num_unsuccessful_steps = 0; VectorRef x(parameters, num_parameters); State current_state(num_parameters, num_effective_parameters); State previous_state(num_parameters, num_effective_parameters); Vector delta(num_effective_parameters); Vector x_plus_delta(num_parameters); IterationSummary iteration_summary; iteration_summary.iteration = 0; iteration_summary.step_is_valid = false; iteration_summary.step_is_successful = false; iteration_summary.cost_change = 0.0; iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm = 0.0; iteration_summary.step_norm = 0.0; iteration_summary.linear_solver_iterations = 0; iteration_summary.step_solver_time_in_seconds = 0; // Do initial cost and Jacobian evaluation. if (!Evaluate(evaluator, x, ¤t_state)) { LOG(WARNING) << "Terminating: Cost and gradient evaluation failed."; summary->termination_type = NUMERICAL_FAILURE; return; } summary->initial_cost = current_state.cost + summary->fixed_cost; iteration_summary.cost = current_state.cost + summary->fixed_cost; iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm = current_state.gradient_max_norm; // The initial gradient max_norm is bounded from below so that we do // not divide by zero. const double initial_gradient_max_norm = max(iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm, kEpsilon); const double absolute_gradient_tolerance = options.gradient_tolerance * initial_gradient_max_norm; if (iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm <= absolute_gradient_tolerance) { summary->termination_type = GRADIENT_TOLERANCE; VLOG(1) << "Terminating: Gradient tolerance reached." << "Relative gradient max norm: " << iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm / initial_gradient_max_norm << " <= " << options.gradient_tolerance; return; } iteration_summary.iteration_time_in_seconds = WallTimeInSeconds() - iteration_start_time; iteration_summary.cumulative_time_in_seconds = WallTimeInSeconds() - start_time + summary->preprocessor_time_in_seconds; summary->iterations.push_back(iteration_summary); LineSearchDirection::Options line_search_direction_options; line_search_direction_options.num_parameters = num_effective_parameters; line_search_direction_options.type = options.line_search_direction_type; line_search_direction_options.nonlinear_conjugate_gradient_type = options.nonlinear_conjugate_gradient_type; line_search_direction_options.max_lbfgs_rank = options.max_lbfgs_rank; line_search_direction_options.use_approximate_eigenvalue_bfgs_scaling = options.use_approximate_eigenvalue_bfgs_scaling; scoped_ptr line_search_direction( LineSearchDirection::Create(line_search_direction_options)); LineSearchFunction line_search_function(evaluator); LineSearch::Options line_search_options; line_search_options.interpolation_type = options.line_search_interpolation_type; line_search_options.min_step_size = options.min_line_search_step_size; line_search_options.sufficient_decrease = options.line_search_sufficient_function_decrease; line_search_options.max_step_contraction = options.max_line_search_step_contraction; line_search_options.min_step_contraction = options.min_line_search_step_contraction; line_search_options.max_num_iterations = options.max_num_line_search_step_size_iterations; line_search_options.sufficient_curvature_decrease = options.line_search_sufficient_curvature_decrease; line_search_options.max_step_expansion = options.max_line_search_step_expansion; line_search_options.function = &line_search_function; scoped_ptr line_search(LineSearch::Create(options.line_search_type, line_search_options, &summary->error)); if (line_search.get() == NULL) { LOG(ERROR) << "Ceres bug: Unable to create a LineSearch object, please " << "contact the developers!, error: " << summary->error; summary->termination_type = DID_NOT_RUN; return; } LineSearch::Summary line_search_summary; int num_line_search_direction_restarts = 0; while (true) { if (!RunCallbacks(options.callbacks, iteration_summary, summary)) { return; } iteration_start_time = WallTimeInSeconds(); if (iteration_summary.iteration >= options.max_num_iterations) { summary->termination_type = NO_CONVERGENCE; VLOG(1) << "Terminating: Maximum number of iterations reached."; break; } const double total_solver_time = iteration_start_time - start_time + summary->preprocessor_time_in_seconds; if (total_solver_time >= options.max_solver_time_in_seconds) { summary->termination_type = NO_CONVERGENCE; VLOG(1) << "Terminating: Maximum solver time reached."; break; } iteration_summary = IterationSummary(); iteration_summary.iteration = summary->iterations.back().iteration + 1; iteration_summary.step_is_valid = false; iteration_summary.step_is_successful = false; bool line_search_status = true; if (iteration_summary.iteration == 1) { current_state.search_direction = -current_state.gradient; } else { line_search_status = line_search_direction->NextDirection( previous_state, current_state, ¤t_state.search_direction); } if (!line_search_status && num_line_search_direction_restarts >= options.max_num_line_search_direction_restarts) { // Line search direction failed to generate a new direction, and we // have already reached our specified maximum number of restarts, // terminate optimization. summary->error = StringPrintf("Line search direction failure: specified " "max_num_line_search_direction_restarts: %d reached.", options.max_num_line_search_direction_restarts); LOG(WARNING) << summary->error << " terminating optimization."; summary->termination_type = NUMERICAL_FAILURE; break; } else if (!line_search_status) { // Restart line search direction with gradient descent on first iteration // as we have not yet reached our maximum number of restarts. CHECK_LT(num_line_search_direction_restarts, options.max_num_line_search_direction_restarts); ++num_line_search_direction_restarts; LOG(WARNING) << "Line search direction algorithm: " << LineSearchDirectionTypeToString(options.line_search_direction_type) << ", failed to produce a valid new direction at iteration: " << iteration_summary.iteration << ". Restarting, number of " << "restarts: " << num_line_search_direction_restarts << " / " << options.max_num_line_search_direction_restarts << " [max]."; line_search_direction.reset( LineSearchDirection::Create(line_search_direction_options)); current_state.search_direction = -current_state.gradient; } line_search_function.Init(x, current_state.search_direction); current_state.directional_derivative = current_state.gradient.dot(current_state.search_direction); // TODO(sameeragarwal): Refactor this into its own object and add // explanations for the various choices. // // Note that we use !line_search_status to ensure that we treat cases when // we restarted the line search direction equivalently to the first // iteration. const double initial_step_size = (iteration_summary.iteration == 1 || !line_search_status) ? min(1.0, 1.0 / current_state.gradient_max_norm) : min(1.0, 2.0 * (current_state.cost - previous_state.cost) / current_state.directional_derivative); // By definition, we should only ever go forwards along the specified search // direction in a line search, most likely cause for this being violated // would be a numerical failure in the line search direction calculation. if (initial_step_size < 0.0) { summary->error = StringPrintf("Numerical failure in line search, initial_step_size is " "negative: %.5e, directional_derivative: %.5e, " "(current_cost - previous_cost): %.5e", initial_step_size, current_state.directional_derivative, (current_state.cost - previous_state.cost)); LOG(WARNING) << summary->error; summary->termination_type = NUMERICAL_FAILURE; break; } line_search->Search(initial_step_size, current_state.cost, current_state.directional_derivative, &line_search_summary); current_state.step_size = line_search_summary.optimal_step_size; delta = current_state.step_size * current_state.search_direction; previous_state = current_state; iteration_summary.step_solver_time_in_seconds = WallTimeInSeconds() - iteration_start_time; // TODO(sameeragarwal): Collect stats. if (!evaluator->Plus(x.data(), delta.data(), x_plus_delta.data()) || !Evaluate(evaluator, x_plus_delta, ¤t_state)) { LOG(WARNING) << "Evaluation failed."; } else { x = x_plus_delta; } iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm = current_state.gradient_max_norm; if (iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm <= absolute_gradient_tolerance) { summary->termination_type = GRADIENT_TOLERANCE; VLOG(1) << "Terminating: Gradient tolerance reached." << "Relative gradient max norm: " << iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm / initial_gradient_max_norm << " <= " << options.gradient_tolerance; break; } iteration_summary.cost_change = previous_state.cost - current_state.cost; const double absolute_function_tolerance = options.function_tolerance * previous_state.cost; if (fabs(iteration_summary.cost_change) < absolute_function_tolerance) { VLOG(1) << "Terminating. Function tolerance reached. " << "|cost_change|/cost: " << fabs(iteration_summary.cost_change) / previous_state.cost << " <= " << options.function_tolerance; summary->termination_type = FUNCTION_TOLERANCE; return; } iteration_summary.cost = current_state.cost + summary->fixed_cost; iteration_summary.step_norm = delta.norm(); iteration_summary.step_is_valid = true; iteration_summary.step_is_successful = true; iteration_summary.step_norm = delta.norm(); iteration_summary.step_size = current_state.step_size; iteration_summary.line_search_function_evaluations = line_search_summary.num_function_evaluations; iteration_summary.line_search_gradient_evaluations = line_search_summary.num_gradient_evaluations; iteration_summary.line_search_iterations = line_search_summary.num_iterations; iteration_summary.iteration_time_in_seconds = WallTimeInSeconds() - iteration_start_time; iteration_summary.cumulative_time_in_seconds = WallTimeInSeconds() - start_time + summary->preprocessor_time_in_seconds; summary->iterations.push_back(iteration_summary); ++summary->num_successful_steps; } } } // namespace internal } // namespace ceres #endif // CERES_NO_LINE_SEARCH_MINIMIZER