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// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
//
// Solve dense rectangular systems Ax = b by forming the normal
// equations and solving them using the Cholesky factorization.
#ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_DENSE_NORMAL_CHOLESKY_SOLVER_H_
#define CERES_INTERNAL_DENSE_NORMAL_CHOLESKY_SOLVER_H_
#include "ceres/linear_solver.h"
#include "ceres/internal/macros.h"
namespace ceres {
namespace internal {
class DenseSparseMatrix;
// This class implements the LinearSolver interface for solving
// rectangular/unsymmetric (well constrained) linear systems of the
// form
//
// Ax = b
//
// Since there does not usually exist a solution that satisfies these
// equations, the solver instead solves the linear least squares
// problem
//
// min_x |Ax - b|^2
//
// Setting the gradient of the above optimization problem to zero
// gives us the normal equations
//
// A'Ax = A'b
//
// A'A is a positive definite matrix (hopefully), and the resulting
// linear system can be solved using Cholesky factorization.
//
// If the PerSolveOptions struct has a non-null array D, then the
// augmented/regularized linear system
//
// [ A ]x = [b]
// [ diag(D) ] [0]
//
// is solved.
//
// This class uses the LDLT factorization routines from the Eigen
// library. This solver always returns a solution, it is the user's
// responsibility to judge if the solution is good enough for their
// purposes.
class DenseNormalCholeskySolver: public DenseSparseMatrixSolver {
public:
explicit DenseNormalCholeskySolver(const LinearSolver::Options& options);
private:
virtual LinearSolver::Summary SolveImpl(
DenseSparseMatrix* A,
const double* b,
const LinearSolver::PerSolveOptions& per_solve_options,
double* x);
const LinearSolver::Options options_;
CERES_DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(DenseNormalCholeskySolver);
};
} // namespace internal
} // namespace ceres
#endif // CERES_INTERNAL_DENSE_NORMAL_CHOLESKY_SOLVER_H_