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// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
#ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_COORDINATE_DESCENT_MINIMIZER_H_
#define CERES_INTERNAL_COORDINATE_DESCENT_MINIMIZER_H_
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include "ceres/evaluator.h"
#include "ceres/minimizer.h"
#include "ceres/problem_impl.h"
#include "ceres/solver.h"
namespace ceres {
namespace internal {
class Program;
// Given a Program, and a ParameterBlockOrdering which partitions
// (non-exhaustively) the Hessian matrix into independent sets,
// perform coordinate descent on the parameter blocks in the
// ordering. The independent set structure allows for all parameter
// blocks in the same independent set to be optimized in parallel, and
// the order of the independent set determines the order in which the
// parameter block groups are optimized.
//
// The minimizer assumes that none of the parameter blocks in the
// program are constant.
class CoordinateDescentMinimizer : public Minimizer {
public:
bool Init(const Program& program,
const ProblemImpl::ParameterMap& parameter_map,
const ParameterBlockOrdering& ordering,
string* error);
// Minimizer interface.
virtual ~CoordinateDescentMinimizer();
virtual void Minimize(const Minimizer::Options& options,
double* parameters,
Solver::Summary* summary);
// Verify that each group in the ordering forms an independent set.
static bool IsOrderingValid(const Program& program,
const ParameterBlockOrdering& ordering,
string* message);
// Find a recursive decomposition of the Hessian matrix as a set
// of independent sets of decreasing size and invert it. This
// seems to work better in practice, i.e., Cameras before
// points.
static ParameterBlockOrdering* CreateOrdering(const Program& program);
private:
void Solve(Program* program,
LinearSolver* linear_solver,
double* parameters,
Solver::Summary* summary);
vector<ParameterBlock*> parameter_blocks_;
vector<vector<ResidualBlock*> > residual_blocks_;
// The optimization is performed in rounds. In each round all the
// parameter blocks that form one independent set are optimized in
// parallel. This array, marks the boundaries of the independent
// sets in parameter_blocks_.
vector<int> independent_set_offsets_;
Evaluator::Options evaluator_options_;
};
} // namespace internal
} // namespace ceres
#endif // CERES_INTERNAL_COORDINATE_DESCENT_MINIMIZER_H_