// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer // Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012 Google Inc. 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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) // // Abstract interface for objects solving linear systems of various // kinds. #ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_LINEAR_SOLVER_H_ #define CERES_INTERNAL_LINEAR_SOLVER_H_ #include <cstddef> #include <map> #include <string> #include <vector> #include "ceres/block_sparse_matrix.h" #include "ceres/casts.h" #include "ceres/compressed_row_sparse_matrix.h" #include "ceres/dense_sparse_matrix.h" #include "ceres/execution_summary.h" #include "ceres/triplet_sparse_matrix.h" #include "ceres/types.h" #include "glog/logging.h" namespace ceres { namespace internal { enum LinearSolverTerminationType { // Termination criterion was met. LINEAR_SOLVER_SUCCESS, // Solver ran for max_num_iterations and terminated before the // termination tolerance could be satisfied. LINEAR_SOLVER_NO_CONVERGENCE, // Solver was terminated due to numerical problems, generally due to // the linear system being poorly conditioned. LINEAR_SOLVER_FAILURE, // Solver failed with a fatal error that cannot be recovered from, // e.g. CHOLMOD ran out of memory when computing the symbolic or // numeric factorization or an underlying library was called with // the wrong arguments. LINEAR_SOLVER_FATAL_ERROR }; class LinearOperator; // Abstract base class for objects that implement algorithms for // solving linear systems // // Ax = b // // It is expected that a single instance of a LinearSolver object // maybe used multiple times for solving multiple linear systems with // the same sparsity structure. This allows them to cache and reuse // information across solves. This means that calling Solve on the // same LinearSolver instance with two different linear systems will // result in undefined behaviour. // // Subclasses of LinearSolver use two structs to configure themselves. // The Options struct configures the LinearSolver object for its // lifetime. The PerSolveOptions struct is used to specify options for // a particular Solve call. class LinearSolver { public: struct Options { Options() : type(SPARSE_NORMAL_CHOLESKY), preconditioner_type(JACOBI), visibility_clustering_type(CANONICAL_VIEWS), dense_linear_algebra_library_type(EIGEN), sparse_linear_algebra_library_type(SUITE_SPARSE), use_postordering(false), dynamic_sparsity(false), min_num_iterations(1), max_num_iterations(1), num_threads(1), residual_reset_period(10), row_block_size(Eigen::Dynamic), e_block_size(Eigen::Dynamic), f_block_size(Eigen::Dynamic) { } LinearSolverType type; PreconditionerType preconditioner_type; VisibilityClusteringType visibility_clustering_type; DenseLinearAlgebraLibraryType dense_linear_algebra_library_type; SparseLinearAlgebraLibraryType sparse_linear_algebra_library_type; // See solver.h for information about this flag. bool use_postordering; bool dynamic_sparsity; // Number of internal iterations that the solver uses. This // parameter only makes sense for iterative solvers like CG. int min_num_iterations; int max_num_iterations; // If possible, how many threads can the solver use. int num_threads; // Hints about the order in which the parameter blocks should be // eliminated by the linear solver. // // For example if elimination_groups is a vector of size k, then // the linear solver is informed that it should eliminate the // parameter blocks 0 ... elimination_groups[0] - 1 first, and // then elimination_groups[0] ... elimination_groups[1] - 1 and so // on. Within each elimination group, the linear solver is free to // choose how the parameter blocks are ordered. Different linear // solvers have differing requirements on elimination_groups. // // The most common use is for Schur type solvers, where there // should be at least two elimination groups and the first // elimination group must form an independent set in the normal // equations. The first elimination group corresponds to the // num_eliminate_blocks in the Schur type solvers. vector<int> elimination_groups; // Iterative solvers, e.g. Preconditioned Conjugate Gradients // maintain a cheap estimate of the residual which may become // inaccurate over time. Thus for non-zero values of this // parameter, the solver can be told to recalculate the value of // the residual using a |b - Ax| evaluation. int residual_reset_period; // If the block sizes in a BlockSparseMatrix are fixed, then in // some cases the Schur complement based solvers can detect and // specialize on them. // // It is expected that these parameters are set programmatically // rather than manually. // // Please see schur_complement_solver.h and schur_eliminator.h for // more details. int row_block_size; int e_block_size; int f_block_size; }; // Options for the Solve method. struct PerSolveOptions { PerSolveOptions() : D(NULL), preconditioner(NULL), r_tolerance(0.0), q_tolerance(0.0) { } // This option only makes sense for unsymmetric linear solvers // that can solve rectangular linear systems. // // Given a matrix A, an optional diagonal matrix D as a vector, // and a vector b, the linear solver will solve for // // | A | x = | b | // | D | | 0 | // // If D is null, then it is treated as zero, and the solver returns // the solution to // // A x = b // // In either case, x is the vector that solves the following // optimization problem. // // arg min_x ||Ax - b||^2 + ||Dx||^2 // // Here A is a matrix of size m x n, with full column rank. If A // does not have full column rank, the results returned by the // solver cannot be relied on. D, if it is not null is an array of // size n. b is an array of size m and x is an array of size n. double * D; // This option only makes sense for iterative solvers. // // In general the performance of an iterative linear solver // depends on the condition number of the matrix A. For example // the convergence rate of the conjugate gradients algorithm // is proportional to the square root of the condition number. // // One particularly useful technique for improving the // conditioning of a linear system is to precondition it. In its // simplest form a preconditioner is a matrix M such that instead // of solving Ax = b, we solve the linear system AM^{-1} y = b // instead, where M is such that the condition number k(AM^{-1}) // is smaller than the conditioner k(A). Given the solution to // this system, x = M^{-1} y. The iterative solver takes care of // the mechanics of solving the preconditioned system and // returning the corrected solution x. The user only needs to // supply a linear operator. // // A null preconditioner is equivalent to an identity matrix being // used a preconditioner. LinearOperator* preconditioner; // The following tolerance related options only makes sense for // iterative solvers. Direct solvers ignore them. // Solver terminates when // // |Ax - b| <= r_tolerance * |b|. // // This is the most commonly used termination criterion for // iterative solvers. double r_tolerance; // For PSD matrices A, let // // Q(x) = x'Ax - 2b'x // // be the cost of the quadratic function defined by A and b. Then, // the solver terminates at iteration i if // // i * (Q(x_i) - Q(x_i-1)) / Q(x_i) < q_tolerance. // // This termination criterion is more useful when using CG to // solve the Newton step. This particular convergence test comes // from Stephen Nash's work on truncated Newton // methods. References: // // 1. Stephen G. Nash & Ariela Sofer, Assessing A Search // Direction Within A Truncated Newton Method, Operation // Research Letters 9(1990) 219-221. // // 2. Stephen G. Nash, A Survey of Truncated Newton Methods, // Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, // 124(1-2), 45-59, 2000. // double q_tolerance; }; // Summary of a call to the Solve method. We should move away from // the true/false method for determining solver success. We should // let the summary object do the talking. struct Summary { Summary() : residual_norm(0.0), num_iterations(-1), termination_type(LINEAR_SOLVER_FAILURE) { } double residual_norm; int num_iterations; LinearSolverTerminationType termination_type; string message; }; // If the optimization problem is such that there are no remaining // e-blocks, a Schur type linear solver cannot be used. If the // linear solver is of Schur type, this function implements a policy // to select an alternate nearest linear solver to the one selected // by the user. The input linear_solver_type is returned otherwise. static LinearSolverType LinearSolverForZeroEBlocks( LinearSolverType linear_solver_type); virtual ~LinearSolver(); // Solve Ax = b. virtual Summary Solve(LinearOperator* A, const double* b, const PerSolveOptions& per_solve_options, double* x) = 0; // The following two methods return copies instead of references so // that the base class implementation does not have to worry about // life time issues. Further, these calls are not expected to be // frequent or performance sensitive. virtual map<string, int> CallStatistics() const { return map<string, int>(); } virtual map<string, double> TimeStatistics() const { return map<string, double>(); } // Factory static LinearSolver* Create(const Options& options); }; // This templated subclass of LinearSolver serves as a base class for // other linear solvers that depend on the particular matrix layout of // the underlying linear operator. For example some linear solvers // need low level access to the TripletSparseMatrix implementing the // LinearOperator interface. This class hides those implementation // details behind a private virtual method, and has the Solve method // perform the necessary upcasting. template <typename MatrixType> class TypedLinearSolver : public LinearSolver { public: virtual ~TypedLinearSolver() {} virtual LinearSolver::Summary Solve( LinearOperator* A, const double* b, const LinearSolver::PerSolveOptions& per_solve_options, double* x) { ScopedExecutionTimer total_time("LinearSolver::Solve", &execution_summary_); CHECK_NOTNULL(A); CHECK_NOTNULL(b); CHECK_NOTNULL(x); return SolveImpl(down_cast<MatrixType*>(A), b, per_solve_options, x); } virtual map<string, int> CallStatistics() const { return execution_summary_.calls(); } virtual map<string, double> TimeStatistics() const { return execution_summary_.times(); } private: virtual LinearSolver::Summary SolveImpl( MatrixType* A, const double* b, const LinearSolver::PerSolveOptions& per_solve_options, double* x) = 0; ExecutionSummary execution_summary_; }; // Linear solvers that depend on acccess to the low level structure of // a SparseMatrix. typedef TypedLinearSolver<BlockSparseMatrix> BlockSparseMatrixSolver; // NOLINT typedef TypedLinearSolver<CompressedRowSparseMatrix> CompressedRowSparseMatrixSolver; // NOLINT typedef TypedLinearSolver<DenseSparseMatrix> DenseSparseMatrixSolver; // NOLINT typedef TypedLinearSolver<TripletSparseMatrix> TripletSparseMatrixSolver; // NOLINT } // namespace internal } // namespace ceres #endif // CERES_INTERNAL_LINEAR_SOLVER_H_