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-rw-r--r--ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/find_max_global.h511
-rw-r--r--ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/find_max_global_abstract.h496
-rw-r--r--ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search.cpp942
-rw-r--r--ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search.h245
-rw-r--r--ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search_abstract.h605
-rw-r--r--ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/upper_bound_function.h286
-rw-r--r--ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/upper_bound_function_abstract.h212
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diff --git a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/find_max_global.h b/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/find_max_global.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 5356129f5..000000000
--- a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/find_max_global.h
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@@ -1,511 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (C) 2017 Davis E. King (davis@dlib.net)
-// License: Boost Software License See LICENSE.txt for the full license.
-#ifndef DLIB_FiND_GLOBAL_MAXIMUM_hH_
-#define DLIB_FiND_GLOBAL_MAXIMUM_hH_
-
-#include "find_max_global_abstract.h"
-#include "global_function_search.h"
-#include "../metaprogramming.h"
-#include <utility>
-#include <chrono>
-
-namespace dlib
-{
- namespace gopt_impl
- {
-
- // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- class disable_decay_to_scalar
- {
- const matrix<double,0,1>& a;
- public:
- disable_decay_to_scalar(const matrix<double,0,1>& a) : a(a){}
- operator const matrix<double,0,1>&() const { return a;}
- };
-
-
- template <typename T, size_t... indices>
- auto _cwv (
- T&& f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& a,
- compile_time_integer_list<indices...>
- ) -> decltype(f(a(indices-1)...))
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(a.size() == sizeof...(indices),
- "You invoked dlib::call_function_and_expand_args(f,a) but the number of arguments expected by f() doesn't match the size of 'a'. "
- << "Expected " << sizeof...(indices) << " arguments but got " << a.size() << "."
- );
- return f(a(indices-1)...);
- }
-
- // Visual studio, as of November 2017, doesn't support C++11 and can't compile this code.
- // So we write the terrible garbage in the #else for visual studio. When Visual Studio supports C++11 I'll update this #ifdef to use the C++11 code.
-#ifndef _MSC_VER
- template <size_t max_unpack>
- struct call_function_and_expand_args
- {
- template <typename T>
- static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double,0,1>& a) -> decltype(_cwv(std::forward<T>(f),a,typename make_compile_time_integer_range<max_unpack>::type()))
- {
- return _cwv(std::forward<T>(f),a,typename make_compile_time_integer_range<max_unpack>::type());
- }
-
- template <typename T>
- static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double,0,1>& a) -> decltype(call_function_and_expand_args<max_unpack-1>::template go(std::forward<T>(f),a))
- {
- return call_function_and_expand_args<max_unpack-1>::go(std::forward<T>(f),a);
- }
- };
-
- template <>
- struct call_function_and_expand_args<0>
- {
- template <typename T>
- static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double,0,1>& a) -> decltype(f(disable_decay_to_scalar(a)))
- {
- return f(disable_decay_to_scalar(a));
- }
- };
-#else
- template <size_t max_unpack>
- struct call_function_and_expand_args
- {
-template <typename T> static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double, 0, 1>& a) -> decltype(f(disable_decay_to_scalar(a))) {return f(disable_decay_to_scalar(a)); }
-template <typename T> static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double, 0, 1>& a) -> decltype(f(a(0))) { DLIB_CASSERT(a.size() == 1); return f(a(0)); }
-template <typename T> static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double, 0, 1>& a) -> decltype(f(a(0),a(1))) { DLIB_CASSERT(a.size() == 2); return f(a(0),a(1)); }
-template <typename T> static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double, 0, 1>& a) -> decltype(f(a(0), a(1), a(2))) { DLIB_CASSERT(a.size() == 3); return f(a(0), a(1),a(2)); }
-template <typename T> static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double, 0, 1>& a) -> decltype(f(a(0), a(1), a(2), a(3))) { DLIB_CASSERT(a.size() == 4); return f(a(0), a(1), a(2), a(3)); }
-template <typename T> static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double, 0, 1>& a) -> decltype(f(a(0), a(1), a(2), a(3), a(4))) { DLIB_CASSERT(a.size() == 5); return f(a(0), a(1), a(2), a(3), a(4)); }
-template <typename T> static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double, 0, 1>& a) -> decltype(f(a(0), a(1), a(2), a(3), a(4), a(5))) { DLIB_CASSERT(a.size() == 6); return f(a(0), a(1), a(2), a(3), a(4), a(5)); }
-template <typename T> static auto go(T&& f, const matrix<double, 0, 1>& a) -> decltype(f(a(0), a(1), a(2), a(3), a(4), a(5), a(6))) { DLIB_CASSERT(a.size() == 7); return f(a(0), a(1), a(2), a(3), a(4), a(5), a(6)); }
- };
-#endif
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <typename T>
- auto call_function_and_expand_args(
- T&& f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& a
- ) -> decltype(gopt_impl::call_function_and_expand_args<40>::go(f,a))
- {
- // unpack up to 40 parameters when calling f()
- return gopt_impl::call_function_and_expand_args<40>::go(std::forward<T>(f),a);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- struct max_function_calls
- {
- max_function_calls() = default;
- explicit max_function_calls(size_t max_calls) : max_calls(max_calls) {}
- size_t max_calls = std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max();
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- const auto FOREVER = std::chrono::hours(24*356*290); // 290 years
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- namespace impl
- {
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- std::pair<size_t,function_evaluation> find_max_global (
- std::vector<funct>& functions,
- std::vector<function_spec> specs,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon,
- double ymult
- )
- {
- // Decide which parameters should be searched on a log scale. Basically, it's
- // common for machine learning models to have parameters that should be searched on
- // a log scale (e.g. SVM C). These parameters are usually identifiable because
- // they have bounds like [1e-5 1e10], that is, they span a very large range of
- // magnitudes from really small to really big. So there we are going to check for
- // that and if we find parameters with that kind of bound constraints we will
- // transform them to a log scale automatically.
- std::vector<std::vector<bool>> log_scale(specs.size());
- for (size_t i = 0; i < specs.size(); ++i)
- {
- for (long j = 0; j < specs[i].lower.size(); ++j)
- {
- if (!specs[i].is_integer_variable[j] && specs[i].lower(j) > 0 && specs[i].upper(j)/specs[i].lower(j) >= 1000)
- {
- log_scale[i].push_back(true);
- specs[i].lower(j) = std::log(specs[i].lower(j));
- specs[i].upper(j) = std::log(specs[i].upper(j));
- }
- else
- {
- log_scale[i].push_back(false);
- }
- }
- }
-
- global_function_search opt(specs);
- opt.set_solver_epsilon(solver_epsilon);
-
- const auto time_to_stop = std::chrono::steady_clock::now() + max_runtime;
-
- // Now run the main solver loop.
- for (size_t i = 0; i < num.max_calls && std::chrono::steady_clock::now() < time_to_stop; ++i)
- {
- auto next = opt.get_next_x();
- matrix<double,0,1> x = next.x();
- // Undo any log-scaling that was applied to the variables before we pass them
- // to the functions being optimized.
- for (long j = 0; j < x.size(); ++j)
- {
- if (log_scale[next.function_idx()][j])
- x(j) = std::exp(x(j));
- }
- double y = ymult*call_function_and_expand_args(functions[next.function_idx()], x);
- next.set(y);
- }
-
-
- matrix<double,0,1> x;
- double y;
- size_t function_idx;
- opt.get_best_function_eval(x,y,function_idx);
- // Undo any log-scaling that was applied to the variables before we output them.
- for (long j = 0; j < x.size(); ++j)
- {
- if (log_scale[function_idx][j])
- x(j) = std::exp(x(j));
- }
- return std::make_pair(function_idx, function_evaluation(x,y/ymult));
- }
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- std::pair<size_t,function_evaluation> find_max_global (
- std::vector<funct>& functions,
- std::vector<function_spec> specs,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return impl::find_max_global(functions, std::move(specs), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon, +1);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- std::pair<size_t,function_evaluation> find_min_global (
- std::vector<funct>& functions,
- std::vector<function_spec> specs,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return impl::find_max_global(functions, std::move(specs), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon, -1);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- std::vector<funct> functions(1,std::move(f));
- std::vector<function_spec> specs(1, function_spec(bound1, bound2, is_integer_variable));
- return find_max_global(functions, std::move(specs), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon).second;
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- std::vector<funct> functions(1,std::move(f));
- std::vector<function_spec> specs(1, function_spec(bound1, bound2, is_integer_variable));
- return find_min_global(functions, std::move(specs), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon).second;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, is_integer_variable, num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, is_integer_variable, num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, std::vector<bool>(bound1.size(),false), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, std::vector<bool>(bound1.size(),false), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, std::vector<bool>(bound1.size(),false), num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, std::vector<bool>(bound1.size(),false), num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), matrix<double,0,1>({bound1}), matrix<double,0,1>({bound2}), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), matrix<double,0,1>({bound1}), matrix<double,0,1>({bound2}), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), matrix<double,0,1>({bound1}), matrix<double,0,1>({bound2}), num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), matrix<double,0,1>({bound1}), matrix<double,0,1>({bound2}), num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, is_integer_variable, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, is_integer_variable, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-}
-
-#endif // DLIB_FiND_GLOBAL_MAXIMUM_hH_
-
diff --git a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/find_max_global_abstract.h b/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/find_max_global_abstract.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 4be62b154..000000000
--- a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/find_max_global_abstract.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,496 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (C) 2017 Davis E. King (davis@dlib.net)
-// License: Boost Software License See LICENSE.txt for the full license.
-#undef DLIB_FiND_GLOBAL_MAXIMUM_ABSTRACT_hH_
-#ifdef DLIB_FiND_GLOBAL_MAXIMUM_ABSTRACT_hH_
-
-#include "upper_bound_function_abstract.h"
-#include "global_function_search_abstract.h"
-#include "../metaprogramming.h"
-#include "../matrix.h"
-#include <utility>
-#include <chrono>
-
-namespace dlib
-{
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename T
- >
- auto call_function_and_expand_args(
- T&& f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& args
- ) -> decltype(f(args or args expanded out as discussed below));
- /*!
- requires
- - f is a function object with one of the following signatures:
- auto f(matrix<double,0,1>)
- auto f(double)
- auto f(double,double)
- auto f(double,double,double)
- ...
- auto f(double,double,...,double) // up to 40 double arguments
- - if (f() explicitly expands its arguments) then
- - args.size() == the number of arguments taken by f.
- ensures
- - This function invokes f() with the given arguments and returns the result.
- However, the signature of f() is allowed to vary. In particular, if f()
- takes a matrix<double,0,1> as a single argument then this function simply
- calls f(args). However, if f() takes double arguments then args is expanded
- appropriately, i.e. it calls one of the following as appropriate:
- f(args(0))
- f(args(0),args(1))
- ...
- f(args(0),args(1),...,args(N))
- and the result of f() is returned.
- !*/
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- struct max_function_calls
- {
- /*!
- WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS
- This is a simple typed integer class used to strongly type the "max number
- of function calls" argument to find_max_global() and find_min_global().
-
- !*/
-
- max_function_calls() = default;
-
- explicit max_function_calls(size_t max_calls) : max_calls(max_calls) {}
-
- size_t max_calls = std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max();
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- const auto FOREVER = std::chrono::hours(24*356*290); // 290 years, basically forever
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- std::pair<size_t,function_evaluation> find_max_global (
- std::vector<funct>& functions,
- const std::vector<function_spec>& specs,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - functions.size() != 0
- - functions.size() == specs.size()
- - solver_epsilon >= 0
- - for all valid i:
- - functions[i] is a real valued multi-variate function object. Moreover,
- it must be callable via an expression of the form:
- call_function_and_expand_args(functions[i], specs.lower). This means
- function[i] should have a signature like one of the following:
- double f(matrix<double,0,1>)
- double f(double)
- double f(double,double)
- etc.
- - The range of inputs defined by specs[i] must be valid inputs to
- functions[i].
- ensures
- - This function performs global optimization on the set of given functions.
- The goal is to maximize the following objective function:
- max_{i,x_i}: functions[i](x_i)
- subject to the constraints on x_i defined by specs[i].
- Once found, the return value of find_max_global() is:
- make_pair(i, function_evaluation(x_i,functions[i](x_i))).
- That is, we search for the settings of i and x that return the largest output
- and return those settings.
- - The search is performed using the global_function_search object. See its
- documentation for details of the algorithm.
- - We set the global_function_search::get_solver_epsilon() parameter to
- solver_epsilon. Therefore, the search will only attempt to find a global
- maximizer to at most solver_epsilon accuracy. Once a local maximizer is
- found to that accuracy the search will focus entirely on finding other maxima
- elsewhere rather than on further improving the current local optima found so
- far. That is, once a local maxima is identified to about solver_epsilon
- accuracy, the algorithm will spend all its time exploring the functions to
- find other local maxima to investigate. An epsilon of 0 means it will keep
- solving until it reaches full floating point precision. Larger values will
- cause it to switch to pure global exploration sooner and therefore might be
- more effective if your objective function has many local maxima and you don't
- care about a super high precision solution.
- - find_max_global() runs until one of the following is true:
- - The total number of calls to the provided functions is == num.max_calls
- - More than max_runtime time has elapsed since the start of this function.
- - Any variables that satisfy the following conditions are optimized on a log-scale:
- - The lower bound on the variable is > 0
- - The ratio of the upper bound to lower bound is >= 1000
- - The variable is not an integer variable
- We do this because it's common to optimize machine learning models that have
- parameters with bounds in a range such as [1e-5 to 1e10] (e.g. the SVM C
- parameter) and it's much more appropriate to optimize these kinds of
- variables on a log scale. So we transform them by applying std::log() to
- them and then undo the transform via std::exp() before invoking the function
- being optimized. Therefore, this transformation is invisible to the user
- supplied functions. In most cases, it improves the efficiency of the
- optimizer.
- !*/
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- std::pair<size_t,function_evaluation> find_min_global (
- std::vector<funct>& functions,
- const std::vector<function_spec>& specs,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- );
- /*!
- This function is identical to the find_max_global() defined immediately above,
- except that we perform minimization rather than maximization.
- !*/
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - bound1.size() == bound2.size() == is_integer_variable.size()
- - for all valid i: bound1(i) != bound2(i)
- - solver_epsilon >= 0
- - f() is a real valued multi-variate function object. Moreover, it must be
- callable via an expression of the form: call_function_and_expand_args(f,
- bound1). This means f() should have a signature like one of the following:
- double f(matrix<double,0,1>)
- double f(double)
- double f(double,double)
- etc.
- - The range of inputs defined by function_spec(bound1,bound2,is_integer_variable)
- must be valid inputs to f().
- ensures
- - This function performs global optimization on the given f() function.
- The goal is to maximize the following objective function:
- f(x)
- subject to the constraints on x defined by function_spec(bound1,bound2,is_integer_variable).
- Once found, the return value of find_max_global() is:
- function_evaluation(x,f(x))).
- That is, we search for the setting of x that returns the largest output and
- return that setting.
- - The search is performed using the global_function_search object. See its
- documentation for details of the algorithm.
- - We set the global_function_search::get_solver_epsilon() parameter to
- solver_epsilon. Therefore, the search will only attempt to find a global
- maximizer to at most solver_epsilon accuracy. Once a local maximizer is
- found to that accuracy the search will focus entirely on finding other maxima
- elsewhere rather than on further improving the current local optima found so
- far. That is, once a local maxima is identified to about solver_epsilon
- accuracy, the algorithm will spend all its time exploring the function to
- find other local maxima to investigate. An epsilon of 0 means it will keep
- solving until it reaches full floating point precision. Larger values will
- cause it to switch to pure global exploration sooner and therefore might be
- more effective if your objective function has many local maxima and you don't
- care about a super high precision solution.
- - find_max_global() runs until one of the following is true:
- - The total number of calls to f() is == num.max_calls
- - More than max_runtime time has elapsed since the start of this function.
- - Any variables that satisfy the following conditions are optimized on a log-scale:
- - The lower bound on the variable is > 0
- - The ratio of the upper bound to lower bound is >= 1000
- - The variable is not an integer variable
- We do this because it's common to optimize machine learning models that have
- parameters with bounds in a range such as [1e-5 to 1e10] (e.g. the SVM C
- parameter) and it's much more appropriate to optimize these kinds of
- variables on a log scale. So we transform them by applying std::log() to
- them and then undo the transform via std::exp() before invoking the function
- being optimized. Therefore, this transformation is invisible to the user
- supplied functions. In most cases, it improves the efficiency of the
- optimizer.
- !*/
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- );
- /*!
- This function is identical to the find_max_global() defined immediately above,
- except that we perform minimization rather than maximization.
- !*/
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// The following functions are just convenient overloads for calling the above defined
-// find_max_global() and find_min_global() routines.
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, std::vector<bool>(bound1.size(),false), num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, std::vector<bool>(bound1.size(),false), num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, std::vector<bool>(bound1.size(),false), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, std::vector<bool>(bound1.size(),false), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, std::vector<bool>(bound1.size(),false), num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, std::vector<bool>(bound1.size(),false), num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), matrix<double,0,1>({bound1}), matrix<double,0,1>({bound2}), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime = FOREVER,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), matrix<double,0,1>({bound1}), matrix<double,0,1>({bound2}), num, max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), matrix<double,0,1>({bound1}), matrix<double,0,1>({bound2}), num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const max_function_calls num,
- double solver_epsilon
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), matrix<double,0,1>({bound1}), matrix<double,0,1>({bound2}), num, FOREVER, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const double bound1,
- const double bound2,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_max_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_max_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, is_integer_variable, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
- template <
- typename funct
- >
- function_evaluation find_min_global (
- funct f,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound1,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& bound2,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const std::chrono::nanoseconds max_runtime,
- double solver_epsilon = 0
- )
- {
- return find_min_global(std::move(f), bound1, bound2, is_integer_variable, max_function_calls(), max_runtime, solver_epsilon);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-}
-
-#endif // DLIB_FiND_GLOBAL_MAXIMUM_ABSTRACT_hH_
-
-
diff --git a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search.cpp b/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index fada289a4..000000000
--- a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,942 +0,0 @@
-
-#include "global_function_search.h"
-#include "upper_bound_function.h"
-#include "../optimization.h"
-
-
-namespace dlib
-{
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- namespace qopt_impl
- {
- void fit_quadratic_to_points_mse(
- const matrix<double>& X,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& Y,
- matrix<double>& H,
- matrix<double,0,1>& g,
- double& c
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(X.size() > 0);
- DLIB_CASSERT(X.nc() == Y.size());
- DLIB_CASSERT(X.nc() >= (X.nr()+1)*(X.nr()+2)/2);
-
- const long dims = X.nr();
- const long M = X.nc();
-
- matrix<double> W((X.nr()+1)*(X.nr()+2)/2, M);
-
- set_subm(W, 0,0, dims, M) = X;
- set_subm(W, dims,0, 1, M) = 1;
- for (long c = 0; c < X.nc(); ++c)
- {
- long wr = dims+1;
- for (long r = 0; r < X.nr(); ++r)
- {
- for (long r2 = r; r2 < X.nr(); ++r2)
- {
- W(wr,c) = X(r,c)*X(r2,c);
- if (r2 == r)
- W(wr,c) *= 0.5;
- ++wr;
- }
- }
- }
-
- matrix<double,0,1> z = pinv(trans(W))*Y;
-
- c = z(dims);
- g = rowm(z, range(0,dims-1));
-
- H.set_size(dims,dims);
-
- long wr = dims+1;
- for (long r = 0; r < X.nr(); ++r)
- {
- for (long r2 = r; r2 < X.nr(); ++r2)
- {
- H(r,r2) = H(r2,r) = z(wr++);
- }
- }
- }
-
- // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- void fit_quadratic_to_points(
- const matrix<double>& X,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& Y,
- matrix<double>& H,
- matrix<double,0,1>& g,
- double& c
- )
- /*!
- requires
- - X.size() > 0
- - X.nc() == Y.size()
- - X.nr()+1 <= X.nc()
- ensures
- - This function finds a quadratic function, Q(x), that interpolates the
- given set of points. If there aren't enough points to uniquely define
- Q(x) then the Q(x) that fits the given points with the minimum Frobenius
- norm hessian matrix is selected.
- - To be precise:
- - Let: Q(x) == 0.5*trans(x)*H*x + trans(x)*g + c
- - Then this function finds H, g, and c that minimizes the following:
- sum(squared(H))
- such that:
- Q(colm(X,i)) == Y(i), for all valid i
- - If there are more points than necessary to constrain Q then the Q
- that best interpolates the function in the mean squared sense is
- found.
- !*/
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(X.size() > 0);
- DLIB_CASSERT(X.nc() == Y.size());
- DLIB_CASSERT(X.nr()+1 <= X.nc());
-
-
- if (X.nc() >= (X.nr()+1)*(X.nr()+2)/2)
- {
- fit_quadratic_to_points_mse(X,Y,H,g,c);
- return;
- }
-
-
- const long dims = X.nr();
- const long M = X.nc();
-
- /*
- Our implementation uses the equations 3.9 - 3.12 from the paper:
- The NEWUOA software for unconstrained optimization without derivatives
- By M.J.D. Powell, 40th Workshop on Large Scale Nonlinear Optimization (Erice, Italy, 2004)
- */
-
- matrix<double> W(M + dims + 1, M + dims + 1);
-
- set_subm(W, 0, 0, M, M) = 0.5*squared(tmp(trans(X)*X));
- set_subm(W, 0, M, M, 1) = 1;
- set_subm(W, M, 0, 1, M) = 1;
- set_subm(W, M, M, dims+1, dims+1) = 0;
- set_subm(W, 0, M+1, X.nc(), X.nr()) = trans(X);
- set_subm(W, M+1, 0, X.nr(), X.nc()) = X;
-
-
- const matrix<double,0,1> r = join_cols(Y, zeros_matrix<double>(dims+1,1));
-
- //matrix<double,0,1> z = pinv(W)*r;
- lu_decomposition<decltype(W)> lu(W);
- matrix<double,0,1> z = lu.solve(r);
- //if (lu.is_singular()) std::cout << "WARNING, THE W MATRIX IS SINGULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" << std::endl;
-
- matrix<double,0,1> lambda = rowm(z, range(0,M-1));
-
- c = z(M);
- g = rowm(z, range(M+1,z.size()-1));
- H = X*diagm(lambda)*trans(X);
- }
-
- // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- struct quad_interp_result
- {
- quad_interp_result() = default;
-
- template <typename EXP>
- quad_interp_result(
- const matrix_exp<EXP>& best_x,
- double predicted_improvement
- ) : best_x(best_x), predicted_improvement(predicted_improvement) {}
-
- matrix<double,0,1> best_x;
- double predicted_improvement = std::numeric_limits<double>::quiet_NaN();
- };
-
- // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- quad_interp_result find_max_quadraticly_interpolated_vector (
- const matrix<double,0,1>& anchor,
- const double radius,
- const std::vector<matrix<double,0,1>>& x,
- const std::vector<double>& y,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& lower,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& upper
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(x.size() == y.size());
- DLIB_CASSERT(x.size() > 0);
- for (size_t i = 0; i < x.size(); ++i)
- DLIB_CASSERT(anchor.size() == x[i].size());
-
- const long x_size = static_cast<long>(x.size());
- DLIB_CASSERT(anchor.size()+1 <= x_size && x_size <= (anchor.size()+1)*(anchor.size()+2)/2);
-
-
- matrix<double> X(anchor.size(), x.size());
- matrix<double,0,1> Y(x.size());
- for (size_t i = 0; i < x.size(); ++i)
- {
- set_colm(X,i) = x[i] - anchor;
- Y(i) = y[i];
- }
-
- matrix<double> H;
- matrix<double,0,1> g;
- double c;
-
- fit_quadratic_to_points(X, Y, H, g, c);
-
- matrix<double,0,1> p;
-
- solve_trust_region_subproblem_bounded(-H,-g, radius, p, 0.001, 500, lower-anchor, upper-anchor);
-
- // ensure we never move more than radius from the anchor. This might happen if the
- // trust region subproblem isn't solved accurately enough.
- if (length(p) >= radius)
- p *= radius/length(p);
-
-
- double predicted_improvement = 0.5*trans(p)*H*p + trans(p)*g;
- return quad_interp_result{clamp(anchor+p,lower,upper), predicted_improvement};
- }
-
- // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- quad_interp_result pick_next_sample_using_trust_region (
- const std::vector<function_evaluation>& samples,
- double& radius,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& lower,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& upper,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(samples.size() > 0);
- // We don't use the QP to optimize integer variables. Instead, we just fix them at
- // their best observed value and use the QP to optimize the real variables. So the
- // number of dimensions, as far as the QP is concerned, is the number of non-integer
- // variables.
- size_t dims = 0;
- for (auto is_int : is_integer_variable)
- {
- if (!is_int)
- ++dims;
- }
-
- DLIB_CASSERT(samples.size() >= dims+1);
-
- // Use enough points to fill out a quadratic model or the max available if we don't
- // have quite enough.
- const long N = std::min(samples.size(), (dims+1)*(dims+2)/2);
-
-
- // first find the best sample;
- double best_val = -1e300;
- matrix<double,0,1> best_x;
- for (auto& v : samples)
- {
- if (v.y > best_val)
- {
- best_val = v.y;
- best_x = v.x;
- }
- }
-
- // if there are only integer variables then there isn't really anything to do. So just
- // return the best_x and say there is no improvement.
- if (dims == 0)
- return quad_interp_result(best_x, 0);
-
- matrix<long,0,1> active_dims(dims);
- long j = 0;
- for (size_t i = 0; i < is_integer_variable.size(); ++i)
- {
- if (!is_integer_variable[i])
- active_dims(j++) = i;
- }
-
- // now find the N-1 nearest neighbors of best_x
- std::vector<std::pair<double,size_t>> distances;
- for (size_t i = 0; i < samples.size(); ++i)
- distances.emplace_back(length(best_x-samples[i].x), i);
- std::sort(distances.begin(), distances.end());
- distances.resize(N);
-
- std::vector<matrix<double,0,1>> x;
- std::vector<double> y;
- for (auto& idx : distances)
- {
- x.emplace_back(rowm(samples[idx.second].x, active_dims));
- y.emplace_back(samples[idx.second].y);
- }
-
- if (radius == 0)
- {
- for (auto& idx : distances)
- radius = std::max(radius, length(rowm(best_x-samples[idx.second].x, active_dims)) );
- // Shrink the radius a little so we are always going to be making the sampling of
- // points near the best current point smaller.
- radius *= 0.95;
- }
-
-
- auto tmp = find_max_quadraticly_interpolated_vector(rowm(best_x,active_dims), radius, x, y, rowm(lower,active_dims), rowm(upper,active_dims));
-
- // stick the integer variables back into the solution
- for (long i = 0; i < active_dims.size(); ++i)
- best_x(active_dims(i)) = tmp.best_x(i);
-
- tmp.best_x = best_x;
- return tmp;
- }
-
- // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- matrix<double,0,1> make_random_vector(
- dlib::rand& rnd,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& lower,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& upper,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable
- )
- {
- matrix<double,0,1> temp(lower.size());
- for (long i = 0; i < temp.size(); ++i)
- {
- temp(i) = rnd.get_double_in_range(lower(i), upper(i));
- if (is_integer_variable[i])
- temp(i) = std::round(temp(i));
- }
- return temp;
- }
-
- // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- struct max_upper_bound_function
- {
- max_upper_bound_function() = default;
-
- template <typename EXP>
- max_upper_bound_function(
- const matrix_exp<EXP>& x,
- double predicted_improvement,
- double upper_bound
- ) : x(x), predicted_improvement(predicted_improvement), upper_bound(upper_bound) {}
-
- matrix<double,0,1> x;
- double predicted_improvement = 0;
- double upper_bound = 0;
- };
-
- // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- max_upper_bound_function pick_next_sample_as_max_upper_bound (
- dlib::rand& rnd,
- const upper_bound_function& ub,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& lower,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& upper,
- const std::vector<bool>& is_integer_variable,
- const size_t num_random_samples
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(ub.num_points() > 0);
-
-
-
- // now do a simple random search to find the maximum upper bound
- double best_ub_so_far = -std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity();
- matrix<double,0,1> vtemp(lower.size()), v;
- for (size_t rounds = 0; rounds < num_random_samples; ++rounds)
- {
- vtemp = make_random_vector(rnd, lower, upper, is_integer_variable);
-
- double bound = ub(vtemp);
- if (bound > best_ub_so_far)
- {
- best_ub_so_far = bound;
- v = vtemp;
- }
- }
-
- double max_value = -std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity();
- for (auto& v : ub.get_points())
- max_value = std::max(max_value, v.y);
-
- return max_upper_bound_function(v, best_ub_so_far - max_value, best_ub_so_far);
- }
-
- } // end of namespace qopt_impl;
-
- using namespace qopt_impl;
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- function_spec::function_spec(
- matrix<double,0,1> bound1,
- matrix<double,0,1> bound2
- ) :
- lower(std::move(bound1)), upper(std::move(bound2))
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(lower.size() == upper.size());
- for (long i = 0; i < lower.size(); ++i)
- {
- if (upper(i) < lower(i))
- std::swap(lower(i), upper(i));
- DLIB_CASSERT(upper(i) != lower(i), "The upper and lower bounds can't be equal.");
- }
- is_integer_variable.assign(lower.size(), false);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- function_spec::function_spec(
- matrix<double,0,1> bound1,
- matrix<double,0,1> bound2,
- std::vector<bool> is_integer
- ) :
- function_spec(std::move(bound1),std::move(bound2))
- {
- is_integer_variable = std::move(is_integer);
- DLIB_CASSERT(lower.size() == (long)is_integer_variable.size());
-
-
- // Make sure any integer variables have integer bounds.
- for (size_t i = 0; i < is_integer_variable.size(); ++i)
- {
- if (is_integer_variable[i])
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(std::round(lower(i)) == lower(i), "If you say a variable is an integer variable then it must have an integer lower bound. \n"
- << "lower[i] = " << lower(i));
- DLIB_CASSERT(std::round(upper(i)) == upper(i), "If you say a variable is an integer variable then it must have an integer upper bound. \n"
- << "upper[i] = " << upper(i));
- }
- }
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- namespace gopt_impl
- {
- upper_bound_function funct_info::build_upper_bound_with_all_function_evals (
- ) const
- {
- upper_bound_function tmp(ub);
-
- // we are going to add the outstanding evals into this and assume the
- // outstanding evals are going to take y values equal to their nearest
- // neighbor complete evals.
- for (auto& eval : outstanding_evals)
- {
- function_evaluation e;
- e.x = eval.x;
- e.y = find_nn(ub.get_points(), eval.x);
- tmp.add(e);
- }
-
- return tmp;
- }
-
- // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- double funct_info::find_nn (
- const std::vector<function_evaluation>& evals,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& x
- )
- {
- double best_y = 0;
- double best_dist = std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity();
- for (auto& v : evals)
- {
- double dist = length_squared(v.x-x);
- if (dist < best_dist)
- {
- best_dist = dist;
- best_y = v.y;
- }
- }
- return best_y;
- }
-
- } // end namespace gopt_impl
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- function_evaluation_request::function_evaluation_request(
- function_evaluation_request&& item
- )
- {
- m_has_been_evaluated = item.m_has_been_evaluated;
- req = item.req;
- info = item.info;
- item.info.reset();
-
- item.m_has_been_evaluated = true;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- function_evaluation_request& function_evaluation_request::
- operator=(
- function_evaluation_request&& item
- )
- {
- function_evaluation_request(std::move(item)).swap(*this);
- return *this;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- void function_evaluation_request::
- swap(
- function_evaluation_request& item
- )
- {
- std::swap(m_has_been_evaluated, item.m_has_been_evaluated);
- std::swap(req, item.req);
- std::swap(info, item.info);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- size_t function_evaluation_request::
- function_idx (
- ) const
- {
- return info->function_idx;
- }
-
- const matrix<double,0,1>& function_evaluation_request::
- x (
- ) const
- {
- return req.x;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- bool function_evaluation_request::
- has_been_evaluated (
- ) const
- {
- return m_has_been_evaluated;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- function_evaluation_request::
- ~function_evaluation_request()
- {
- if (!m_has_been_evaluated)
- {
- std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(*info->m);
-
- // remove the evaluation request from the outstanding list.
- auto i = std::find(info->outstanding_evals.begin(), info->outstanding_evals.end(), req);
- info->outstanding_evals.erase(i);
- }
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- void function_evaluation_request::
- set (
- double y
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(has_been_evaluated() == false);
- std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(*info->m);
-
- m_has_been_evaluated = true;
-
-
- // move the evaluation from outstanding to complete
- auto i = std::find(info->outstanding_evals.begin(), info->outstanding_evals.end(), req);
- DLIB_CASSERT(i != info->outstanding_evals.end());
- info->outstanding_evals.erase(i);
- info->ub.add(function_evaluation(req.x,y));
-
-
- // Now do trust region radius maintenance and keep track of the best objective
- // values and all that.
- if (req.was_trust_region_generated_request)
- {
- // Adjust trust region radius based on how good this evaluation
- // was.
- double measured_improvement = y-req.anchor_objective_value;
- double rho = measured_improvement/std::abs(req.predicted_improvement);
- //std::cout << "rho: "<< rho << std::endl;
- //std::cout << "radius: "<< info->radius << std::endl;
- if (rho < 0.25)
- info->radius *= 0.5;
- else if (rho > 0.75)
- info->radius *= 2;
- }
-
- if (y > info->best_objective_value)
- {
- if (!req.was_trust_region_generated_request && length(req.x - info->best_x) > info->radius*1.001)
- {
- //std::cout << "reset radius because of big move, " << length(req.x - info->best_x) << " radius was " << info->radius << std::endl;
- // reset trust region radius since we made a big move. Doing this will
- // cause the radius to be reset to the size of the local region.
- info->radius = 0;
- }
- info->best_objective_value = y;
- info->best_x = std::move(req.x);
- }
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- global_function_search::
- global_function_search(
- const function_spec& function
- ) : global_function_search(std::vector<function_spec>(1,function)) {}
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- global_function_search::
- global_function_search(
- const std::vector<function_spec>& functions_
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(functions_.size() > 0);
- m = std::make_shared<std::mutex>();
- functions.reserve(functions_.size());
- for (size_t i = 0; i < functions_.size(); ++i)
- functions.emplace_back(std::make_shared<gopt_impl::funct_info>(functions_[i],i,m));
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- global_function_search::
- global_function_search(
- const std::vector<function_spec>& functions_,
- const std::vector<std::vector<function_evaluation>>& initial_function_evals,
- const double relative_noise_magnitude_
- ) :
- global_function_search(functions_)
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(functions_.size() > 0);
- DLIB_CASSERT(functions_.size() == initial_function_evals.size());
- DLIB_CASSERT(relative_noise_magnitude >= 0);
- relative_noise_magnitude = relative_noise_magnitude_;
- for (size_t i = 0; i < initial_function_evals.size(); ++i)
- {
- functions[i]->ub = upper_bound_function(initial_function_evals[i], relative_noise_magnitude);
- }
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- size_t global_function_search::
- num_functions(
- ) const
- {
- return functions.size();
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- void global_function_search::
- set_seed (
- time_t seed
- )
- {
- rnd = dlib::rand(seed);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- void global_function_search::
- get_function_evaluations (
- std::vector<function_spec>& specs,
- std::vector<std::vector<function_evaluation>>& function_evals
- ) const
- {
- std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(*m);
- specs.clear();
- function_evals.clear();
- for (size_t i = 0; i < functions.size(); ++i)
- {
- specs.emplace_back(functions[i]->spec);
- function_evals.emplace_back(functions[i]->ub.get_points());
- }
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- void global_function_search::
- get_best_function_eval (
- matrix<double,0,1>& x,
- double& y,
- size_t& function_idx
- ) const
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(num_functions() != 0);
-
- std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(*m);
-
- // find the largest value
- auto& info = *best_function(function_idx);
- y = info.best_objective_value;
- x = info.best_x;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- function_evaluation_request global_function_search::
- get_next_x (
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(num_functions() != 0);
-
- using namespace gopt_impl;
-
- std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(*m);
-
-
- // the first thing we do is make sure each function has at least max(3,dimensionality of function) evaluations
- for (auto& info : functions)
- {
- const long dims = info->spec.lower.size();
- // If this is the very beginning of the optimization process
- if (info->ub.num_points()+info->outstanding_evals.size() < 1)
- {
- outstanding_function_eval_request new_req;
- new_req.request_id = next_request_id++;
- // Pick the point right in the center of the bounds to evaluate first since
- // people will commonly center the bound on a location they think is good.
- // So might as well try there first.
- new_req.x = (info->spec.lower + info->spec.upper)/2.0;
- for (long i = 0; i < new_req.x.size(); ++i)
- {
- if (info->spec.is_integer_variable[i])
- new_req.x(i) = std::round(new_req.x(i));
- }
- info->outstanding_evals.emplace_back(new_req);
- return function_evaluation_request(new_req,info);
- }
- else if (info->ub.num_points() < std::max<long>(3,dims))
- {
- outstanding_function_eval_request new_req;
- new_req.request_id = next_request_id++;
- new_req.x = make_random_vector(rnd, info->spec.lower, info->spec.upper, info->spec.is_integer_variable);
- info->outstanding_evals.emplace_back(new_req);
- return function_evaluation_request(new_req,info);
- }
- }
-
-
- if (do_trust_region_step && !has_outstanding_trust_region_request())
- {
- // find the currently best performing function, we will do a trust region
- // step on it.
- auto info = best_function();
- const long dims = info->spec.lower.size();
- // if we have enough points to do a trust region step
- if (info->ub.num_points() > dims+1)
- {
- auto tmp = pick_next_sample_using_trust_region(info->ub.get_points(),
- info->radius, info->spec.lower, info->spec.upper, info->spec.is_integer_variable);
- //std::cout << "QP predicted improvement: "<< tmp.predicted_improvement << std::endl;
- if (tmp.predicted_improvement > min_trust_region_epsilon)
- {
- do_trust_region_step = false;
- outstanding_function_eval_request new_req;
- new_req.request_id = next_request_id++;
- new_req.x = tmp.best_x;
- new_req.was_trust_region_generated_request = true;
- new_req.anchor_objective_value = info->best_objective_value;
- new_req.predicted_improvement = tmp.predicted_improvement;
- info->outstanding_evals.emplace_back(new_req);
- return function_evaluation_request(new_req, info);
- }
- }
- }
-
- // make it so we alternate between upper bounded and trust region steps.
- do_trust_region_step = true;
-
- if (rnd.get_random_double() >= pure_random_search_probability)
- {
- // pick a point at random to sample according to the upper bound
- double best_upper_bound = -std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity();
- std::shared_ptr<funct_info> best_funct;
- matrix<double,0,1> next_sample;
- // so figure out if any function has a good upper bound and if so pick the
- // function with the largest upper bound for evaluation.
- for (auto& info : functions)
- {
- auto tmp = pick_next_sample_as_max_upper_bound(rnd,
- info->build_upper_bound_with_all_function_evals(), info->spec.lower, info->spec.upper,
- info->spec.is_integer_variable, num_random_samples);
- if (tmp.predicted_improvement > 0 && tmp.upper_bound > best_upper_bound)
- {
- best_upper_bound = tmp.upper_bound;
- next_sample = std::move(tmp.x);
- best_funct = info;
- }
- }
-
- // if we found a good function to evaluate then return that.
- if (best_funct)
- {
- outstanding_function_eval_request new_req;
- new_req.request_id = next_request_id++;
- new_req.x = std::move(next_sample);
- best_funct->outstanding_evals.emplace_back(new_req);
- return function_evaluation_request(new_req, best_funct);
- }
- }
-
-
- // pick entirely at random
- size_t function_idx = rnd.get_integer(functions.size());
- auto info = functions[function_idx];
- outstanding_function_eval_request new_req;
- new_req.request_id = next_request_id++;
- new_req.x = make_random_vector(rnd, info->spec.lower, info->spec.upper, info->spec.is_integer_variable);
- info->outstanding_evals.emplace_back(new_req);
- return function_evaluation_request(new_req, info);
-
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- double global_function_search::
- get_pure_random_search_probability (
- ) const
- {
- return pure_random_search_probability;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- void global_function_search::
- set_pure_random_search_probability (
- double prob
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(0 <= prob && prob <= 1);
- pure_random_search_probability = prob;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- double global_function_search::
- get_solver_epsilon (
- ) const
- {
- return min_trust_region_epsilon;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- void global_function_search::
- set_solver_epsilon (
- double eps
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(0 <= eps);
- min_trust_region_epsilon = eps;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- double global_function_search::
- get_relative_noise_magnitude (
- ) const
- {
- return relative_noise_magnitude;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- void global_function_search::
- set_relative_noise_magnitude (
- double value
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(0 <= value);
- relative_noise_magnitude = value;
- if (m)
- {
- std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(*m);
- // recreate all the upper bound functions with the new relative noise magnitude
- for (auto& f : functions)
- f->ub = upper_bound_function(f->ub.get_points(), relative_noise_magnitude);
- }
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- size_t global_function_search::
- get_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num (
- ) const
- {
- return num_random_samples;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- void global_function_search::
- set_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num (
- size_t num
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(0 <= num);
- num_random_samples = num;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- std::shared_ptr<gopt_impl::funct_info> global_function_search::
- best_function(
- ) const
- {
- size_t idx = 0;
- return best_function(idx);
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- std::shared_ptr<gopt_impl::funct_info> global_function_search::
- best_function(
- size_t& idx
- ) const
- {
- auto compare = [](const std::shared_ptr<gopt_impl::funct_info>& a, const std::shared_ptr<gopt_impl::funct_info>& b)
- { return a->best_objective_value < b->best_objective_value; };
-
- auto i = std::max_element(functions.begin(), functions.end(), compare);
-
- idx = std::distance(functions.begin(),i);
- return *i;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- bool global_function_search::
- has_outstanding_trust_region_request (
- ) const
- {
- for (auto& f : functions)
- {
- for (auto& i : f->outstanding_evals)
- {
- if (i.was_trust_region_generated_request)
- return true;
- }
- }
- return false;
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-}
-
diff --git a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search.h b/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search.h
deleted file mode 100644
index fa036884a..000000000
--- a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,245 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (C) 2017 Davis E. King (davis@dlib.net)
-// License: Boost Software License See LICENSE.txt for the full license.
-#ifndef DLIB_GLOBAL_FuNCTION_SEARCH_Hh_
-#define DLIB_GLOBAL_FuNCTION_SEARCH_Hh_
-
-#include "global_function_search_abstract.h"
-#include <vector>
-#include "../matrix.h"
-#include <mutex>
-#include "../rand.h"
-#include "upper_bound_function.h"
-#include "../test_for_odr_violations.h"
-
-namespace dlib
-{
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- struct function_spec
- {
- function_spec(
- matrix<double,0,1> bound1,
- matrix<double,0,1> bound2
- );
-
- function_spec(
- matrix<double,0,1> bound1,
- matrix<double,0,1> bound2,
- std::vector<bool> is_integer
- );
-
- matrix<double,0,1> lower;
- matrix<double,0,1> upper;
- std::vector<bool> is_integer_variable;
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- namespace gopt_impl
- {
- struct outstanding_function_eval_request
- {
- size_t request_id = 0; // unique id for this eval request
- matrix<double,0,1> x; // function x to evaluate
-
- // trust region specific stuff
- bool was_trust_region_generated_request = false;
- double predicted_improvement = std::numeric_limits<double>::quiet_NaN();
- double anchor_objective_value = std::numeric_limits<double>::quiet_NaN(); // objective value at center of TR step
-
- bool operator==(const outstanding_function_eval_request& item) const { return request_id == item.request_id; }
- };
-
- struct funct_info
- {
- funct_info() = delete;
- funct_info(const funct_info&) = delete;
- funct_info& operator=(const funct_info&) = delete;
-
- funct_info(
- const function_spec& spec,
- size_t function_idx,
- const std::shared_ptr<std::mutex>& m
- ) :
- spec(spec), function_idx(function_idx), m(m)
- {
- best_x = zeros_matrix(spec.lower);
- }
-
- upper_bound_function build_upper_bound_with_all_function_evals (
- ) const;
-
- static double find_nn (
- const std::vector<function_evaluation>& evals,
- const matrix<double,0,1>& x
- );
-
-
- function_spec spec;
- size_t function_idx = 0;
- std::shared_ptr<std::mutex> m;
- upper_bound_function ub;
- std::vector<outstanding_function_eval_request> outstanding_evals;
- matrix<double,0,1> best_x;
- double best_objective_value = -std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity();
- double radius = 0;
- };
-
- }
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- class function_evaluation_request
- {
- public:
-
- function_evaluation_request() = delete;
- function_evaluation_request(const function_evaluation_request&) = delete;
- function_evaluation_request& operator=(const function_evaluation_request&) = delete;
-
-
- function_evaluation_request(function_evaluation_request&& item);
- function_evaluation_request& operator=(function_evaluation_request&& item);
-
- ~function_evaluation_request();
-
- size_t function_idx (
- ) const;
-
- const matrix<double,0,1>& x (
- ) const;
-
- bool has_been_evaluated (
- ) const;
-
- void set (
- double y
- );
-
- void swap(function_evaluation_request& item);
-
- private:
-
- friend class global_function_search;
-
- explicit function_evaluation_request(
- const gopt_impl::outstanding_function_eval_request& req,
- const std::shared_ptr<gopt_impl::funct_info>& info
- ) : req(req), info(info) {}
-
- bool m_has_been_evaluated = false;
- gopt_impl::outstanding_function_eval_request req;
- std::shared_ptr<gopt_impl::funct_info> info;
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- class global_function_search
- {
- public:
-
- global_function_search() = default;
-
- explicit global_function_search(
- const function_spec& function
- );
-
- explicit global_function_search(
- const std::vector<function_spec>& functions_
- );
-
- global_function_search(
- const std::vector<function_spec>& functions_,
- const std::vector<std::vector<function_evaluation>>& initial_function_evals,
- const double relative_noise_magnitude = 0.001
- );
-
- global_function_search(const global_function_search&) = delete;
- global_function_search& operator=(const global_function_search& item) = delete;
-
- global_function_search(global_function_search&& item) = default;
- global_function_search& operator=(global_function_search&& item) = default;
-
- size_t num_functions(
- ) const;
-
- void set_seed (
- time_t seed
- );
-
- void get_function_evaluations (
- std::vector<function_spec>& specs,
- std::vector<std::vector<function_evaluation>>& function_evals
- ) const;
-
- void get_best_function_eval (
- matrix<double,0,1>& x,
- double& y,
- size_t& function_idx
- ) const;
-
- function_evaluation_request get_next_x (
- );
-
- double get_pure_random_search_probability (
- ) const;
-
- void set_pure_random_search_probability (
- double prob
- );
-
- double get_solver_epsilon (
- ) const;
-
- void set_solver_epsilon (
- double eps
- );
-
- double get_relative_noise_magnitude (
- ) const;
-
- void set_relative_noise_magnitude (
- double value
- );
-
- size_t get_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num (
- ) const;
-
- void set_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num (
- size_t num
- );
-
- private:
-
- std::shared_ptr<gopt_impl::funct_info> best_function(
- ) const;
-
- std::shared_ptr<gopt_impl::funct_info> best_function(
- size_t& idx
- ) const;
-
- bool has_outstanding_trust_region_request (
- ) const;
-
-
- dlib::rand rnd;
- double pure_random_search_probability = 0.02;
- double min_trust_region_epsilon = 0;
- double relative_noise_magnitude = 0.001;
- size_t num_random_samples = 5000;
- bool do_trust_region_step = true;
-
- size_t next_request_id = 1;
-
- std::vector<std::shared_ptr<gopt_impl::funct_info>> functions;
- std::shared_ptr<std::mutex> m;
-
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-}
-
-#endif // DLIB_GLOBAL_FuNCTION_SEARCH_Hh_
-
diff --git a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search_abstract.h b/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/global_function_search_abstract.h
deleted file mode 100644
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-// Copyright (C) 2017 Davis E. King (davis@dlib.net)
-// License: Boost Software License See LICENSE.txt for the full license.
-#undef DLIB_GLOBAL_FuNCTION_SEARCH_ABSTRACT_Hh_
-#ifdef DLIB_GLOBAL_FuNCTION_SEARCH_ABSTRACT_Hh_
-
-#include <vector>
-#include "../matrix.h"
-#include "upper_bound_function_abstract.h"
-
-namespace dlib
-{
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- struct function_spec
- {
- /*!
- WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS
- This object is a simple struct that lets you define the valid inputs to a
- multivariate function. It lets you define bound constraints for each
- variable as well as say if a variable is integer valued or not. Therefore,
- an instance of this struct says that a function takes upper.size() input
- variables, where the ith variable must be in the range [lower(i) upper(i)]
- and be an integer if is_integer_variable[i]==true.
- !*/
-
- function_spec(
- matrix<double,0,1> bound1,
- matrix<double,0,1> bound2
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - bound1.size() == bound2.size()
- - for all valid i: bound1(i) != bound2(i)
- ensures
- - #is_integer_variable.size() == bound1.size()
- - #lower.size() == bound1.size()
- - #upper.size() == bound1.size()
- - for all valid i:
- - #is_integer_variable[i] == false
- - #lower(i) == min(bound1(i), bound2(i))
- - #upper(i) == max(bound1(i), bound2(i))
- !*/
-
- function_spec(
- matrix<double,0,1> lower,
- matrix<double,0,1> upper,
- std::vector<bool> is_integer
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - bound1.size() == bound2.size() == is_integer.size()
- - for all valid i: bound1(i) != bound2(i)
- ensures
- - #is_integer_variable.size() == bound1.size()
- - #lower.size() == bound1.size()
- - #upper.size() == bound1.size()
- - for all valid i:
- - #is_integer_variable[i] == is_integer[i]
- - #lower(i) == min(bound1(i), bound2(i))
- - #upper(i) == max(bound1(i), bound2(i))
- !*/
-
- matrix<double,0,1> lower;
- matrix<double,0,1> upper;
- std::vector<bool> is_integer_variable;
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- class function_evaluation_request
- {
- /*!
- WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS
- This object represents a request, by the global_function_search object, to
- evaluate a real-valued function and report back the results.
-
- THREAD SAFETY
- You shouldn't let more than one thread touch a function_evaluation_request
- at the same time. However, it is safe to send instances of this class to
- other threads for processing. This lets you evaluate multiple
- function_evaluation_requests in parallel. Any appropriate synchronization
- with regard to the originating global_function_search instance is handled
- automatically.
- !*/
-
- public:
-
- // You can't make or copy this object, the only way to get one is from the
- // global_function_search class via get_next_x().
- function_evaluation_request() = delete;
- function_evaluation_request(const function_evaluation_request&) = delete;
- function_evaluation_request& operator=(const function_evaluation_request&) = delete;
-
- // You can however move and swap this object.
- function_evaluation_request(function_evaluation_request&& item);
- function_evaluation_request& operator=(function_evaluation_request&& item);
- /*!
- ensures
- - *this takes the state of item.
- - #item.has_been_evaluated() == true
- !*/
-
- ~function_evaluation_request(
- );
- /*!
- ensures
- - frees all resources associated with this object.
- - It's fine to destruct function_evaluation_requests even if they haven't
- been evaluated yet. If this happens it will simply be as if the request
- was never issued.
- !*/
-
- size_t function_idx (
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - Returns the function index that identifies which function is to be
- evaluated.
- !*/
-
- const matrix<double,0,1>& x (
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - returns the input parameters to the function to be evaluated.
- !*/
-
- bool has_been_evaluated (
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - If this evaluation request is still outstanding then returns false,
- otherwise returns true. That is, if the global_function_search is still
- waiting for you report back by calling set() then
- has_been_evaluated()==false.
- !*/
-
- void set (
- double y
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - has_been_evaluated() == false
- ensures
- - #has_been_evaluated() == true
- - Notifies the global_function_search instance that created this object
- that when the function_idx()th function is evaluated with x() as input
- then the output is y.
- !*/
-
- void swap(
- function_evaluation_request& item
- );
- /*!
- ensures
- - swaps the state of *this and item
- !*/
-
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- class global_function_search
- {
- /*!
- WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS
- This object performs global optimization of a set of user supplied
- functions. The goal is to maximize the following objective function:
- max_{function_i,x_i}: function_i(x_i)
- subject to bound constraints on each element of x_i. Moreover, each
- element of x_i can be either real valued or integer valued. Each of the
- functions can also take a different number of variables. Therefore, the
- final result of the optimization tells you which function produced the
- largest output and what input (i.e. the x value) to that function is
- necessary to obtain that maximal value.
-
- Importantly, the global_function_search object does not require the user to
- supply derivatives. Moreover, the functions may contain discontinuities,
- behave stochastically, and have many local maxima. The global_function_search
- object will attempt to find the global optima in the face of these challenges.
- It is also designed to use as few function evaluations as possible, making
- it suitable for optimizing functions that are very expensive to evaluate.
-
- It does this by alternating between two modes. A global exploration mode
- and a local optima refinement mode. This is accomplished by building and
- maintaining two models of the objective function:
- 1. A global model that upper bounds our objective function. This is a
- non-parametric piecewise linear model based on all function
- evaluations ever seen by the global_function_search object.
- 2. A local quadratic model fit around the best point seen so far.
-
- The optimization procedure therefore looks like this:
-
- while(not done)
- {
- DO GLOBAL EXPLORE STEP:
- Find the point that maximizes the upper bounding model since
- that is the point with the largest possible improvement in the
- objective function.
-
- Evaluate the new point and incorporate it into our models.
-
- DO LOCAL REFINEMENT STEP:
- Find the optimal solution to the local quadratic model.
-
- If this point looks like it will improve on the "best point seen
- so far" by at least get_solver_epsilon() then we evaluate that
- point and incorporate it into our models, otherwise we ignore
- it.
- }
-
- You can see that we alternate between global search and local refinement,
- except in the case where the local model seems to have converged to within
- get_solver_epsilon() accuracy. In that case only global search steps are
- used. We do this in the hope that the global search will find a new and
- better local optima to explore, which would then reactivate local
- refinement when it has something productive to do.
-
-
- Now let's turn our attention to the specific API defined by the
- global_function_search object. We will begin by showing a short example of
- its use:
-
- // Suppose we want to find which of these functions, F() and G(), have
- // the largest output and what input is necessary to produce the
- // maximal output.
- auto F = [](double a, double b) { return -std::pow(a-2,2.0) - std::pow(b-4,2.0); };
- auto G = [](double x) { return 2-std::pow(x-5,2.0); };
-
- // We first define function_spec objects that specify bounds on the
- // inputs to each function. The search process will only search within
- // these bounds.
- function_spec spec_F({-10,-10}, {10,10});
- function_spec spec_G({-2}, {6});
- // Then we create a global_function_search object with those function specifications.
- global_function_search opt({spec_F, spec_G});
-
- // Here we run 15 iterations of the search process. Note that the user
- // of global_function_search writes the main solver loop, which is
- // somewhat unusual. We will discuss why that is in a moment, but for
- // now let's look at this example.
- for (int i = 0; i < 15; ++i)
- {
- // All we do here is ask the global_function_search object what to
- // evaluate next, then do what it asked, and then report the
- // results back by calling function_evaluation_request's set()
- // method.
- function_evaluation_request next = opt.get_next_x();
- // next.function_idx() tells you which of the functions you should
- // evaluate. We have 2 functions here (F and G) so function_idx()
- // can take only the values 0 and 1. If, for example, we had 10
- // functions it would take the values 0 through 9.
- if (next.function_idx() == 0)
- {
- // Call F with the inputs requested by the
- // global_function_search and report them back.
- double a = next.x()(0);
- double b = next.x()(1);
- next.set(F(a,b)); // Tell the solver what happened.
- }
- else
- {
- double x = next.x()(0);
- next.set(G(x));
- }
- }
-
- // Find out what point gave the largest outputs:
- matrix<double,0,1> x;
- double y;
- size_t function_idx;
- opt.get_best_function_eval(x,y,function_idx);
-
- cout << "function_idx: "<< function_idx << endl;
- cout << "y: " << y << endl;
- cout << "x: " << x << endl;
-
- The above cout statements will print this:
-
- function_idx: 1
- y: 2
- x: 5
-
- Which is the correct result since G(5) gives the largest possible output in
- our example.
-
- So why does the user write the main loop? Why isn't it embedded inside
- dlib? Well, there are two answers to this. The first is that it is. Most
- users should just call dlib::find_max_global() which does exactly that, it
- runs the loop for you. However, the API shown above gives you the
- opportunity to run multiple function evaluations in parallel. For
- instance, it is perfectly valid to call get_next_x() multiple times and
- send the resulting function_evaluation_request objects to separate threads
- for processing. Those separate threads can run the functions being
- optimized (e.g. F and G or whatever) and report back by calling
- function_evaluation_request::set(). You could even spread the work across
- a compute cluster if you have one.
-
- So what happens if you have N outstanding function evaluation requests?
- Or in other words, what happens if you called get_next_x() N times and
- haven't yet called their set() methods? Well, 1 of the N requests will be
- a local refinement step while the N-1 other requests will be global
- exploration steps generated from the current upper bounding model. This
- should give you an idea of the usefulness of this kind of parallelism. If
- for example, your functions being optimized were simple convex functions
- this kind of parallelism wouldn't help since essentially all the
- interesting work in the solver is going to be done by the local optimizer.
- However, if your function has a lot of local optima, running many global
- exploration steps in parallel might significantly reduce the time it takes
- to find a good solution.
-
- It should also be noted that our upper bounding model is implemented by the
- dlib::upper_bound_function object, which is a tool that allows us to create
- a tight upper bound on our objective function. This upper bound is
- non-parametric and gets progressively more accurate as the optimization
- progresses, but also more and more expensive to maintain. It causes the
- runtime of the entire optimization procedure to be O(N^2) where N is the
- number of objective function evaluations. So problems that require millions
- of function evaluations to find a good solution are not appropriate for the
- global_function_search tool. However, if your objective function is very
- expensive to evaluate then this relatively expensive upper bounding model
- is well worth its computational cost.
-
- Finally, let's introduce some background literature on this algorithm. The
- two most relevant papers in the optimization literature are:
- Global optimization of Lipschitz functions Malherbe, Cédric and Vayatis,
- Nicolas International Conference on Machine Learning - 2017
- and
- The NEWUOA software for unconstrained optimization without derivatives By
- M.J.D. Powell, 40th Workshop on Large Scale Nonlinear Optimization (Erice,
- Italy, 2004)
-
- Our upper bounding model is an extension of the AdaLIPO method in the
- Malherbe. See the documentation of dlib::upper_bound_function for more
- details on that, as we make a number of important extensions. The other
- part of our method, our local refinement model, is essentially the same
- type of trust region model proposed by Powell in the above paper. That is,
- each time we do a local refinement step we identify the best point seen so
- far, fit a quadratic function around it using the function evaluations we
- have collected so far, and then use a simple trust region procedure to
- decide the next best point to evaluate based on our quadratic model.
-
- The method proposed by Malherbe gives excellent global search performance
- but has terrible convergence properties in the area around a maxima.
- Powell's method on the other hand has excellent convergence in the area
- around a local maxima, as expected by a quadratic trust region method, but
- is aggressively local maxima seeking. It will simply get stuck in the
- nearest local optima. Combining the two together as we do here gives us
- excellent performance in both global search and final convergence speed
- near a local optima. Causing the global_function_search to perform well
- for functions with many local optima while still giving high precision
- solutions. For instance, on typical tests problems, like the Holder table
- function, the global_function_search object can reliably find the globally
- optimal solution to full floating point precision in under a few hundred
- steps.
-
-
- THREAD SAFETY
- You shouldn't let more than one thread touch a global_function_search
- instance at the same time.
- !*/
-
- public:
-
- global_function_search(
- );
- /*!
- ensures
- - #num_functions() == 0
- - #get_relative_noise_magnitude() == 0.001
- - #get_solver_epsilon() == 0
- - #get_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num() == 5000
- - #get_pure_random_search_probability() == 0.02
- !*/
-
- explicit global_function_search(
- const function_spec& function
- );
- /*!
- ensures
- - #num_functions() == 1
- - #get_function_evaluations() will indicate that there are no function evaluations yet.
- - #get_relative_noise_magnitude() == 0.001
- - #get_solver_epsilon() == 0
- - #get_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num() == 5000
- - #get_pure_random_search_probability() == 0.02
- !*/
-
- explicit global_function_search(
- const std::vector<function_spec>& functions
- );
- /*!
- ensures
- - #num_functions() == functions.size()
- - #get_function_evaluations() will indicate that there are no function evaluations yet.
- - #get_relative_noise_magnitude() == 0.001
- - #get_solver_epsilon() == 0
- - #get_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num() == 5000
- - #get_pure_random_search_probability() == 0.02
- !*/
-
- global_function_search(
- const std::vector<function_spec>& functions,
- const std::vector<std::vector<function_evaluation>>& initial_function_evals,
- const double relative_noise_magnitude = 0.001
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - functions.size() == initial_function_evals.size()
- - relative_noise_magnitude >= 0
- ensures
- - #num_functions() == functions.size()
- - #get_function_evaluations() will return the provided initial_function_evals.
- - #get_relative_noise_magnitude() == relative_noise_magnitude
- - #get_solver_epsilon() == 0
- - #get_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num() == 5000
- - #get_pure_random_search_probability() == 0.02
- !*/
-
- // This object can't be copied.
- global_function_search(const global_function_search&) = delete;
- global_function_search& operator=(const global_function_search& item) = delete;
- // But it can be moved
- global_function_search(global_function_search&& item) = default;
- global_function_search& operator=(global_function_search&& item) = default;
- /*!
- ensures
- - moves the state of item into *this
- - #item.num_functions() == 0
- !*/
-
- void set_seed (
- time_t seed
- );
- /*!
- ensures
- - Part of this object's algorithm uses random sampling to decide what
- points to evaluate next. Calling set_seed() lets you set the seed used
- by the random number generator. Note that if you don't call set_seed()
- you will always get the same deterministic behavior.
- !*/
-
- size_t num_functions(
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - returns the number of functions being optimized.
- !*/
-
- void get_function_evaluations (
- std::vector<function_spec>& specs,
- std::vector<std::vector<function_evaluation>>& function_evals
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - #specs.size() == num_functions()
- - #function_evals.size() == num_functions()
- - This function allows you to query the state of the solver. In
- particular, you can find the function_specs for each function being
- optimized and their recorded evaluations.
- - for all valid i:
- - function_evals[i] == all the function evaluations that have been
- recorded for the ith function (i.e. the function with the
- function_spec #specs[i]). That is, this is the record of all the x
- and y values reported back by function_evaluation_request::set()
- calls.
- !*/
-
- void get_best_function_eval (
- matrix<double,0,1>& x,
- double& y,
- size_t& function_idx
- ) const;
- /*!
- requires
- - num_functions() != 0
- ensures
- - if (no function evaluations have been recorded yet) then
- - The outputs of this function are in a valid but undefined state.
- - else
- - This function tells you which function has produced the largest
- output seen so far. It also tells you the inputs to that function
- that leads to those outputs (x) as well as the output value itself (y).
- - 0 <= #function_idx < num_functions()
- - #function_idx == the index of the function that produced the largest output seen so far.
- - #x == the input parameters to the function that produced the largest outputs seen so far.
- - #y == the largest output seen so far.
- !*/
-
- function_evaluation_request get_next_x (
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - num_functions() != 0
- ensures
- - Generates and returns a function evaluation request. See the discussion
- in the WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS section above for details.
- !*/
-
- double get_pure_random_search_probability (
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - When we decide to do a global explore step we will, with probability
- get_pure_random_search_probability(), sample a point completely at random
- rather than using the upper bounding model. Therefore, if you set this
- probability to 0 then we will depend entirely on the upper bounding
- model. Alternatively, if you set get_pure_random_search_probability() to
- 1 then we won't use the upper bounding model at all and instead use pure
- random search to do global exploration. Pure random search is much
- faster than using the upper bounding model, so if you know that your
- objective function is especially simple it can be faster to use pure
- random search. However, if you really know your function that well you
- should probably use a gradient based optimizer :)
- !*/
-
- void set_pure_random_search_probability (
- double prob
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - prob >= 0
- ensures
- - #get_pure_random_search_probability() == prob
- !*/
-
- double get_solver_epsilon (
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - As discussed in the WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS section, we only do a
- local refinement step if we haven't already found the peak of the current
- local optima. get_solver_epsilon() sets the tolerance for deciding if
- the local search method has found the local optima. Therefore, when the
- local trust region model runs we check if its predicted improvement in
- the objective function is greater than get_solver_epsilon(). If it isn't
- then we assume it has converged and we should focus entirely on global
- search.
-
- This means that, for instance, setting get_solver_epsilon() to 0
- essentially instructs the solver to find each local optima to full
- floating point precision and only then to focus on pure global search.
- !*/
-
- void set_solver_epsilon (
- double eps
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - eps >= 0
- ensures
- - #get_solver_epsilon() == eps
- !*/
-
- double get_relative_noise_magnitude (
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - Returns the value of the relative noise magnitude parameter to the
- dlib::upper_bound_function's used by this object. See the
- upper_bound_function's documentation for a detailed discussion of this
- parameter's meaning. Most users should leave this value as its default
- setting.
- !*/
-
- void set_relative_noise_magnitude (
- double value
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - value >= 0
- ensures
- - #get_relative_noise_magnitude() == value
- !*/
-
- size_t get_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num (
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - To find the point that maximizes the upper bounding model we use
- get_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num() random evaluations and select
- the largest upper bound from that set. So this parameter influences how
- well we estimate the maximum point on the upper bounding model.
- !*/
-
- void set_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num (
- size_t num
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - num > 0
- ensures
- - #get_monte_carlo_upper_bound_sample_num() == num
- !*/
-
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-}
-
-#endif // DLIB_GLOBAL_FuNCTION_SEARCH_ABSTRACT_Hh_
-
-
diff --git a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/upper_bound_function.h b/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/upper_bound_function.h
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-// Copyright (C) 2017 Davis E. King (davis@dlib.net)
-// License: Boost Software License See LICENSE.txt for the full license.
-#ifndef DLIB_UPPER_bOUND_FUNCTION_Hh_
-#define DLIB_UPPER_bOUND_FUNCTION_Hh_
-
-#include "upper_bound_function_abstract.h"
-#include "../svm/svm_c_linear_dcd_trainer.h"
-#include "../statistics.h"
-#include <limits>
-#include <utility>
-
-namespace dlib
-{
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- struct function_evaluation
- {
- function_evaluation() = default;
- function_evaluation(const matrix<double,0,1>& x, double y) :x(x), y(y) {}
-
- matrix<double,0,1> x;
- double y = std::numeric_limits<double>::quiet_NaN();
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- class upper_bound_function
- {
-
- public:
-
- upper_bound_function(
- ) = default;
-
- upper_bound_function(
- const double relative_noise_magnitude,
- const double solver_eps
- ) : relative_noise_magnitude(relative_noise_magnitude), solver_eps(solver_eps)
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(relative_noise_magnitude >= 0);
- DLIB_CASSERT(solver_eps > 0);
- }
-
- explicit upper_bound_function(
- const std::vector<function_evaluation>& _points,
- const double relative_noise_magnitude = 0.001,
- const double solver_eps = 0.0001
- ) : relative_noise_magnitude(relative_noise_magnitude), solver_eps(solver_eps), points(_points)
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(relative_noise_magnitude >= 0);
- DLIB_CASSERT(solver_eps > 0);
-
- if (points.size() > 1)
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(points[0].x.size() > 0, "The vectors can't be empty.");
-
- const long dims = points[0].x.size();
- for (auto& p : points)
- DLIB_CASSERT(p.x.size() == dims, "All the vectors given to upper_bound_function must have the same dimensionality.");
-
- learn_params();
- }
-
- }
-
- void add (
- const function_evaluation& point
- )
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(point.x.size() != 0, "The vectors can't be empty.");
- if (points.size() == 0)
- {
- points.push_back(point);
- return;
- }
-
- DLIB_CASSERT(point.x.size() == dimensionality(), "All the vectors given to upper_bound_function must have the same dimensionality.");
-
- if (points.size() < 4)
- {
- points.push_back(point);
- *this = upper_bound_function(points, relative_noise_magnitude, solver_eps);
- return;
- }
-
- points.push_back(point);
- // add constraints between the new point and the old points
- for (size_t i = 0; i < points.size()-1; ++i)
- active_constraints.push_back(std::make_pair(i,points.size()-1));
-
- learn_params();
- }
-
- long num_points(
- ) const
- {
- return points.size();
- }
-
- long dimensionality(
- ) const
- {
- if (points.size() == 0)
- return 0;
- else
- return points[0].x.size();
- }
-
- const std::vector<function_evaluation>& get_points(
- ) const
- {
- return points;
- }
-
- double operator() (
- const matrix<double,0,1>& x
- ) const
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(num_points() > 0);
- DLIB_CASSERT(x.size() == dimensionality());
-
-
-
- double upper_bound = std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity();
-
- for (size_t i = 0; i < points.size(); ++i)
- {
- const double local_bound = points[i].y + std::sqrt(offsets[i] + dot(slopes, squared(x-points[i].x)));
- upper_bound = std::min(upper_bound, local_bound);
- }
-
- return upper_bound;
- }
-
- private:
-
- void learn_params (
- )
- {
- const long dims = points[0].x.size();
-
- using sample_type = std::vector<std::pair<size_t,double>>;
- using kernel_type = sparse_linear_kernel<sample_type>;
- std::vector<sample_type> x;
- std::vector<double> y;
-
- // We are going to normalize the data so the values aren't extreme. First, we
- // collect statistics on our data.
- std::vector<running_stats<double>> x_rs(dims);
- running_stats<double> y_rs;
- for (auto& v : points)
- {
- for (long i = 0; i < v.x.size(); ++i)
- x_rs[i].add(v.x(i));
- y_rs.add(v.y);
- }
-
-
- // compute normalization vectors for the data. The only reason we do this is
- // to make the optimization well conditioned. In particular, scaling the y
- // values will prevent numerical errors in the 1-diff*diff computation below that
- // would otherwise result when diff is really big. Also, scaling the xvalues
- // to be about 1 will similarly make the optimization more stable and it also
- // has the added benefit of keeping the relative_noise_magnitude's scale
- // constant regardless of the size of x values.
- const double yscale = 1.0/y_rs.stddev();
- std::vector<double> xscale(dims);
- for (size_t i = 0; i < xscale.size(); ++i)
- xscale[i] = 1.0/(x_rs[i].stddev()*yscale); // make it so that xscale[i]*yscale == 1/x_rs[i].stddev()
-
- sample_type samp;
- auto add_constraint = [&](long i, long j) {
- samp.clear();
- for (long k = 0; k < dims; ++k)
- {
- double temp = (points[i].x(k) - points[j].x(k))*xscale[k]*yscale;
- samp.push_back(std::make_pair(k, temp*temp));
- }
-
- if (points[i].y > points[j].y)
- samp.push_back(std::make_pair(dims + j, relative_noise_magnitude));
- else
- samp.push_back(std::make_pair(dims + i, relative_noise_magnitude));
-
- const double diff = (points[i].y - points[j].y)*yscale;
- samp.push_back(std::make_pair(dims + points.size(), 1-diff*diff));
-
- x.push_back(samp);
- y.push_back(1);
- };
-
- if (active_constraints.size() == 0)
- {
- x.reserve(points.size()*(points.size()-1)/2);
- y.reserve(points.size()*(points.size()-1)/2);
- for (size_t i = 0; i < points.size(); ++i)
- {
- for (size_t j = i+1; j < points.size(); ++j)
- {
- add_constraint(i,j);
- }
- }
- }
- else
- {
- for (auto& p : active_constraints)
- add_constraint(p.first, p.second);
- }
-
-
-
-
- svm_c_linear_dcd_trainer<kernel_type> trainer;
- trainer.set_c(std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity());
- //trainer.be_verbose();
- trainer.force_last_weight_to_1(true);
- trainer.set_epsilon(solver_eps);
-
- svm_c_linear_dcd_trainer<kernel_type>::optimizer_state state;
- auto df = trainer.train(x,y, state);
-
- // save the active constraints for later so we can use them inside add() to add
- // new points efficiently.
- if (active_constraints.size() == 0)
- {
- long k = 0;
- for (size_t i = 0; i < points.size(); ++i)
- {
- for (size_t j = i+1; j < points.size(); ++j)
- {
- if (state.get_alpha()[k++] != 0)
- active_constraints.push_back(std::make_pair(i,j));
- }
- }
- }
- else
- {
- DLIB_CASSERT(state.get_alpha().size() == active_constraints.size());
- new_active_constraints.clear();
- for (size_t i = 0; i < state.get_alpha().size(); ++i)
- {
- if (state.get_alpha()[i] != 0)
- new_active_constraints.push_back(active_constraints[i]);
- }
- active_constraints.swap(new_active_constraints);
- }
-
- //std::cout << "points.size(): " << points.size() << std::endl;
- //std::cout << "active_constraints.size(): " << active_constraints.size() << std::endl;
-
-
- const auto& bv = df.basis_vectors(0);
- slopes.set_size(dims);
- for (long i = 0; i < dims; ++i)
- slopes(i) = bv[i].second*xscale[i]*xscale[i];
-
- //std::cout << "slopes:" << trans(slopes);
-
- offsets.assign(points.size(),0);
-
-
- for (size_t i = 0; i < points.size(); ++i)
- {
- offsets[i] += bv[slopes.size()+i].second*relative_noise_magnitude;
- }
- }
-
-
-
- double relative_noise_magnitude = 0.001;
- double solver_eps = 0.0001;
- std::vector<std::pair<size_t,size_t>> active_constraints, new_active_constraints;
-
- std::vector<function_evaluation> points;
- std::vector<double> offsets; // offsets.size() == points.size()
- matrix<double,0,1> slopes; // slopes.size() == points[0].first.size()
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-}
-
-#endif // DLIB_UPPER_bOUND_FUNCTION_Hh_
-
-
diff --git a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/upper_bound_function_abstract.h b/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/upper_bound_function_abstract.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 56b361597..000000000
--- a/ml/dlib/dlib/global_optimization/upper_bound_function_abstract.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,212 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (C) 2017 Davis E. King (davis@dlib.net)
-// License: Boost Software License See LICENSE.txt for the full license.
-#undef DLIB_UPPER_bOUND_FUNCTION_ABSTRACT_Hh_
-#ifdef DLIB_UPPER_bOUND_FUNCTION_ABSTRACT_Hh_
-
-#include "../matrix.h"
-#include <limits>
-
-namespace dlib
-{
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- struct function_evaluation
- {
- /*!
- WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS
- This object records the output of a real valued function in response to
- some input.
-
- In particular, if you have a function F(x) then the function_evaluation is
- simply a struct that records x and the scalar value F(x).
- !*/
-
- function_evaluation() = default;
- function_evaluation(const matrix<double,0,1>& x, double y) :x(x), y(y) {}
-
- matrix<double,0,1> x;
- double y = std::numeric_limits<double>::quiet_NaN();
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- class upper_bound_function
- {
- /*!
- WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS
- This object represents a piecewise linear non-parametric function that can
- be used to define an upper bound on some more complex and unknown function.
- To describe this precisely, lets assume there is a function F(x) which you
- are capable of sampling from but otherwise know nothing about, and that you
- would like to find an upper bounding function U(x) such that U(x) >= F(x)
- for any x. It would also be good if U(x)-F(x) was minimal. I.e. we would
- like U(x) to be a tight upper bound, not something vacuous like U(x) =
- infinity.
-
- The upper_bound_function class is a tool for creating this kind of upper
- bounding function from a set of function_evaluations of F(x). We do this
- by considering only U(x) of the form:
- U = [](matrix<double,0,1> x) {
- double min_ub = infinity;
- for (size_t i = 0; i < POINTS.size(); ++i) {
- function_evaluation p = POINTS[i]
- double local_bound = p.y + sqrt(noise_terms[i] + trans(p.x-x)*M*(p.x-x))
- min_ub = min(min_ub, local_bound)
- }
- return min_ub;
- }
- Where POINTS is an array of function_evaluation instances drawn from F(x),
- M is a diagonal matrix, and noise_terms is an array of scalars.
-
- To create an upper bound U(x), the upper_bound_function takes a POINTS array
- containing evaluations of F(x) as input and solves the following quadratic
- program to find the parameters of U(x):
-
- min_{M,noise_terms}: sum(squared(M)) + sum(squared(noise_terms/relative_noise_magnitude))
- s.t. U(POINTS[i].x) >= POINTS[i].y, for all i
- noise_terms[i] >= 0
- min(M) >= 0
- M is a diagonal matrix
-
- Therefore, the quadratic program finds the U(x) that always upper bounds
- F(x) on the supplied POINTS, but is otherwise as small as possible.
-
-
-
- The inspiration for the upper_bound_function object came from the AdaLIPO
- algorithm from this excellent paper:
- Global optimization of Lipschitz functions
- Malherbe, Cédric and Vayatis, Nicolas
- International Conference on Machine Learning - 2017
- In that paper, they propose to use a simpler U(x) where noise_terms is
- always 0 and M is a diagonal matrix where each diagonal element is the same
- value. Therefore, there is only a single scalar parameter for U(x) in
- their formulation of the problem. This causes difficulties if F(x) is
- stochastic or has discontinuities since, without the noise term, M will
- become really huge and the upper bound becomes vacuously large. It is also
- problematic if the gradient of F(x) with respect to x contains elements of
- widely varying magnitude since the simpler formulation of U(x) assumes a
- uniform rate of change regardless of which dimension is varying.
- !*/
-
- public:
-
- upper_bound_function(
- );
- /*!
- ensures
- - #num_points() == 0
- - #dimensionality() == 0
- !*/
-
- explicit upper_bound_function(
- const std::vector<function_evaluation>& points,
- const double relative_noise_magnitude = 0.001,
- const double solver_eps = 0.0001
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - all the x vectors in points must have the same non-zero dimensionality.
- - relative_noise_magnitude >= 0
- - solver_eps > 0
- ensures
- - Creates an upper bounding function U(x), as described above, assuming that
- the given points are drawn from F(x).
- - Uses the provided relative_noise_magnitude when solving the QP, as
- described above. Note that relative_noise_magnitude can be set to 0. If
- you do this then all the noise terms are constrained to 0. You should
- only do this if you know F(x) is non-stochastic and continuous
- everywhere.
- - When solving the QP used to find the parameters of U(x), the upper
- bounding function, we solve the QP to solver_eps accuracy. It's
- possible that large enough solver_eps can lead to upper bounds that don't
- upper bound all the supplied points. But for reasonable epsilon values
- this shouldn't be a problem.
- - #num_points() == points.size()
- - #dimensionality() == points[0].x.size()
- !*/
-
- upper_bound_function(
- const double relative_noise_magnitude,
- const double solver_eps
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - relative_noise_magnitude >= 0
- - solver_eps > 0
- ensures
- - #num_points() == 0
- - #dimensionality() == 0
- - This destructor is the same as calling the above constructor with points.size()==0
- !*/
-
-
- void add (
- const function_evaluation& point
- );
- /*!
- requires
- - num_points() == 0 || point.x.size() == dimensionality()
- - point.x.size() != 0
- ensures
- - Adds point to get_points().
- - Incrementally updates the upper bounding function with the given function
- evaluation. That is, we assume that F(point.x)==point.y and solve the QP
- described above to find the new U(x) that upper bounds all the points
- this object knows about (i.e. all the points in get_points() and the new point).
- - Calling add() is much faster than recreating the upper_bound_function
- from scratch with all the points. This is because we warm start with the
- previous solution to the QP. This is done by discarding any non-active
- constraints and solving the QP again with only the previously active
- constraints and the new constraints formed by all the pairs of the new
- point and the old points. This means the QP solved by add() is much
- smaller than the QP that would be solved by a fresh call to the
- upper_bound_function constructor.
- !*/
-
- const std::vector<function_evaluation>& get_points(
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - returns the points from F(x) used to define this upper bounding function.
- These are all the function_evaluation objects given to this object via
- its constructor and add().
- !*/
-
- long num_points(
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - returns the number of points used to define the upper bounding function.
- (i.e. returns get_points().size())
- !*/
-
- long dimensionality(
- ) const;
- /*!
- ensures
- - returns the dimensionality of the input vectors to the upper bounding function.
- !*/
-
- double operator() (
- const matrix<double,0,1>& x
- ) const;
- /*!
- requires
- - num_points() > 0
- - x.size() == dimensionality()
- ensures
- - return U(x)
- (i.e. returns the upper bound on F(x) at x given by our upper bounding function)
- !*/
-
- };
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-}
-
-#endif // DLIB_UPPER_bOUND_FUNCTION_ABSTRACT_Hh_
-
-