1. Add abseil-cpp as a submodule. We are tracking the latest LTS
release, which is lts_2024_01_16.
2. Replace glog/gflags with absl::log and absl::flags.
3. Remove miniglog
4. Also take a whack at making the bazel build work with
abseil-cpp and gtest.
There are a number of TODOs in this CL that still need to be resolved.
Change-Id: I39355ed7d61375be4ebcbc8596d9cc70acc1c678
1. Add a version history
2. Update copyright years across the code base
3. Run format_all.sh
4. Update version strings from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 in the docs and
elsewhere.
Change-Id: I46d8d479d54bd6002d532785e67342106e73c9ac
1. Add threading to all three subclasses of BlockRandomAccessMatrix.
i.e. BlockRandomAccessDenseMatrix, BlockRandomAccessSparseMatrix
and BlockRandomAccessDenseMatrix.
For BlockRandomAccessDenseMatrix and BlockRandomAccessSparseMatrix
this just means SetZero is parallelized. Which by itself is no
big deal, but by doing so, the constructor for all three subclasses
become uniform.
BlockRandomAccessSparseMatrix::SymmetricRightMultiplyAndAccumulate
maybe threaded in the future if needed.
BlockRandomAccessDiagonalMatrix is the biggest beneficiary. SetZero
Invert and RightMultiplyAndAccumulate are all threaded now.
2. Change the storage in BlockRandomAccessDiagonalMatrix from
TripletSparseMatrix to CompressedRowSparseMatrix. This has no
performance implications since we do not really use the capabilities
of the underlying matrix indexing representation. This is a forward
looking change when we decide to transfer this matrix to the GPU,
a CompressedRowSparseMatrix will save on a data conversion.
3. Use std::unique_ptr as needed and eliminate the need for custom
destructors.
4. Modify CompressedRowSparseMatrix::CreateBlockDiagonalMatrix to
take a nullptr as the data vector.
Fixes https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver/issues/936
Fixes https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver/issues/935
Change-Id: Ia6487f2d924fbe669835bdcc38abf2b451bda4ee
Previously some matrices used Block to keep track of
row/column block sizes and some would just use ints, and
then compute the position of each row and column from it.
By uniformly using Block everywhere, we reduce duplicate
computation and data copies.
I also cleaned up a bunch of c++17 related stuff as I edited
these files.
Change-Id: I4c86b1593fd4c91f9057fbb38314f62f303e0477
Implementation of "Power Bundle Adjustment for Large-Scale 3D
Reconstruction" by Weber et. al. added in the form of preconditioner.
Change-Id: Ie85526a5fc46f74256f6dfe9173c3571f7160f3a
These methods were historically poorly named and every time I read code
I get confused whether they are just multiplying or multiplying and
adding. Clarifying them also gives us the changce to introduce
RightMultiply and LeftMultiply methods in the base class which will
simplify a number call sites in a subsequent CL.
Fixes https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver/issues/855
Change-Id: Ice4fb483f1acd02527a6dd753ef0c5a66037f4b0
- Change formatting standard to Cpp11. Main difference is not having
the space between two closing >> for nested templates. We don't
choose c++14, because older versions of clang-format (version 9
and earlier) don't know this value yet, and it doesn't make a
difference in the formatting.
- Apply clang-format to all (non generated) internal source files.
- Manually fix some code sections (clang-format on/off) and c-strings
- Exclude some embedded external files with very different formatting
(gtest/gmock)
- Add script to format all source files
Change-Id: Ic6cea41575ad6e37c9e136dbce176b0d505dc44d
A number of algorithms like the SchurEliminator do not need
access to the full BlockSparseMatrix interface. They only
need read only access to the values array and the block structure.
This change introduces, BlockSparseDataMatrix a struct that carries
these two bits of information and modifies the Schur type algorithms
to use it.
What this change will allow us to do, in a subsequent CL is to
take the values array of a BlockSparseMatrix and pair it with
a different blocks structure for subset preconditioning.
Change-Id: I1808f12531b586c9ff4d6a70b3d390c7b0d9f441
A Ceres Context holds common global state that can be re-used within
Ceres. The Context current contains a thread pool if compiling with
C++11 threading support. Threads are expensive to create and destroy so
it is good to maintain across multiple Ceres solves.
Tested by compiling with and without TBB support and ran unit tests. Ran
bazel as well.
Change-Id: I82f598dfae642aa0e81a6039dc174608a5e8dbfb
SchurEliminator::Init now takes a bool that tells it whether
it can assume that the diagonal blocks it is inverting can
be assumed to be full rank or not.
This information is then passed onto InvertPSDMatrix.
Change-Id: I26037b6233f2aad5584fed245f631c3959928afe
Eigen upstream was broken a little while ago, and it seemed to be
the case that we needed a fix for using the LLT factorization on
ARM.
This has been fixed and AFAIK there are no stable eigen releases
with this bug in it.
For full gore, see
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=992
In light of the fix, the extra layer of indirection introduced earlier
is not needed and we are reverting to normal programming.
Change-Id: I16929d2145253b38339b573b27b6b8fabd523704
It seems that Eigen's LLT factorization is broken on ARM.
This patch enables the use of LDLT factorization instead of LLT
factorization. The switch is controlled at compile time using a
preprocessor define - CERES_USE_EIGEN_LDLT.
By default we continue to use LLT factorization though.
To make the switching easier without introducing the Cholesky factorization
based inversion and linear system solve routines have been abstracted into
two new functions.
Android.mk has been updated to enable the LDLT factorization, but
the cmake file has not been updated as I will leave it to Alex's
capable hands to do proper detection of ARM as a target platform.
Change-Id: Iffe3abd2ce894de2a388b454df3da909b482d5e5
Since Ceres is moving to using GitHub for issues, and the Google
Code URL in the current copyright header will soon become invalid,
update all the headers.
Change-Id: I1fce70375d1bcf098591f07b4d8f01a5c1e0789c
For historical reasons we had a "using namespace std;" in port.h. This
is generally a bad idea. So removing it and along the way doing a bunch
of cpplint cleanup.
Change-Id: Ia125601a55ae62695e247fb0250df4c6f86c46c6
colPivHouseholderQR -> householderQR
ldlt -> llt.
The resulting performance differences are significant enough
to justify switching.
LAPACK's dgels routine used for solving linear least squares
problems does not use pivoting either.
Similarly, we are not actually using the fact that the matrix
being factorized can be indefinite when using LDLT factorization, so
its not clear that the performance hit is worth it.
These two changes result in Eigen being able to use blocking
algorithms, which for Cholesky factorization, brings the performance
closer to hardware optimized LAPACK. Similarly for dense QR
factorization, on intel there is a 2x speedup.
Change-Id: I4459ee0fc8eb87d58e2b299dfaa9e656d539dc5e
unnecessarily complexity in the structure of linear solvers and preconditioners.
This is the first step towards cleaning up the Preconditioner interface.
2. Minor tweaks and cleanups to the various linear solvers.
Sameer Agarwal