Currently, the logic for exporting symbols is rather complicated: when
tests are enabled internal symbols are exported in addition to the
public symbols. Such logic causes several problems. (1) Test binaries
link against a Ceres build that is different from the final release
since fewer optimizations are applied if more symbols are exported. (2)
Also, some toolchains hide symbols by default breaking the existing
logic eventually causing linker errors.
Since internal symbols are not intended to be used outside of the
project, we can compile them into object files and use exactly the same
binary code both for the final build and the tests without relying on
conditionals.
By default, all symbols are now hidden unless annotated as public.
Internal symbols are explicitly marked as not being exported in case
users chose not to hide symbols by default.
Change-Id: I589dd10be2f6f438508783cf99d141af0120057b
1. Move FunctionSample to its own .h/.cc files.
2. Migrate LineSearchFunction::Evaluate to use FunctionSample
for input and output.
Change-Id: I8bfb97e1900d95a4686c9621dda5b584458b45c0
Changes in Eigen's implementation for FullPivLU significantly
degraded the performance of the line search as reported by Weiguang.
We do not completely understand what is going on, as Eigen's changes
seem sane. So for now, this change explicitly works around the
changes made by Eigen to restore the performance of the line search.
Figuring out the underlying problem and fixing it remains an open
issue.
https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver/issues/248
Change-Id: I9993d73a09dc990ab567ce6bc447f16eac74abec
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
polynomial.cc implements a companion matrix base method for solving
polynomials. This is both expensive and numerically sensitive.
This change adds a quadratic equation solver. Instead of using the
usual quadratic formula, it uses the formula suggested by BKP Horn
for improved numerical stability.
Change-Id: I476933ce010d81db992f1c580d2fb23a4457eb3e
- Decreasing threshold at which L-BFGS Hessian is updated from 1e-10
to 1e-14 results in a very significant improvement in NIST scores
(43 -> 53 for CUBIC).
- Adding comment in FindPolynomialRoots() explaining why behaviour
is correct.
Change-Id: If668e087e7a86d29659aa74e8528b192b604c841
- Increase precision of numeric values output in error messages to
allow for easier debugging.
- Ensure termination after Wolfe search bracketing phase if bracket
width has been shrunk to below tolerance.
- Cleaned up return value for BracketingPhase(), now false iff
optimisation should stop, true otherwise.
- Fix bug whereby we would mark a step size as satisfying the Wolfe
conditions when it did not due to numerical issues in the cost
function.
- Adding explanation of a subtlety in which a zoom could still be
acceptably invoked with bracket_low.f > bracket_high.f.
- Replacing hard check of a pre-condition of ZoomPhase() with a
conditional return if not satisfied to address issue whereby a
bracket could be incorrectly identified due to inconsistent values
& gradients returned from the cost function.
- Adding missing check for step size validity in line search minimizer.
- Adding ToDebugString() for FunctionSample.
Change-Id: Iad98e635749877f80c079ebad126bf022d82232d
1. Add a line search based minimization loop.
2. Currently this loop supports steepest descent and three
kinds of non-linear conjugate gradient algorithms.
3. Update SolverImpl to talk to LineSearchMinimizer.
4. Update IterationCallback to carry information about
line search.
5. Update LineSearch to take the initial point as input,
saving on one function evaluation.
6. Updates to the external API.
Change-Id: I901a0e89fc948451ab34c743e70f3dec57c9405e
1. polynomial_solver* -> polynomial*.
2. Added support for differentiating polynomials.
2. Added support for interpolating polynomials from function
values and gradients.
3. Added support for minimizing polynomials by solving
for the roots of their derivatives in an interval.
4. Added support for finding the minimum of a polynomial
that interpolates function values and gradients in
an interval.
Change-Id: Id7e6764ad4db09c3edd60f1378c7f50f20dd08dc
Alexander Ivanov