Sameer Agarwal 36c73c26bb Stablize the schur ordering algorithm. ...

The schur ordering is used to construct an elimination
ordering for Schur type solvers when the user has not
supplied an elimination ordering.

The ordering algorithm does an ordered traversal of the
sparsity graph of the Hessian. The order in which this is
done used to be determined by the degree of the parameter
blocks with ties broken arbitrarily using the memory address
of the parameter blocks.

This introduced non-determinism in the solver, causing subtle
numerical differences in the value of the solution everytime
the solve was run.

This change introduces ComputeStableSchurOrdering which utilizes
a new function StableIndependentSetOrdering. The latter takes
as input an ordering of the vertices of the graph which is used
to break ties when ordering the vertice by degree. The former
constructs such an ordering by using the order in which the
parameter blocks were added to the Problem.

In this way, as long as the construction of the problem is
deterministic, the schur ordering will always be deterministic
too.

I have chosen not to delete the existing unstable implementations
of these functions as they are used by the inner iteration
minimizer.

Sometime in the near future I will clean up some of the duplicate
code and see if we can move all the code to using a stable ordering.

Change-Id: I8fbfa240d7307a2c3fe9b135f6968aa410d78780

2013-05-17 22:52:21 -07:00

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Stablize the schur ordering algorithm.

2013-05-17 22:52:21 -07:00