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Sergiu Deitsch f90833f5fa Simplify symbol export
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
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// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
// Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
// http://ceres-solver.org/
//
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//
// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
//
// Generic loop for line search based optimization algorithms.
//
// This is primarily inpsired by the minFunc packaged written by Mark
// Schmidt.
//
// http://www.di.ens.fr/~mschmidt/Software/minFunc.html
//
// For details on the theory and implementation see "Numerical
// Optimization" by Nocedal & Wright.
#include "ceres/line_search_minimizer.h"
#include <algorithm>
#include <cmath>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <memory>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include "Eigen/Dense"
#include "ceres/array_utils.h"
#include "ceres/evaluator.h"
#include "ceres/internal/eigen.h"
#include "ceres/internal/export.h"
#include "ceres/line_search.h"
#include "ceres/line_search_direction.h"
#include "ceres/stringprintf.h"
#include "ceres/types.h"
#include "ceres/wall_time.h"
#include "glog/logging.h"
namespace ceres {
namespace internal {
namespace {
bool EvaluateGradientNorms(Evaluator* evaluator,
const Vector& x,
LineSearchMinimizer::State* state,
std::string* message) {
Vector negative_gradient = -state->gradient;
Vector projected_gradient_step(x.size());
if (!evaluator->Plus(
x.data(), negative_gradient.data(), projected_gradient_step.data())) {
*message = "projected_gradient_step = Plus(x, -gradient) failed.";
return false;
}
state->gradient_squared_norm = (x - projected_gradient_step).squaredNorm();
state->gradient_max_norm =
(x - projected_gradient_step).lpNorm<Eigen::Infinity>();
return true;
}
} // namespace
void LineSearchMinimizer::Minimize(const Minimizer::Options& options,
double* parameters,
Solver::Summary* summary) {
const bool is_not_silent = !options.is_silent;
double start_time = WallTimeInSeconds();
double iteration_start_time = start_time;
CHECK(options.evaluator != nullptr);
Evaluator* evaluator = options.evaluator.get();
const int num_parameters = evaluator->NumParameters();
const int num_effective_parameters = evaluator->NumEffectiveParameters();
summary->termination_type = NO_CONVERGENCE;
summary->num_successful_steps = 0;
summary->num_unsuccessful_steps = 0;
VectorRef x(parameters, num_parameters);
State current_state(num_parameters, num_effective_parameters);
State previous_state(num_parameters, num_effective_parameters);
IterationSummary iteration_summary;
iteration_summary.iteration = 0;
iteration_summary.step_is_valid = false;
iteration_summary.step_is_successful = false;
iteration_summary.cost_change = 0.0;
iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm = 0.0;
iteration_summary.gradient_norm = 0.0;
iteration_summary.step_norm = 0.0;
iteration_summary.linear_solver_iterations = 0;
iteration_summary.step_solver_time_in_seconds = 0;
// Do initial cost and gradient evaluation.
if (!evaluator->Evaluate(x.data(),
&(current_state.cost),
nullptr,
current_state.gradient.data(),
nullptr)) {
summary->termination_type = FAILURE;
summary->message = "Initial cost and jacobian evaluation failed.";
if (is_not_silent) {
LOG(WARNING) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
return;
}
if (!EvaluateGradientNorms(evaluator, x, &current_state, &summary->message)) {
summary->termination_type = FAILURE;
summary->message =
"Initial cost and jacobian evaluation failed. More details: " +
summary->message;
if (is_not_silent) {
LOG(WARNING) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
return;
}
summary->initial_cost = current_state.cost + summary->fixed_cost;
iteration_summary.cost = current_state.cost + summary->fixed_cost;
iteration_summary.gradient_norm = sqrt(current_state.gradient_squared_norm);
iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm = current_state.gradient_max_norm;
if (iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm <= options.gradient_tolerance) {
summary->message =
StringPrintf("Gradient tolerance reached. Gradient max norm: %e <= %e",
iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm,
options.gradient_tolerance);
summary->termination_type = CONVERGENCE;
if (is_not_silent) {
VLOG(1) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
return;
}
iteration_summary.iteration_time_in_seconds =
WallTimeInSeconds() - iteration_start_time;
iteration_summary.cumulative_time_in_seconds =
WallTimeInSeconds() - start_time + summary->preprocessor_time_in_seconds;
summary->iterations.push_back(iteration_summary);
LineSearchDirection::Options line_search_direction_options;
line_search_direction_options.num_parameters = num_effective_parameters;
line_search_direction_options.type = options.line_search_direction_type;
line_search_direction_options.nonlinear_conjugate_gradient_type =
options.nonlinear_conjugate_gradient_type;
line_search_direction_options.max_lbfgs_rank = options.max_lbfgs_rank;
line_search_direction_options.use_approximate_eigenvalue_bfgs_scaling =
options.use_approximate_eigenvalue_bfgs_scaling;
std::unique_ptr<LineSearchDirection> line_search_direction =
LineSearchDirection::Create(line_search_direction_options);
LineSearchFunction line_search_function(evaluator);
LineSearch::Options line_search_options;
line_search_options.interpolation_type =
options.line_search_interpolation_type;
line_search_options.min_step_size = options.min_line_search_step_size;
line_search_options.sufficient_decrease =
options.line_search_sufficient_function_decrease;
line_search_options.max_step_contraction =
options.max_line_search_step_contraction;
line_search_options.min_step_contraction =
options.min_line_search_step_contraction;
line_search_options.max_num_iterations =
options.max_num_line_search_step_size_iterations;
line_search_options.sufficient_curvature_decrease =
options.line_search_sufficient_curvature_decrease;
line_search_options.max_step_expansion =
options.max_line_search_step_expansion;
line_search_options.is_silent = options.is_silent;
line_search_options.function = &line_search_function;
std::unique_ptr<LineSearch> line_search(LineSearch::Create(
options.line_search_type, line_search_options, &summary->message));
if (line_search.get() == nullptr) {
summary->termination_type = FAILURE;
if (is_not_silent) {
LOG(ERROR) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
return;
}
LineSearch::Summary line_search_summary;
int num_line_search_direction_restarts = 0;
while (true) {
if (!RunCallbacks(options, iteration_summary, summary)) {
break;
}
iteration_start_time = WallTimeInSeconds();
if (iteration_summary.iteration >= options.max_num_iterations) {
summary->message = "Maximum number of iterations reached.";
summary->termination_type = NO_CONVERGENCE;
if (is_not_silent) {
VLOG(1) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
break;
}
const double total_solver_time = iteration_start_time - start_time +
summary->preprocessor_time_in_seconds;
if (total_solver_time >= options.max_solver_time_in_seconds) {
summary->message = "Maximum solver time reached.";
summary->termination_type = NO_CONVERGENCE;
if (is_not_silent) {
VLOG(1) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
break;
}
iteration_summary = IterationSummary();
iteration_summary.iteration = summary->iterations.back().iteration + 1;
iteration_summary.step_is_valid = false;
iteration_summary.step_is_successful = false;
bool line_search_status = true;
if (iteration_summary.iteration == 1) {
current_state.search_direction = -current_state.gradient;
} else {
line_search_status = line_search_direction->NextDirection(
previous_state, current_state, &current_state.search_direction);
}
if (!line_search_status &&
num_line_search_direction_restarts >=
options.max_num_line_search_direction_restarts) {
// Line search direction failed to generate a new direction, and we
// have already reached our specified maximum number of restarts,
// terminate optimization.
summary->message = StringPrintf(
"Line search direction failure: specified "
"max_num_line_search_direction_restarts: %d reached.",
options.max_num_line_search_direction_restarts);
summary->termination_type = FAILURE;
if (is_not_silent) {
LOG(WARNING) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
break;
} else if (!line_search_status) {
// Restart line search direction with gradient descent on first iteration
// as we have not yet reached our maximum number of restarts.
CHECK_LT(num_line_search_direction_restarts,
options.max_num_line_search_direction_restarts);
++num_line_search_direction_restarts;
if (is_not_silent) {
LOG(WARNING) << "Line search direction algorithm: "
<< LineSearchDirectionTypeToString(
options.line_search_direction_type)
<< ", failed to produce a valid new direction at "
<< "iteration: " << iteration_summary.iteration
<< ". Restarting, number of restarts: "
<< num_line_search_direction_restarts << " / "
<< options.max_num_line_search_direction_restarts
<< " [max].";
}
line_search_direction =
LineSearchDirection::Create(line_search_direction_options);
current_state.search_direction = -current_state.gradient;
}
line_search_function.Init(x, current_state.search_direction);
current_state.directional_derivative =
current_state.gradient.dot(current_state.search_direction);
// TODO(sameeragarwal): Refactor this into its own object and add
// explanations for the various choices.
//
// Note that we use !line_search_status to ensure that we treat cases when
// we restarted the line search direction equivalently to the first
// iteration.
const double initial_step_size =
(iteration_summary.iteration == 1 || !line_search_status)
? std::min(1.0, 1.0 / current_state.gradient_max_norm)
: std::min(1.0,
2.0 * (current_state.cost - previous_state.cost) /
current_state.directional_derivative);
// By definition, we should only ever go forwards along the specified search
// direction in a line search, most likely cause for this being violated
// would be a numerical failure in the line search direction calculation.
if (initial_step_size < 0.0) {
summary->message = StringPrintf(
"Numerical failure in line search, initial_step_size is "
"negative: %.5e, directional_derivative: %.5e, "
"(current_cost - previous_cost): %.5e",
initial_step_size,
current_state.directional_derivative,
(current_state.cost - previous_state.cost));
summary->termination_type = FAILURE;
if (is_not_silent) {
LOG(WARNING) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
break;
}
line_search->Search(initial_step_size,
current_state.cost,
current_state.directional_derivative,
&line_search_summary);
if (!line_search_summary.success) {
summary->message = StringPrintf(
"Numerical failure in line search, failed to find "
"a valid step size, (did not run out of iterations) "
"using initial_step_size: %.5e, initial_cost: %.5e, "
"initial_gradient: %.5e.",
initial_step_size,
current_state.cost,
current_state.directional_derivative);
if (is_not_silent) {
LOG(WARNING) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
summary->termination_type = FAILURE;
break;
}
const FunctionSample& optimal_point = line_search_summary.optimal_point;
CHECK(optimal_point.vector_x_is_valid)
<< "Congratulations, you found a bug in Ceres. Please report it.";
current_state.step_size = optimal_point.x;
previous_state = current_state;
iteration_summary.step_solver_time_in_seconds =
WallTimeInSeconds() - iteration_start_time;
if (optimal_point.vector_gradient_is_valid) {
current_state.cost = optimal_point.value;
current_state.gradient = optimal_point.vector_gradient;
} else {
Evaluator::EvaluateOptions evaluate_options;
evaluate_options.new_evaluation_point = false;
if (!evaluator->Evaluate(evaluate_options,
optimal_point.vector_x.data(),
&(current_state.cost),
nullptr,
current_state.gradient.data(),
nullptr)) {
summary->termination_type = FAILURE;
summary->message = "Cost and jacobian evaluation failed.";
if (is_not_silent) {
LOG(WARNING) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
return;
}
}
if (!EvaluateGradientNorms(evaluator,
optimal_point.vector_x,
&current_state,
&summary->message)) {
summary->termination_type = FAILURE;
summary->message =
"Step failed to evaluate. This should not happen as the step was "
"valid when it was selected by the line search. More details: " +
summary->message;
if (is_not_silent) {
LOG(WARNING) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
break;
}
// Compute the norm of the step in the ambient space.
iteration_summary.step_norm = (optimal_point.vector_x - x).norm();
const double x_norm = x.norm();
x = optimal_point.vector_x;
iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm = current_state.gradient_max_norm;
iteration_summary.gradient_norm = sqrt(current_state.gradient_squared_norm);
iteration_summary.cost_change = previous_state.cost - current_state.cost;
iteration_summary.cost = current_state.cost + summary->fixed_cost;
iteration_summary.step_is_valid = true;
iteration_summary.step_is_successful = true;
iteration_summary.step_size = current_state.step_size;
iteration_summary.line_search_function_evaluations =
line_search_summary.num_function_evaluations;
iteration_summary.line_search_gradient_evaluations =
line_search_summary.num_gradient_evaluations;
iteration_summary.line_search_iterations =
line_search_summary.num_iterations;
iteration_summary.iteration_time_in_seconds =
WallTimeInSeconds() - iteration_start_time;
iteration_summary.cumulative_time_in_seconds =
WallTimeInSeconds() - start_time +
summary->preprocessor_time_in_seconds;
summary->iterations.push_back(iteration_summary);
// Iterations inside the line search algorithm are considered
// 'steps' in the broader context, to distinguish these inner
// iterations from from the outer iterations of the line search
// minimizer. The number of line search steps is the total number
// of inner line search iterations (or steps) across the entire
// minimization.
summary->num_line_search_steps += line_search_summary.num_iterations;
summary->line_search_cost_evaluation_time_in_seconds +=
line_search_summary.cost_evaluation_time_in_seconds;
summary->line_search_gradient_evaluation_time_in_seconds +=
line_search_summary.gradient_evaluation_time_in_seconds;
summary->line_search_polynomial_minimization_time_in_seconds +=
line_search_summary.polynomial_minimization_time_in_seconds;
summary->line_search_total_time_in_seconds +=
line_search_summary.total_time_in_seconds;
++summary->num_successful_steps;
const double step_size_tolerance =
options.parameter_tolerance * (x_norm + options.parameter_tolerance);
if (iteration_summary.step_norm <= step_size_tolerance) {
summary->message = StringPrintf(
"Parameter tolerance reached. "
"Relative step_norm: %e <= %e.",
(iteration_summary.step_norm /
(x_norm + options.parameter_tolerance)),
options.parameter_tolerance);
summary->termination_type = CONVERGENCE;
if (is_not_silent) {
VLOG(1) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
return;
}
if (iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm <= options.gradient_tolerance) {
summary->message = StringPrintf(
"Gradient tolerance reached. "
"Gradient max norm: %e <= %e",
iteration_summary.gradient_max_norm,
options.gradient_tolerance);
summary->termination_type = CONVERGENCE;
if (is_not_silent) {
VLOG(1) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
break;
}
const double absolute_function_tolerance =
options.function_tolerance * std::abs(previous_state.cost);
if (std::abs(iteration_summary.cost_change) <=
absolute_function_tolerance) {
summary->message = StringPrintf(
"Function tolerance reached. "
"|cost_change|/cost: %e <= %e",
std::abs(iteration_summary.cost_change) / previous_state.cost,
options.function_tolerance);
summary->termination_type = CONVERGENCE;
if (is_not_silent) {
VLOG(1) << "Terminating: " << summary->message;
}
break;
}
}
}
} // namespace internal
} // namespace ceres