kmin.c

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   Copyright (c) 2008, by Heng Li <lh3@live.co.uk>

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/* Hooke-Jeeves algorithm for nonlinear minimization
   Heng Li, Februay 3, 2008
 
   Based on the pseudocodes by Bell and Pike (CACM 9(9):684-685), and
   the revision by Tomlin and Smith (CACM 12(11):637-638). Both of the
   papers are comments on Kaupe's Algorithm 178 "Direct Search" (ACM
   6(6):313-314). The original algorithm was designed by Hooke and
   Jeeves (ACM 8:212-229). This program is further revised according to
   Johnson's implementation at Netlib (opt/hooke.c).
 
   Hooke-Jeeves algorithm is very simple and it works quite well on a
   few examples. However, it might fail to converge due to its heuristic
   nature. A possible improvement, as is suggested by Johnson, may be to
   choose a small r at the beginning to quickly approach to the minimum
   and a large r at later step to hit the minimum.
 */

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <math.h>
#include "kmin.h"

static double __kmin_hj_aux(kmin_f func, int n, double *x1, void *data, double fx1, double *dx, int *n_calls)
{
	int k, j = *n_calls;
	double ftmp;
	for (k = 0; k != n; ++k) {
		x1[k] += dx[k];
		ftmp = func(n, x1, data); ++j;
		if (ftmp < fx1) fx1 = ftmp;
		else { /* search the opposite direction */
			dx[k] = 0.0 - dx[k];
			x1[k] += dx[k] + dx[k];
			ftmp = func(n, x1, data); ++j;
			if (ftmp < fx1) fx1 = ftmp;
			else x1[k] -= dx[k]; /* back to the original x[k] */
		}
	}
	*n_calls = j;
	return fx1; /* here: fx1=f(n,x1) */
}

double kmin_hj(kmin_f func, int n, double *x, void *data, double r, double eps, int max_calls)
{
	double fx, fx1, *x1, *dx, radius;
	int k, n_calls = 0;
	x1 = (double*)calloc(n, sizeof(double));
	dx = (double*)calloc(n, sizeof(double));
	for (k = 0; k != n; ++k) { /* initial directions, based on MGJ */
		dx[k] = fabs(x[k]) * r;
		if (dx[k] == 0) dx[k] = r;
	}
	radius = r;
	fx1 = fx = func(n, x, data); ++n_calls;
	for (;;) {
		memcpy(x1, x, n * sizeof(double)); /* x1 = x */
		fx1 = __kmin_hj_aux(func, n, x1, data, fx, dx, &n_calls);
		while (fx1 < fx) {
			for (k = 0; k != n; ++k) {
				double t = x[k];
				dx[k] = x1[k] > x[k]? fabs(dx[k]) : 0.0 - fabs(dx[k]);
				x[k] = x1[k];
				x1[k] = x1[k] + x1[k] - t;
			}
			fx = fx1;
			if (n_calls >= max_calls) break;
			fx1 = func(n, x1, data); ++n_calls;
			fx1 = __kmin_hj_aux(func, n, x1, data, fx1, dx, &n_calls);
			if (fx1 >= fx) break;
			for (k = 0; k != n; ++k)
				if (fabs(x1[k] - x[k]) > .5 * fabs(dx[k])) break;
			if (k == n) break;
		}
		if (radius >= eps) {
			if (n_calls >= max_calls) break;
			radius *= r;
			for (k = 0; k != n; ++k) dx[k] *= r;
		} else break; /* converge */
	}
	free(x1); free(dx);
	return fx1;
}