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If not, see . */ //various optimization methods #ifndef _OPTIMIZE_H_ #define _OPTIMIZE_H_ #include #include #include #include "vec.h" #include "mat.h" #include "smat.h" #include "bitvector.h" namespace LA { //precision-dependent default steps and thresholds of the optimizers; only double and float are supported (the double values are those used so far) template struct opt_precision; template<> struct opt_precision { static double fd_central_step() {return 1e-6;} //central differences (FiniteDifference, ParameterShift), optimum ~ eps^(1/3) static double fd_forward_step() {return 1e-7;} //forward differences (OptLeastSquares, LM), optimum ~ eps^(1/2) static double g_thr() {return 1e-6;} //gradient convergence static double sy_thr() {return 1e-12;} //curvature condition of the quasi-Newton updates static double sr1_thr() {return 1e-8;} //SR1 skipping rule static double update_thr() {return 1e-8;} //trust-region Hessian update skipping rule static double nm_f_thr() {return 1e-8;} //Nelder-Mead stopping static double nm_x_thr() {return 1e-6;} static double powell_f_thr() {return 1e-10;} //Powell stopping static double powell_x_thr() {return 1e-6;} static double rhoend() {return 1e-6;} //final COBYLA trust radius }; template<> struct opt_precision { static float fd_central_step() {return 5e-3f;} static float fd_forward_step() {return 3e-4f;} static float g_thr() {return 1e-3f;} static float sy_thr() {return 1e-6f;} static float sr1_thr() {return 1e-4f;} static float update_thr() {return 1e-4f;} static float nm_f_thr() {return 1e-5f;} static float nm_x_thr() {return 1e-4f;} static float powell_f_thr() {return 1e-6f;} static float powell_x_thr() {return 1e-4f;} static float rhoend() {return 1e-4f;} }; //base classes with purely virtual functions for multiple inheritance use //optimization problem - provides function and optional gradient, in multiply inherited classess will store auxiliary data for the function template class OptProblem { public: virtual T funcgrad(const NRVec &x, NRVec *grad) const =0; //evaluate function and optionally also gradient at point x (if grad!=NULL) virtual ~OptProblem() {}; }; //optional capabilities of a problem, to be multiply inherited together with OptProblem; methods find them by optcapability() //matrices are allocated by the caller, implementations writing their elements have to call copyonwrite() first //Hessian of f template class OptHessian { public: virtual void hessian(const NRVec &x, NRSMat &h) const =0; //Hessian at x virtual NRVec hessian_times(const NRVec &x, const NRVec &v) const {NRSMat h(x.size()); hessian(x,h); return h*v;} //Hessian-vector product, can be overridden for large problems virtual ~OptHessian() {}; }; //metric tensor of the parameter space: Fubini-Study metric for the quantum natural gradient (Stokes et al., Quantum 4, 269 (2020)), //Fisher information for the natural gradient in machine learning (Amari, Neural Comput. 10, 251 (1998)) template class OptMetric { public: virtual void metric(const NRVec &x, NRSMat &g) const =0; //metric at x virtual ~OptMetric() {}; }; //f as a function of x_i alone is a trigonometric polynomial a_0 + sum_{k=1}^{R_i} (a_k cos(k w_i x_i) + b_k sin(k w_i x_i)), w_i = 2 pi/period_i; //for parameterized quantum circuits with gates exp(-i x_i P/2), P a Pauli string, R_i = 1 and period_i = 2 pi template class OptTrigonometric { public: virtual int degree(const int i) const =0; //R_i, 0 = f is not trigonometric in x_i virtual T period(const int i) const {return 2*M_PI;} virtual ~OptTrigonometric() {}; }; //inequality constraints c_i(x) >= 0, i=0,...,nconstraints()-1; an equality constraint can be given as two inequalities template class OptConstraints { public: virtual int nconstraints() const =0; virtual void constraints(const NRVec &x, NRVec &c) const =0; //c is allocated by the caller with nconstraints() elements virtual ~OptConstraints() {}; }; //least-squares problem f(x) = 1/2 |r(x)|^2 given by the residuals r and optionally their Jacobian template class OptResiduals { public: virtual int nresiduals() const =0; virtual void residuals(const NRVec &x, NRVec &r) const =0; //r is allocated by the caller with nresiduals() elements virtual bool jacobian(const NRVec &x, NRMat &J) const {return false;} //J (nresiduals x n) allocated by the caller; false = not provided, finite differences are used virtual ~OptResiduals() {}; }; //base class for least-squares problems: a user derives from it and writes residuals() (and optionally jacobian()); //funcgrad() provides f = 1/2 |r|^2 and its gradient J^T r, so that all methods can be used, not only LM_Optimizer template class OptLeastSquares : public OptProblem, public OptResiduals { public: T fd_step; //relative step of the forward-difference Jacobian OptLeastSquares(const T h=opt_precision::fd_forward_step()) : fd_step(h) {}; void jacobian_fd(const NRVec &x, const NRVec &r, NRMat &J) const; //Jacobian by forward differences, r = residuals at x virtual T funcgrad(const NRVec &x, NRVec *grad) const; virtual ~OptLeastSquares() {}; }; //problem wrapping another one (e.g. providing gradients); the capabilities of the wrapped problem remain accessible by optcapability() template class OptProblemAdapter : public OptProblem { public: const OptProblem *p; //wrapped problem OptProblemAdapter(const OptProblem *pp) : p(pp) {}; virtual bool transforms_capabilities() const {return false;} //the adapter provides the capabilities of the wrapped problem in a transformed form (e.g. other dimension), not the original ones }; //capability C (OptHessian, OptMetric, ...) of the problem, searched also through adapters; NULL if not available //a transforming adapter provides C only if the wrapped problem does, and never passes on the untransformed one template const C *optcapability(const OptProblem *o) { const C *c=dynamic_cast(o); const OptProblemAdapter *a=dynamic_cast *>(o); if(!a) return c; if(a->transforms_capabilities()) return c && optcapability(a->p) ? c : NULL; return c ? c : optcapability(a->p); } //optimization in the free parameters only, the frozen ones keep their values from the full parameter vector //the Hessian, metric, trigonometric structure and constraints of the wrapped problem are provided for the free parameters //usage: FrozenOptProblem fp(&problem,x,frozen); NRVec xr=fp.reduce(x); optimizer.minimize(&fp,xr); x=fp.expand(xr); template class FrozenOptProblem : public OptProblemAdapter, public OptHessian, public OptMetric, public OptTrigonometric, public OptConstraints { public: NRVec xfull; //full parameter vector, the values of the frozen parameters are taken from it NRVec freeindex; //indices of the free parameters in the full vector FrozenOptProblem(const OptProblem *pp, const NRVec &x, const bitvector &frozen) : OptProblemAdapter(pp), xfull(x) {setfrozen(frozen);}; void setfrozen(const bitvector &frozen); //set of frozen parameters, bit i set = x_i frozen void setfull(const NRVec &x) {xfull=x;} //new values of the frozen parameters NRVec reduce(const NRVec &full) const {return full.subvector(freeindex);} //free parameters of a full vector NRVec expand(const NRVec &reduced) const {NRVec full(xfull); reduced.storesubvector_to(freeindex,full); return full;} //full vector with the frozen values virtual bool transforms_capabilities() const {return true;} virtual T funcgrad(const NRVec &x, NRVec *grad) const; virtual void hessian(const NRVec &x, NRSMat &h) const; virtual NRVec hessian_times(const NRVec &x, const NRVec &v) const; virtual void metric(const NRVec &x, NRSMat &g) const; virtual int degree(const int i) const; virtual T period(const int i) const; virtual int nconstraints() const; virtual void constraints(const NRVec &x, NRVec &c) const; }; //gradient by the general parameter-shift rule (Wierichs et al., Quantum 6, 677 (2022); degree 1: Mitarai et al., Phys. Rev. A 98, 032309 (2018), //Schuld et al., Phys. Rev. A 99, 032331 (2019)), exact from 2R_i evaluations per parameter; parameters of degree 0 by central differences with step h //the wrapped problem has to provide OptTrigonometric template class ParameterShift : public OptProblemAdapter { public: const OptTrigonometric *trig; T h; ParameterShift(const OptProblem *pp, const T hh=opt_precision::fd_central_step()); virtual T funcgrad(const NRVec &x, NRVec *grad) const; }; //gradient by central differences with step h, 2 evaluations per parameter template class FiniteDifference : public OptProblemAdapter { public: T h; FiniteDifference(const OptProblem *pp, const T hh=opt_precision::fd_central_step()) : OptProblemAdapter(pp), h(hh) {}; virtual T funcgrad(const NRVec &x, NRVec *grad) const; }; //base classes for optimization methods template class optstate; //this is a collection of parameters, which can be augmented by method-specific additions, to be used as a base class //methods take their specific parameters via setfrom(), those not provided by the caller keep the defaults from the constructor //each derived class has to override setfrom(), converged() and setreached() if it adds parameters relevant for them template class hyperparameters { public: int my_maxstep; //maximum number of iterations int my_maxfunc; //maximum number of function evaluations, <=0 means unlimited T my_f_thr; //threshhold on function change in a single step T my_x_thr; //threshold on x norm change in a single step int my_saddle_order; //0=minimum, k=saddle point with k negative Hessian eigenvalues (only for methods supporting it) int my_verbose; //0=silent, 1=per-iteration info, 2=more detailed info hyperparameters() : my_maxstep(200), my_maxfunc(0), my_f_thr(0), my_x_thr(0), my_saddle_order(0), my_verbose(1) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {*this=p;} //copy those parameters from p which exist in both classes virtual bool converged(const optstate &s) const {return s.stepdone && s.df &s) {my_maxstep=s.iter; my_maxfunc=s.e.nfunc; my_f_thr=s.df; my_x_thr=s.dx;} //store the values reached in the minimization virtual ~hyperparameters(){}; }; //parameters common to methods using the gradient template class gradient_hyperparameters : public hyperparameters { public: T my_g_thr; //gradient norm convergence threshold gradient_hyperparameters() : my_g_thr(opt_precision::g_thr()) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const gradient_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} virtual bool converged(const optstate &s) const {return (s.gnorm>=0 && s.gnorm::converged(s);} virtual void setreached(const optstate &s) {hyperparameters::setreached(s); my_g_thr=s.gnorm;} }; //parameters of gradient methods using line search template class linesearch_hyperparameters : public gradient_hyperparameters { public: T my_c1; //sufficient decrease (Armijo) parameter of Wolfe conditions, 0 &p) {const linesearch_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else gradient_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; //result of the minimization, converts implicitly to the function value template class optresult { public: T f; //final function value bool converged; optresult(const T ff, const bool c) : f(ff), converged(c) {}; operator T() const {return f;} }; //evaluation of the optimized function, counts the evaluations and keeps the best point found template class optevaluator { public: const OptProblem *o; int maxfunc; //<=0 means unlimited int nfunc; //no. of evaluations done T fbest; //lowest function value found NRVec xbest; //and its point optevaluator(const OptProblem *oo, const int maxf=0) : o(oo), maxfunc(maxf), nfunc(0), fbest(0) {}; T operator()(const NRVec &x, NRVec *grad=NULL) { T f=o->funcgrad(x,grad); if(nfunc++ ==0 || f *res, const NRVec &x, NRVec &r) //residuals at x, returns f = 1/2 |r|^2 { res->residuals(x,r); T f=(r*r)/2; if(nfunc++ ==0 || f0 && nfunc>=maxfunc;} int remaining() const {return maxfunc>0 ? maxfunc-nfunc : std::numeric_limits::max();} }; //bookkeeping of the iterations common to all methods: convergence and limit tests, verbose output, results template class optstate { public: const char *name; //of the method for verbose output const hyperparameters &hp; //parameters used const optevaluator &e; int iter; //no. of iterations done T f; //current function value T gnorm; //current gradient norm, negative if not available T df; //|f change| in the last step T dx; //|x change| in the last step bool stepdone; //df and dx are valid bool converged; optstate(const char *nm, const hyperparameters &h, const optevaluator &ee) : name(nm), hp(h), e(ee), iter(0), f(0), gnorm(-1), df(0), dx(0), stepdone(false), converged(false) {}; bool stop(const T ff, const T gn= -1, const int needed=1); //to be called at the beginning of each iteration, returns true if the iterations should finish; needed = no. of function evaluations of the next iteration void step(const T dff, const T dxx) {df=std::abs(dff); dx=dxx; stepdone=true;} //record a step done optresult finish(hyperparameters *achieved) const; //final report, fills achieved if not NULL }; //base class for optimization methods, virtual functions to allow a pointer to derived class template class Optimizer { public: //par==NULL means default parameters //if achieved!=NULL, the values actually reached are returned there: my_maxstep = no. of iterations done, my_maxfunc = no. of function evaluations done, thresholds = last values of the convergence criteria //(|f change| and |x change| in the last step, 0 if no step was done; |gradient| for gradient methods), the other parameters as they were used virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL) = 0; virtual ~Optimizer() {}; }; //auxiliary routines //line search along direction p satisfying strong Wolfe conditions (cf. Nocedal & Wright, Numerical Optimization, 2nd ed., alg. 3.5 and 3.6) //on input x,f,g at the starting point, on successful output x,f,g at the new point; returns step length or 0 on failure (x,f,g then unchanged) //alpha1 = initial trial step length template T linesearch_wolfe(optevaluator &e, NRVec &x, T &f, NRVec &g, const NRVec &p, const T alpha1, const linesearch_hyperparameters &lp); //derivative-free line minimization of f(x + t*u): bracketing and Brent's method (Brent, Algorithms for Minimization without Derivatives, 1973, chap. 5) //on input x,f at the starting point, on output x,f at the minimum found; returns t, 0 if no decrease was found (x,f then unchanged) //t1 = initial trial step, tol and abstol = relative and absolute tolerance on t, maxiter = max. no. of function evaluations template T linemin_brent(optevaluator &e, NRVec &x, T &f, const NRVec &u, const T t1, const T tol, const T abstol, const int maxiter, const int verbose=0); //search direction of a line-search method, used by the common driver linesearch_minimize() template class linesearch_direction { public: virtual NRVec direction(const NRVec &g) =0; //search direction at the point with gradient g virtual bool update(const NRVec &s, const NRVec &y, const NRVec &p, const NRVec &g) =0; //after the step s=alpha*p with gradient change y and new gradient g; returns false if the update was skipped virtual void reset() =0; //forget the accumulated information virtual bool steepest() const =0; //no information accumulated, direction() gives steepest descent virtual bool indefinite() const {return false;} //a non-descent direction is legitimate (SR1), take steepest descent step without reset virtual bool alpha_from_previous() const {return false;} //initial step length from the previous one (Nocedal & Wright eq. 3.60), otherwise 1 (unit step in x for steepest descent) virtual ~linesearch_direction() {}; }; //common driver of line-search methods template optresult linesearch_minimize(const char *name, linesearch_direction &dir, const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const linesearch_hyperparameters &hp, hyperparameters *achieved); //parameters of first-order methods with a learning rate instead of line search, suitable also for noisy (stochastic) functions and gradients template class firstorder_hyperparameters : public gradient_hyperparameters { public: T my_lr; //learning rate T my_lr_decay; //learning rate in iteration k is lr/(1+lr_decay*k)^lr_power T my_lr_power; T my_weight_decay; //decoupled weight decay x -= lr*weight_decay*x (Loshchilov & Hutter, ICLR 2019) bool my_return_best; //return the point with the lowest function value found instead of the last one; only for (nearly) deterministic f, the lowest of noisy values is biased by the noise bool my_natural; //natural gradient (G + metric_reg I)^-1 g with the metric G of the problem (OptMetric) (Amari, Neural Comput. 10, 251 (1998); Stokes et al., Quantum 4, 269 (2020)); |g| refers then to it T my_metric_reg; //regularization added to the diagonal of the metric firstorder_hyperparameters() : my_lr(1e-3), my_lr_decay(0), my_lr_power(1), my_weight_decay(0), my_return_best(false), my_natural(false), my_metric_reg(1e-3) {this->my_maxstep=1000;}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const firstorder_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else gradient_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; //update rule of a first-order method, used by the common driver firstorder_minimize() template class firstorder_step { public: virtual NRVec step(const NRVec &g, const int k) =0; //direction d of the step x -= lr*d in iteration k=1,2,... with gradient g virtual ~firstorder_step() {}; }; //function value and gradient for firstorder_minimize(), the default is the exact evaluation, derived classes estimate them (SPSA) template class gradient_estimator { public: virtual T operator()(optevaluator &e, const NRVec &x, NRVec &g, const int k) {return e(x,&g);} //returns f at x and the gradient g, k=0,1,... is the iteration virtual int cost() const {return 1;} //no. of function evaluations of one call virtual bool exact() const {return true;} //with estimates no convergence test is done, small gradients or changes can occur by chance virtual T calibrate(optevaluator &e, const NRVec &x, const firstorder_hyperparameters &hp) {return hp.my_lr;} //learning rate to be used virtual ~gradient_estimator() {}; }; //common driver of first-order methods; est==NULL means exact gradients //the learning rate actually used is returned in achieved, if it is of firstorder_hyperparameters type template optresult firstorder_minimize(const char *name, firstorder_step &stepper, const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const firstorder_hyperparameters &hp, hyperparameters *achieved, gradient_estimator *est=NULL); //specific methods //parameters common to quasi-Newton methods template class quasinewton_hyperparameters : public linesearch_hyperparameters { public: T my_sy_thr; //skip the BFGS-type update if s.y <= sy_thr*|s|*|y| (curvature condition violated numerically) quasinewton_hyperparameters() : my_sy_thr(opt_precision::sy_thr()) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const quasinewton_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else linesearch_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; //quasi-Newton methods with line search, differing by the update of the inverse Hessian approximation enum QN_update {QN_BFGS, QN_DFP, QN_SR1}; template class BFGS_hyperparameters : public quasinewton_hyperparameters { public: QN_update my_update; //BFGS, DFP or SR1 (Nocedal & Wright eqs. 6.17, 6.15, 6.25); DFP needs an accurate line search (c2~0.1), otherwise it can stall T my_sr1_thr; //SR1: skip the update if |(s-Hy).y| <= sr1_thr*|s-Hy|*|y| (cf. Nocedal & Wright eq. 6.26) BFGS_hyperparameters() : my_update(QN_BFGS), my_sr1_thr(opt_precision::sr1_thr()) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const BFGS_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else quasinewton_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class BFGS_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~BFGS_Optimizer() {}; }; //limited-memory BFGS (Nocedal & Wright chap. 7.2), for large problems template class LBFGS_hyperparameters : public quasinewton_hyperparameters { public: int my_memory; //no. of stored pairs of steps and gradient changes LBFGS_hyperparameters() : my_memory(10) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const LBFGS_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else quasinewton_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class LBFGS_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~LBFGS_Optimizer() {}; }; //geometry DIIS (Csaszar & Pulay, J. Mol. Struct. 114, 31 (1984)) with a quasi-Newton Hessian (Farkas & Schlegel, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 4, 11 (2002)) //error vectors are the quasi-Newton steps e_i = -H g_i, the new point is sum_i c_i (x_i+e_i) minimizing |sum_i c_i e_i| with sum_i c_i = 1 //one function evaluation per iteration; if the DIIS step goes uphill, is longer than maxsteplength or does not decrease f, //the DIIS history is restarted and a line search along the quasi-Newton step is done template class GDIIS_hyperparameters : public BFGS_hyperparameters { public: int my_diis_dim; //no. of stored points T my_diis_eps; //regularization added to the diagonal of the DIIS matrix GDIIS_hyperparameters() : my_diis_dim(5), my_diis_eps(0) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const GDIIS_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else BFGS_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class GDIIS_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~GDIIS_Optimizer() {}; }; //nonlinear conjugate gradient methods (Nocedal & Wright chap. 5.2; Hager & Zhang, SIAM J. Optim. 16, 170 (2005)) //differing by the formula for beta in p_{k+1} = -g_{k+1} + beta p_k; PR and HS are used in the nonnegative variants PR+ and HS+ enum CG_beta {CG_FR, CG_PR, CG_HS, CG_DY, CG_HZ}; template class CG_hyperparameters : public linesearch_hyperparameters { public: CG_beta my_beta; //Fletcher-Reeves, Polak-Ribiere+, Hestenes-Stiefel+, Dai-Yuan, Hager-Zhang int my_restart; //restart with steepest descent every my_restart iterations, <=0 means the problem dimension T my_powell_thr; //restart if |g_{k+1}.g_k| >= powell_thr*|g_{k+1}|^2 (Nocedal & Wright eq. 5.52), <=0 disables CG_hyperparameters() : my_beta(CG_PR), my_restart(0), my_powell_thr(0.2) {this->my_c2=0.1;}; //CG needs a more accurate line search virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const CG_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else linesearch_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class CG_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~CG_Optimizer() {}; }; //trust-region methods: quadratic model f + g.p + 1/2 p.B.p minimized (or for saddle points stationary) within |p| <= delta //(Nocedal & Wright chap. 4; Conn, Gould & Toint, Trust-Region Methods, SIAM 2000) //Hessian B of the model: exact (OptHessian of the problem) or updated by BFGS, SR1, Powell-symmetric-Broyden or Bofill's formula //(Bofill, J. Comput. Chem. 15, 1 (1994)); TR_AUTO = exact if available, otherwise BFGS for minima and Bofill for saddle points; //between exact Hessians (my_hessian_recompute > 1) the updates are SR1 for minima (the exact Hessian may be indefinite) and Bofill for saddle points enum TR_hessian {TR_AUTO, TR_EXACT, TR_BFGS, TR_SR1, TR_PSB, TR_BOFILL}; //update of a Hessian approximation B (not of its inverse) by the step s and the gradient change y; returns false if the update was skipped template bool hessian_update(NRSMat &B, const NRVec &s, const NRVec &y, const TR_hessian type, const T thr); template class trustregion_hyperparameters : public gradient_hyperparameters { public: T my_delta0; //initial trust region radius T my_deltamax; //maximal trust region radius T my_eta; //a step of a minimization is accepted if (actual reduction)/(predicted reduction) > eta TR_hessian my_hessian; int my_hessian_recompute; //exact Hessian computed every k-th iteration and updated in between; 1 = always exact T my_update_thr; //threshold for skipping the Hessian updates (curvature condition of BFGS, denominator of SR1) trustregion_hyperparameters() : my_delta0(1), my_deltamax(1e3), my_eta(1e-4), my_hessian(TR_AUTO), my_hessian_recompute(1), my_update_thr(opt_precision::update_thr()) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const trustregion_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else gradient_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; //step of a trust-region method, used by the common driver trustregion_minimize() template class trustregion_step { public: virtual NRVec step(const NRVec &g, const NRSMat &B, const T delta) =0; //step within the trust region virtual bool saddle() const {return false;} //searching for a saddle point: steps are always taken, the radius is controlled by the quality of the model virtual ~trustregion_step() {}; }; //common driver of trust-region methods; achieved->my_saddle_order returns the number of negative eigenvalues of the Hessian at the result //(of the exact one if the problem provides it, otherwise of the approximation) template optresult trustregion_minimize(const char *name, trustregion_step &stepper, const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const trustregion_hyperparameters &hp, hyperparameters *achieved); //trust-region Newton or quasi-Newton minimization; subproblem solved exactly in the eigenbasis of B (More & Sorensen, SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput. 4, 553 (1983)), //or approximately by truncated conjugate gradients (Steihaug, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 20, 626 (1983)), which avoids the O(n^3) diagonalization for large n enum TR_subproblem {TR_EIGEN, TR_STEIHAUG}; template class TrustRegion_hyperparameters : public trustregion_hyperparameters { public: TR_subproblem my_subproblem; int my_maxcg; //max. no. of conjugate gradient iterations of Steihaug's method, <=0 means the dimension TrustRegion_hyperparameters() : my_subproblem(TR_EIGEN), my_maxcg(0) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const TrustRegion_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else trustregion_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class TrustRegion_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~TrustRegion_Optimizer() {}; }; //partitioned rational function optimization (Banerjee, Adams, Simons & Shepard, J. Phys. Chem. 89, 52 (1985); Baker, J. Comput. Chem. 7, 385 (1986)): //search for a stationary point with my_saddle_order negative Hessian eigenvalues, maximizing along the eigenvectors of the lowest ones, //minimizing along the others; saddle_order 0 gives RFO minimization template class PRFO_hyperparameters : public trustregion_hyperparameters { public: PRFO_hyperparameters() {this->my_delta0=0.3;}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const PRFO_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else trustregion_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class PRFO_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~PRFO_Optimizer() {}; }; //Levenberg-Marquardt method for least-squares problems (OptResiduals): step from (J^T J + mu D) h = -J^T r, D = I or diag(J^T J) (Marquardt scaling), //damping mu updated by the gain ratio (Madsen, Nielsen & Tingleff, Methods for Non-Linear Least Squares Problems, DTU 2004, alg. 3.16); //Jacobian from the problem or by forward differences (counted as function evaluations); convergence by |J^T r| < g_thr, by f and x changes, //or when the step becomes negligible at machine precision template class LM_hyperparameters : public gradient_hyperparameters { public: T my_tau; //initial damping mu = tau*max diag(J^T J) bool my_scaling; //Marquardt scaling D = diag(J^T J) T my_fd_step; //relative step of the forward-difference Jacobian LM_hyperparameters() : my_tau(1e-3), my_scaling(false), my_fd_step(opt_precision::fd_forward_step()) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const LM_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else gradient_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class LM_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~LM_Optimizer() {}; }; //Nelder-Mead downhill simplex (Lagarias et al., SIAM J. Optim. 9, 112 (1998)), derivative-free //convergence: f_thr is used for the spread of function values in the simplex, x_thr for its diameter, both have to be satisfied template class NelderMead_hyperparameters : public hyperparameters { public: T my_initstep; //edge length of the initial simplex x0 + initstep*e_i bool my_adaptive; //dimension-dependent coefficients (Gao & Han, Comput. Optim. Appl. 51, 259 (2012)), otherwise the following ones T my_alpha; //reflection T my_gamma; //expansion T my_rho; //contraction T my_sigma; //shrink NelderMead_hyperparameters() : my_initstep(0.1), my_adaptive(true), my_alpha(1), my_gamma(2), my_rho(0.5), my_sigma(0.5) {this->my_maxstep=5000; this->my_f_thr=opt_precision::nm_f_thr(); this->my_x_thr=opt_precision::nm_x_thr();}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const NelderMead_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class NelderMead_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~NelderMead_Optimizer() {}; }; //Powell's conjugate direction method (Powell, Comput. J. 7, 155 (1964)), derivative-free //convergence: f_thr and x_thr are used for the change of f and x in one sweep over all directions, both have to be satisfied template class Powell_hyperparameters : public hyperparameters { public: T my_initstep; //initial trial step of the line minimizations T my_linmin_tol; //relative tolerance of the line minimizations, the absolute one is 0.01*x_thr int my_maxlinemin; //max. no. of function evaluations in one line minimization Powell_hyperparameters() : my_initstep(0.1), my_linmin_tol(1e-4), my_maxlinemin(50) {this->my_maxstep=1000; this->my_f_thr=opt_precision::powell_f_thr(); this->my_x_thr=opt_precision::powell_x_thr();}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const Powell_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class Powell_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~Powell_Optimizer() {}; }; //COBYLA, constrained optimization by linear approximations (Powell, in Advances in Optimization and Numerical Analysis, eds. Gomez & Hennart, //Kluwer 1994, p. 51; Powell, Acta Numerica 7, 287 (1998)), derivative-free; constraints from OptConstraints, without them unconstrained //linear models of f and the constraints are interpolated on a simplex of n+1 points, the trust region radius rho decreases from rhobeg to rhoend; //the iterations finish when rho reaches rhoend and the trust region step does not improve the point, or by the general criterion //with f_thr and x_thr, which are used for the change of f in an iteration and for rho (both 0 by default) template class Cobyla_hyperparameters : public hyperparameters { public: T my_rhobeg; //initial trust region radius, about one tenth of the expected change of x T my_rhoend; //final trust region radius, the accuracy of x bool my_flexible_radius; //trust region radius delta >= rho revised by the reduction ratio and rho reduced by the rules of NEWUOA //(Powell, Report DAMTP 2004/NA08, eqs. (7.1), (7.6), (6.16)), so that delta can also increase; false = Powell's original COBYLA with delta = rho Cobyla_hyperparameters() : my_rhobeg(0.5), my_rhoend(opt_precision::rhoend()), my_flexible_radius(true) {this->my_maxstep=100000;}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const Cobyla_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class Cobyla_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~Cobyla_Optimizer() {}; }; //Rotosolve: sweeps of exact minimizations along single parameters in which f is trigonometric (OptTrigonometric) //(Ostaszewski et al., Quantum 5, 391 (2021); Nakanishi et al., Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043158 (2020); degree > 1: Wierichs et al., Quantum 6, 677 (2022)); //f along x_i is reconstructed from 2R_i+1 equidistant samples over its period (2R_i new evaluations) and minimized without further evaluations; //parameters of degree 0, or all if the problem is not trigonometric, are minimized by line minimization as in Powell's method (whose parameters are used) template class Rotosolve_hyperparameters : public Powell_hyperparameters { public: bool my_reevaluate; //evaluate f at the new point instead of taking the value of the reconstruction (for noisy f or doubtful degrees) Rotosolve_hyperparameters() : my_reevaluate(false) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const Rotosolve_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else Powell_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class Rotosolve_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~Rotosolve_Optimizer() {}; }; //stochastic gradient descent with momentum v = momentum*v + g, step d = v or d = g + momentum*v (Nesterov) (Sutskever et al., ICML 2013) template class SGD_hyperparameters : public firstorder_hyperparameters { public: T my_momentum; bool my_nesterov; SGD_hyperparameters() : my_momentum(0.9), my_nesterov(false) {this->my_lr=1e-2;}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const SGD_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else firstorder_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class SGD_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~SGD_Optimizer() {}; }; //quantum natural gradient x -= lr (G + metric_reg I)^-1 g (Stokes et al., Quantum 4, 269 (2020)): SGD without momentum with the natural gradient; //the problem has to provide the metric (OptMetric), the gradient can come e.g. from ParameterShift; momentum, Adam or SPSA can be combined with the natural gradient by setting my_natural //natural steps are longer than gradient steps with the same lr (metric eigenvalues ~1/4 or smaller): lr up to ~0.1, or a larger metric_reg template class QNG_hyperparameters : public SGD_hyperparameters { public: QNG_hyperparameters() {this->my_momentum=0; this->my_natural=true; this->my_lr=0.05;}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const QNG_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else SGD_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class QNG_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~QNG_Optimizer() {}; }; //Adam (Kingma & Ba, ICLR 2015), with weight_decay>0 AdamW, optionally AMSGrad (Reddi et al., ICLR 2018); beta1=0 gives RMSprop template class Adam_hyperparameters : public firstorder_hyperparameters { public: T my_beta1; //decay rate of the first moment estimate T my_beta2; //decay rate of the second moment estimate T my_eps; //regularization of the division by the second moment bool my_amsgrad; //use the maximum of the past second moments Adam_hyperparameters() : my_beta1(0.9), my_beta2(0.999), my_eps(1e-8), my_amsgrad(false) {}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const Adam_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else firstorder_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class Adam_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~Adam_Optimizer() {}; }; //simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (Spall, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control 37, 332 (1992); IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst. 34, 817 (1998)) //derivative-free, 2 function evaluations per gradient estimate independently of the dimension, robust to noise (VQE) //gain sequences: a_k = lr/(1+lr_decay*k)^lr_power, i.e. Spall's a/(k+1+A)^alpha with lr=a/(1+A)^alpha, lr_decay=1/(1+A), lr_power=alpha; c_k = c/(k+1)^gamma //the gradient and f are estimates, therefore no convergence test is done and the iterations run until maxstep or maxfunc //the first estimate at the starting point is always done, even if maxfunc is smaller than its 2*resamplings evaluations template class SPSA_hyperparameters : public firstorder_hyperparameters { public: T my_c; //perturbation size, of the order of the noise of f T my_gamma; //decay exponent of the perturbation size int my_resamplings; //no. of gradient estimates averaged in one iteration int my_calibrate; //no. of gradient estimates at the starting point for the calibration of lr, 0 = no calibration T my_target_step; //calibration: lr is set so that the first step has this length on average SPSA_hyperparameters() : my_c(0.1), my_gamma(0.101), my_resamplings(1), my_calibrate(20), my_target_step(0.1) {this->my_lr_decay=0.01; this->my_lr_power=0.602; this->my_g_thr=0;}; virtual void setfrom(const hyperparameters &p) {const SPSA_hyperparameters *q=dynamic_cast(&p); if(q) *this= *q; else firstorder_hyperparameters::setfrom(p);} }; template class SPSA_Optimizer : public Optimizer { public: virtual optresult minimize(const OptProblem *o, NRVec &x, const hyperparameters *par=NULL, hyperparameters *achieved=NULL); virtual ~SPSA_Optimizer() {}; }; }//namespace #endif /* _OPTIMIZE_H_ */