source: src/main/java/agents/org/apache/commons/math/optimization/MultiStartMultivariateRealOptimizer.java

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package agents.org.apache.commons.math.optimization;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;

import agents.org.apache.commons.math.FunctionEvaluationException;
import agents.org.apache.commons.math.MathRuntimeException;
import agents.org.apache.commons.math.analysis.MultivariateRealFunction;
import agents.org.apache.commons.math.exception.util.LocalizedFormats;
import agents.org.apache.commons.math.random.RandomVectorGenerator;

/**
 * Special implementation of the {@link MultivariateRealOptimizer} interface adding
 * multi-start features to an existing optimizer.
 * <p>
 * This class wraps a classical optimizer to use it several times in
 * turn with different starting points in order to avoid being trapped
 * into a local extremum when looking for a global one.
 * </p>
 * @version $Revision: 1073158 $ $Date: 2011-02-21 22:46:52 +0100 (lun. 21 févr. 2011) $
 * @since 2.0
 */
public class MultiStartMultivariateRealOptimizer
    implements MultivariateRealOptimizer {

    /** Underlying classical optimizer. */
    private final MultivariateRealOptimizer optimizer;

    /** Maximal number of iterations allowed. */
    private int maxIterations;

    /** Maximal number of evaluations allowed. */
    private int maxEvaluations;

    /** Number of iterations already performed for all starts. */
    private int totalIterations;

    /** Number of evaluations already performed for all starts. */
    private int totalEvaluations;

    /** Number of starts to go. */
    private int starts;

    /** Random generator for multi-start. */
    private RandomVectorGenerator generator;

    /** Found optima. */
    private RealPointValuePair[] optima;

    /**
     * Create a multi-start optimizer from a single-start optimizer
     * @param optimizer single-start optimizer to wrap
     * @param starts number of starts to perform (including the
     * first one), multi-start is disabled if value is less than or
     * equal to 1
     * @param generator random vector generator to use for restarts
     */
    public MultiStartMultivariateRealOptimizer(final MultivariateRealOptimizer optimizer,
                                               final int starts,
                                               final RandomVectorGenerator generator) {
        this.optimizer        = optimizer;
        this.totalIterations  = 0;
        this.totalEvaluations = 0;
        this.starts           = starts;
        this.generator        = generator;
        this.optima           = null;
        setMaxIterations(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
        setMaxEvaluations(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
    }

    /** Get all the optima found during the last call to {@link
     * #optimize(MultivariateRealFunction, GoalType, double[]) optimize}.
     * <p>The optimizer stores all the optima found during a set of
     * restarts. The {@link #optimize(MultivariateRealFunction, GoalType,
     * double[]) optimize} method returns the best point only. This
     * method returns all the points found at the end of each starts,
     * including the best one already returned by the {@link
     * #optimize(MultivariateRealFunction, GoalType, double[]) optimize}
     * method.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * The returned array as one element for each start as specified
     * in the constructor. It is ordered with the results from the
     * runs that did converge first, sorted from best to worst
     * objective value (i.e in ascending order if minimizing and in
     * descending order if maximizing), followed by and null elements
     * corresponding to the runs that did not converge. This means all
     * elements will be null if the {@link #optimize(MultivariateRealFunction,
     * GoalType, double[]) optimize} method did throw a {@link
     * agents.org.apache.commons.math.ConvergenceException ConvergenceException}).
     * This also means that if the first element is non null, it is the best
     * point found across all starts.</p>
     * @return array containing the optima
     * @exception IllegalStateException if {@link #optimize(MultivariateRealFunction,
     * GoalType, double[]) optimize} has not been called
     */
    public RealPointValuePair[] getOptima() throws IllegalStateException {
        if (optima == null) {
            throw MathRuntimeException.createIllegalStateException(LocalizedFormats.NO_OPTIMUM_COMPUTED_YET);
        }
        return optima.clone();
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public void setMaxIterations(int maxIterations) {
        this.maxIterations = maxIterations;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public int getMaxIterations() {
        return maxIterations;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public void setMaxEvaluations(int maxEvaluations) {
        this.maxEvaluations = maxEvaluations;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public int getMaxEvaluations() {
        return maxEvaluations;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public int getIterations() {
        return totalIterations;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public int getEvaluations() {
        return totalEvaluations;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public void setConvergenceChecker(RealConvergenceChecker checker) {
        optimizer.setConvergenceChecker(checker);
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public RealConvergenceChecker getConvergenceChecker() {
        return optimizer.getConvergenceChecker();
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public RealPointValuePair optimize(final MultivariateRealFunction f,
                                         final GoalType goalType,
                                         double[] startPoint)
        throws FunctionEvaluationException, OptimizationException, FunctionEvaluationException {

        optima           = new RealPointValuePair[starts];
        totalIterations  = 0;
        totalEvaluations = 0;

        // multi-start loop
        for (int i = 0; i < starts; ++i) {

            try {
                optimizer.setMaxIterations(maxIterations - totalIterations);
                optimizer.setMaxEvaluations(maxEvaluations - totalEvaluations);
                optima[i] = optimizer.optimize(f, goalType,
                                               (i == 0) ? startPoint : generator.nextVector());
            } catch (FunctionEvaluationException fee) {
                optima[i] = null;
            } catch (OptimizationException oe) {
                optima[i] = null;
            }

            totalIterations  += optimizer.getIterations();
            totalEvaluations += optimizer.getEvaluations();

        }

        // sort the optima from best to worst, followed by null elements
        Arrays.sort(optima, new Comparator<RealPointValuePair>() {
            public int compare(final RealPointValuePair o1, final RealPointValuePair o2) {
                if (o1 == null) {
                    return (o2 == null) ? 0 : +1;
                } else if (o2 == null) {
                    return -1;
                }
                final double v1 = o1.getValue();
                final double v2 = o2.getValue();
                return (goalType == GoalType.MINIMIZE) ?
                        Double.compare(v1, v2) : Double.compare(v2, v1);
            }
        });

        if (optima[0] == null) {
            throw new OptimizationException(
                    LocalizedFormats.NO_CONVERGENCE_WITH_ANY_START_POINT,
                    starts);
        }

        // return the found point given the best objective function value
        return optima[0];

    }

}