Re-posted from: http://abelsiqueira.github.io/nlpmodelsjl-and-cutestjl-constrained-optimization/
This is a continuation of this
post.
And again, you can follow the commands of this post in the
asciinema.
If you followed along last post, you should know the basics of our
NLPModels API, including CUTEst access.
One thing I didn’t explore, though, was constrained problems.
It’d complicate too much.
However, now that we know how to handle the basics, we can move to the
advanced.
Nonlinear Programming format
The NLPModels internal structure is based on the CUTEst way of storing a
problem.
We use the following form for the optimization problem:
Given an AbstractNLPModel named nlp, the values for $\ell$, $u$, $c_L$ and
$c_U$ are stored in an NLPModelMeta structure, and can be accessed by
through nlp.meta.
Let’s look back at the simple Rosenbrock problem of before.
using NLPModels
f(x) = (x[1] - 1)^2 + 100*(x[2] - x[1]^2)^2
x0 = [-1.2; 1.0]
nlp = ADNLPModel(f, x0)
print(nlp.meta)
You should be seeing this:
Minimization problem Generic
nvar = 2, ncon = 0 (0 linear)
lvar = -Inf -Inf
uvar = Inf Inf
lcon = ∅
ucon = ∅
x0 = -1.2 1.0
y0 = ∅
nnzh = 4
nnzj = 0
Although the meaning of these values is reasonably straigthforward, I’ll explain a bit.
nvaris the number of variables in a problem;nconis the number of constraints, without counting the bounds;lvaris the vector $\ell$, the lower bounds on the variables;uvaris the vector $u$, the upper bounds on the variables;lconis the vector $c_L$, the lower bounds of the constraints function;uconis the vector $c_U$, the upper bounds of the constraints function;x0is the initial approximation to the solution, aka the starting point;y0is the initial approximation to the Lagrange multipliers;nnzhis the number of nonzeros on the Hessian¹;nnzjis the number of nonzeros on the Jacobian¹;
¹ nnzh and nnzj are not consistent between models, because some consider the dense matrix, and for the Hessian, some consider only the triangle. However, if you’re possibly considering using nnzh, you’re probably looking for hess_coord too, and hess_coord returns with the correct size.
These values can be accessed directly as fields in meta with the same name above.
nlp.meta.ncon
nlp.meta.x0
nlp.meta.lvar
Bounds
Now, let’s create a bounded problem.
nlp = ADNLPModel(f, x0, lvar=zeros(2), uvar=[0.4; 0.6])
print(nlp.meta)
Now the bounds are set, and you can access them with
nlp.meta.lvar
nlp.meta.uvar
That’s pretty much it. For SimpleNLPModel, it’s the same thing.
MathProgNLPModel inherits the bounds, as expected:
using JuMP
jmp = Model()
u = [0.4; 0.6]
@variable(jmp, 0 <= x[i=1:2] <= u[i], start=(x0[i]))
@NLobjective(jmp, Min, (x[1] - 1)^2 + 100*(x[2] - x[1]^2)^2)
mpbnlp = MathProgNLPModel(jmp)
print(mpbnlp.meta)
For CUTEst, there is no differentiation on creating a problem with bounds or
not, since it uses the internal description of the problem.
For instance, HS4 is a bounded problem.
using CUTEst
clp = CUTEstModel("HS4")
print(clp.meta)
finalize(clp)
Notice that it can happen that one or more of the variables is unlimited
(lower, upper or both). This is represented by the value Inf in Julia.
This should be expected since the unconstrained problem already used these
Inf values.
On the other hand, it could happen that $\ell_i = u_i$, in which case the
variable is fixed, or that $\ell_i > u_i$, in which case the variable (and the
problem) is infeasible.
Note that NLPModels only creates the model, it doesn’t check whether it is
feasible or not, even in this simple example. That said, CUTEst shouldn’t have
any infeasible variable.
Furthermore, all these types of bounds can be accessed from meta. Notice that
there are 6 possible situations:
- Free variables, stored in
meta.ifree; - Fixed variables, stored in
meta.ifix; - Variables bounded below, stored in
meta.ilow; - Variables bounded above, stored in
meta.iupp; - Variables bounded above and below, stored in
meta.irng; - Infeasible variables, stored in
meta.iinf.
Here is one example with one of each of them
nlp = ADNLPModel(x->dot(x,x), zeros(6),
lvar = [-Inf, -Inf, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
uvar = [ Inf, 1.0, Inf, 1.0, 0.0, -1.0])
nlp.meta.ifree
nlp.meta.ifix
nlp.meta.ilow
nlp.meta.iupp
nlp.meta.irng
nlp.meta.iinf
Constraints
Constraints are stored in NLPModels following in the format $c_L \leq c(x) \leq c_U$.
That means that an equality constraint happens when $c_{L_j} = c_{U_j}$.
Let’s look at how to create a problem with constraints.
For ADNLPModel, you need to pass three keywords arguments: c, lcon and ucon,
which represent $c(x)$, $c_L$ and $c_U$, respectively.
For instance, the problem
is created by doing
c(x) = [x[1] + x[2] - 1]
lcon = [0.0]
ucon = [0.0]
nlp = ADNLPModel(x->dot(x,x), zeros(2), c=c, lcon=lcon, ucon=ucon)
or alternatively, if you don’t want the intermediary functions
nlp = ADNLPModel(x->dot(x,x), zeros(2), c=x->[x[1]+x[2]-1], lcon=[0.0], ucon=[0.0])
Another possibility is to do
nlp = ADNLPModel(x->dot(x,x), zeros(2), c=x->[x[1]+x[2]], lcon=[1.0], ucon=[1.0])
Personally, I prefer the former.
For inequalities, you can have only lower, only upper, and both.
The commands
nlp = ADNLPModel(x->dot(x,x), zeros(2),
c=x->[x[1] + x[2]; 3x[1] + 2x[2]; x[1]*x[2]],
lcon = [-1.0; -Inf; 1.0],
ucon = [Inf; 3.0; 2.0])
implement the problem
Again, the types of constraints can be accessed in meta, through
nlp.meta.jfix, jfree, jinf, jlow, jrng and jupp.
Notice if you forget to set lcon and ucon, there will be no
constraints, even though c is set. This is because the number of
constraints is taken from the lenght of these vectors.
Now, to access these constraints, let’s consider this simple problem.
nlp = ADNLPModel(f, x0, c=x->[x[1]*x[2] - 0.5], lcon=[0.0], ucon=[0.0])
The function cons return $c(x)$.
cons(nlp, nlp.meta.x0)
The function jac returns the Jacobian of $c$. jprod and jtprod the
Jacobian product times a vector, and jac_op the LinearOperator.
jac(nlp, nlp.meta.x0)
jprod(nlp, nlp.meta.x0, ones(2))
jtprod(nlp, nlp.meta.x0, ones(1))
J = jac_op(nlp, nlp.meta.x0)
J * ones(2)
J' * ones(1)
To get the Hessian we’ll use the same functions as the unconstrained case,
with the addition of a keyword parameter y.
y = [1e4]
hess(nlp, nlp.meta.x0, y=y)
hprod(nlp, nlp.meat.x0, ones(2))
H = hess_op(nlp, nlp.meta.x0, y=y)
H * ones(2)
If you want to ignore the objective function, or scale it by some value,
you can use the keyword parameter obj_weight.
s = 0.0
hess(nlp, nlp.meta.x0, y=y, obj_weight=s)
hprod(nlp, nlp.meat.x0, ones(2), obj_weight=s)
H = hess_op(nlp, nlp.meta.x0, y=y, obj_weight=s)
H * ones(2)
Check the
API
for more details.
We can also create a constrained JuMP model.
x0 = [-1.2; 1.0]
jmp = Model()
@variable(jmp, x[i=1:2], start=(x0[i]))
@NLobjective(jmp, Min, (x[1] - 1)^2 + 100*(x[2] - x[1]^2)^2)
@NLcontraint(jmp, x[1]*x[2] == 0.5)
mpbnlp = MathProgNLPModel(jmp)
cons(mpbnlp, mpbnlp.meta.x0)
jac(mpbnlp, mpbnlp.meta.x0)
hess(mpbnlp, mpbnlp.meta.x0, y=y)
And again, the access in CUTEst problems is the same.
clp = CUTEstModel("BT1")
cons(clp, clp.meta.x0)
jac(clp, clp.meta.x0)
hess(clp, clp.meta.x0, y=clp.meta.y0)
finalize(clp)
Convenience functions
There are some convenience functions to check whether a problem has only
equalities, only bounds, etc.
For clarification, we’re gonna say function constraint to refer to constraints that are not bounds.
has_bounds: Returnstrueis variable has bounds.bound_constrained: Returnstrueifhas_boundsand no function
constraints;unconstrained: No function constraints nor bounds;linearly_constrained: There are function constraints, and they are
linear; obs: even though abound_constrainedproblem is linearly
constrained, this will return false.equality_constrained: There are function constraints, and they are all equalities;inequality_constrained: There are function constraints, and they are all inequalities;
Example solver
Let’s implement a “simple” solver for constrained optimization.
Our solver will loosely follow the Byrd-Omojokun implementation of
M. Lalee, J. Nocedal, and T. Plantenga. On the implementation of an algorithm for large-scale equality constrained optimization. SIAM J. Optim., Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 682-706, 1998.
function solver(nlp :: AbstractNLPModel)
if !equality_constrained(nlp)
error("This solver is for equality constrained problems")
elseif has_bounds(nlp)
error("Can't handle bounds")
end
x = nlp.meta.x0
fx = obj(nlp, x)
cx = cons(nlp, x)
∇fx = grad(nlp, x)
Jx = jac_op(nlp, x)
λ = cgls(Jx', -∇fx)[1]
∇ℓx = ∇fx + Jx'*λ
norm∇ℓx = norm(∇ℓx)
Δ = max(0.1, min(100.0, 10norm∇ℓx))
μ = 1
v = zeros(nlp.meta.nvar)
iter = 0
while (norm∇ℓx > 1e-4 || norm(cx) > 1e-4) && (iter < 10000)
# Vertical step
if norm(cx) > 1e-4
v = cg(Jx'*Jx, -Jx'*cx, radius=0.8Δ)[1]
Δp = sqrt(Δ^2 - dot(v,v))
else
fill!(v, 0)
Δp = Δ
end
# Horizontal step
# Simplified to consider only ∇ℓx = proj(∇f, Nu(A))
B = hess_op(nlp, x, y=λ)
B∇ℓx = B * ∇ℓx
gtBg = dot(∇ℓx, B∇ℓx)
gtγ = dot(∇ℓx, ∇fx + B * v)
t = if gtBg <= 0
norm∇ℓx > 0 ? Δp/norm∇ℓx : 0.0
else
t = min(gtγ/gtBg, Δp/norm∇ℓx)
end
d = v - t * ∇ℓx
# Trial step acceptance
xt = x + d
ft = obj(nlp, xt)
ct = cons(nlp, xt)
γ = dot(d, ∇fx) + 0.5*dot(d, B * d)
θ = norm(cx) - norm(Jx * d + cx)
normλ = norm(λ, Inf)
if θ <= 0
μ = normλ
elseif normλ > γ/θ
μ = min(normλ, 0.1 + γ/θ)
else
μ = 0.1 + γ/θ
end
Pred = -γ + μ * θ
Ared = fx - ft + μ * (norm(cx) - norm(ct))
ρ = Ared/Pred
if ρ > 1e-2
x .= xt
fx = ft
cx .= ct
∇fx = grad(nlp, x)
Jx = jac_op(nlp, x)
λ = cgls(Jx', -∇fx)[1]
∇ℓx = ∇fx + Jx'*λ
norm∇ℓx = norm(∇ℓx)
if ρ > 0.75 && norm(d) > 0.99Δ
Δ *= 2.0
end
else
Δ *= 0.5
end
iter += 1
end
return x, fx, norm∇ℓx, norm(cx)
end
Too loosely, in fact.
- The horizontal step computes only the Cauchy step;
- No special updates;
- No second-order correction;
- No efficient implementation beyond the easy-to-do.
To test how good it is, let’s run on the Hock-Schittkowski constrained problems.
function runcutest()
problems = filter(x->contains(x, "HS") && length(x) <= 5, CUTEst.select(only_free_var=true, only_equ_con=true))
sort!(problems)
@printf("%-7s %15s %15s %15s\n",
"Problem", "f(x)", "‖∇ℓ(x,λ)‖", "‖c(x)‖")
for p in problems
nlp = CUTEstModel(p)
try
x, fx, nlx, ncx = solver(nlp)
@printf("%-7s %15.8e %15.8e %15.8e\n", p, fx, nlx, ncx)
catch
@printf("%-7s %s\n", p, "failure")
finally
finalize(nlp)
end
end
end
I’m gonna print the output of this one, so you can compare it with yours.
Problem f(x) ‖∇ℓ(x,λ)‖ ‖c(x)‖
HS26 5.15931251e-07 9.88009545e-05 5.24359322e-05
HS27 4.00000164e-02 5.13264248e-05 2.26312672e-09
HS28 7.00144545e-09 9.46563681e-05 2.44249065e-15
HS39 -1.00000010e+00 1.99856691e-08 1.61607518e-07
HS40 -2.50011760e-01 4.52797064e-05 2.53246505e-05
HS42 1.38577292e+01 5.06661945e-05 5.33092868e-05
HS46 3.56533430e-06 9.98827045e-05 8.00086215e-05
HS47 3.53637757e-07 9.71339790e-05 7.70496596e-05
HS48 4.65110036e-10 4.85457139e-05 2.27798719e-15
HS49 3.14248189e-06 9.94899395e-05 2.27488138e-13
HS50 1.36244906e-12 2.16913725e-06 2.90632554e-14
HS51 1.58249170e-09 8.52213221e-05 6.52675179e-15
HS52 5.32664756e+00 3.35626559e-05 3.21155766e-14
HS56 -3.45604528e+00 9.91076239e-05 3.14471179e-05
HS6 5.93063756e-13 6.88804464e-07 9.61311292e-06
HS61 -1.43646176e+02 1.06116455e-05 1.80421875e-05
HS7 -1.73205088e+00 1.23808109e-11 2.60442422e-07
HS77 2.41501014e-01 8.31210333e-05 7.75367223e-05
HS78 -2.91972281e+00 2.27102179e-05 2.88776440e-05
HS79 7.87776482e-02 4.77319205e-05 7.55827729e-05
HS8 -1.00000000e+00 0.00000000e+00 2.39989802e-06
HS9 -5.00000000e-01 1.23438228e-06 3.55271368e-15
If you compare against the Hock-Schitkowski paper, you’ll see that
the method converged for all 22 problems.
Considering our simplifications, this is a very exciting.
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