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| package org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.general; |
| |
| /** |
| * This interface represents a preconditioner for differentiable scalar |
| * objective function optimizers. |
| * @deprecated As of 3.1 (to be removed in 4.0). |
| * @since 2.0 |
| */ |
| @Deprecated |
| public interface Preconditioner { |
| /** |
| * Precondition a search direction. |
| * <p> |
| * The returned preconditioned search direction must be computed fast or |
| * the algorithm performances will drop drastically. A classical approach |
| * is to compute only the diagonal elements of the hessian and to divide |
| * the raw search direction by these elements if they are all positive. |
| * If at least one of them is negative, it is safer to return a clone of |
| * the raw search direction as if the hessian was the identity matrix. The |
| * rationale for this simplified choice is that a negative diagonal element |
| * means the current point is far from the optimum and preconditioning will |
| * not be efficient anyway in this case. |
| * </p> |
| * @param point current point at which the search direction was computed |
| * @param r raw search direction (i.e. opposite of the gradient) |
| * @return approximation of H<sup>-1</sup>r where H is the objective function hessian |
| */ |
| double[] precondition(double[] point, double[] r); |
| } |