transfinite | R Documentation |
Transformation of a box/bound constrained region to an unconstrained one.
transfinite(lower, upper, n = length(lower))
lower, upper |
lower and upper box/bound constraints. |
n |
length of upper, lower if both are scalars, to which they get repeated. |
Transforms a constraint region in n-dimensional space bijectively to the
unconstrained R^n
space, applying a atanh
resp. exp
transformation to each single variable that is bound constraint.
It provides two functions, h: B = []x...x[] --> R^n
and its inverse
hinv
. These functions can, for example, be used to add box/bound
constraints to a constrained optimization problem that is to be solved with
a (nonlinear) solver not allowing constraints.
Returns to functions as components h
and hinv
of a list.
Based on an idea of Ravi Varadhan, intrinsically used in his implementation of Nelder-Mead in the ‘dfoptim’ package.
For positivity constraints, x>=0
, this approach is considered to be
numerically more stable than x-->exp(x)
or x-->x^2
.
lower <- c(-Inf, 0, 0)
upper <- c( Inf, 0.5, 1)
Tf <- transfinite(lower, upper)
h <- Tf$h; hinv <- Tf$hinv
## Not run:
## Solve Rosenbrock with one variable restricted
rosen <- function(x) {
n <- length(x)
x1 <- x[2:n]; x2 <- x[1:(n-1)]
sum(100*(x1-x2^2)^2 + (1-x2)^2)
}
f <- function(x) rosen(hinv(x)) # f must be defined on all of R^n
x0 <- c(0.1, 0.1, 0.1) # starting point not on the boundary!
nm <- nelder_mead(h(x0), f) # unconstraint Nelder-Mead
hinv(nm$xmin); nm$fmin # box/bound constraint solution
# [1] 0.7085596 0.5000000 0.2500004
# [1] 0.3353605
## End(Not run)
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