# Grid Search Algorithm with a Zoom In zoomgrid: Grid Search Algorithm with a Zoom

knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>" )  # zoomgrid version 1.0.0 (Red Grid) The package implements provides the grid search algorithm with a zoom. The grid search algorithm with a zoom aims to help solving difficult optimization problem where there are many local optimizers inside the domain of the target function. It offers suitable initial or starting value for the following optimization procedure, provided that the global optimum exists in the neighbourhood of the initial or starting value. The grid search algorithm with a zoom saves time tremendously in cases with high-dimenstional arguments. and the corresponding paper See section 1.5.4. ## Example After installing the package, you need to load (attach better say) it by running the code library(zoomgrid)  You can take a look at all the available functions and data in the package ls( grep("zoomgrid", search()) )  ### Motivation Consider the two-dimensional Rastrigin function is a non-convex function which is widely used for testing the performances of some optimization algorithms. $f(x_1, x_2) = 2 A + \sum_{i=1}^2 \left( x_i^2 - A \cos(2 \pi x_i) \right)$ where$x_i \in [-5.12, 5.12]$and$A = 10$. It has many local minimum and its global minimum is at (0, 0) with the minimum value 0. Graph source: Rastrigin function @ WIKIPEDIA. We give the function in R: # Rastrigin function ndim = 2 # number of dimension nA = 10 # parameter A # vx in [-5.12, 5.12] # minimizer = rep(0, ndim) # minimum = 0 Rastrigin <- function(vx) return(nA * ndim + sum(vx*vx - nA * cos(2*pi*vx)))  Then let us try the optimization algorithms available in the optim function. # set seed and initialize the initial or starting value set.seed(1) par = runif(ndim, -5.12, 5.12) cat("start from", par) # results from different optimization algorithms tmp1 = optim(par = par, Rastrigin, method='Nelder-Mead') tmp2 = optim(par = par, Rastrigin, method='BFGS') tmp3 = optim(par = par, Rastrigin, method='L-BFGS-B') tmp4 = optim(par = par, Rastrigin, method='SANN') tmp1$par; tmp1$value tmp2$par; tmp2$value tmp3$par; tmp3$value tmp4$par; tmp4$value  None of them are satisfactory... ### Build the grid We need to build grid first for the grid search. For details, see ?build_grid  We build the grid by running # build the grid bin = c(from=-5.12, to=5.12, by=.1) grid = build_grid(bin,bin)  ### Grid search We can first try the sequential (no parallel) grid search # serial computation ret1 = grid_search(Rastrigin, grid, silent=FALSE) ret1$par


Then we run the parallel one

# parallel computation
ret2 = grid_search(Rastrigin, grid, num=2, parallel=TRUE, cores=2, silent=FALSE)
ret2$par  Try the grid search with a zoom! # grid search with a zoom! ret3 = grid_search(Rastrigin, grid, zoom=2, num=2, parallel=TRUE, cores=2, silent=FALSE) ret3$par


Sometimes it is strongly recommended to check the time consumed by running the grid search first. This is extremely useful when the user is going to run \code{\link{grid_search}} on some super-computing server and need to know approximately how long time it will take in order to specify the corresponding settings according to some batch system like SLURM for example. So you can do as follows

ret3 = grid_search_check(Rastrigin, grid, zoom=2, num=2, parallel=TRUE, cores=2, silent=FALSE)
ret3 = grid_search(Rastrigin, grid, zoom=2, num=2, parallel=TRUE, cores=2, silent=FALSE)


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