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[jira] [Commented] (MATH-728) Errors in BOBYQAOptimizer when numberOfInterpolationPoints is greater than 2*dim+1

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Bruce A Johnson commented on MATH-728:
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Making this change fixes the problem and seems reasonable, but one of the original translators (from FORTRAN to Java) should look this section of code over.


@@ -1657,10 +1657,10 @@
                     final int tmp2 = jpt;
                     jpt = ipt - n;
                     ipt = tmp2;
-                    throw new PathIsExploredException(); // XXX
+                    //throw new PathIsExploredException(); // XXX
                 }
-                interpolationPoints.setEntry(nfm, ipt, interpolationPoints.getEntry(ipt, ipt));
-                interpolationPoints.setEntry(nfm, jpt, interpolationPoints.getEntry(jpt, jpt));
+                interpolationPoints.setEntry(nfm, ipt-1, interpolationPoints.getEntry(ipt, ipt-1));
+                interpolationPoints.setEntry(nfm, jpt-1, interpolationPoints.getEntry(jpt, jpt-1));


                
> Errors in BOBYQAOptimizer when numberOfInterpolationPoints is greater than 2*dim+1
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MATH-728
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-728
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 3.0
>         Environment: Mac Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_29-b11-402-11M3527)
>            Reporter: Bruce A Johnson
>
> I've been having trouble getting BOBYQA to minimize a function (actually a non-linear least squares fit) so as one change I increased the number of interpolation points.  It seems that anything larger than 2*dim+1 causes an error (typically at
> line 1662
>                    interpolationPoints.setEntry(nfm, ipt, interpolationPoints.getEntry(ipt, ipt));
> I'm guessing there is an off by one error in the translation from FORTRAN.  Changing the BOBYQAOptimizerTest as follows (increasing number of interpolation points by one) will cause failures.
> Bruce
> Index: src/test/java/org/apache/commons/math/optimization/direct/BOBYQAOptimizerTest.java
> ===================================================================
> --- src/test/java/org/apache/commons/math/optimization/direct/BOBYQAOptimizerTest.java	(revision 1221065)
> +++ src/test/java/org/apache/commons/math/optimization/direct/BOBYQAOptimizerTest.java	(working copy)
> @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
>  //        RealPointValuePair result = optim.optimize(100000, func, goal, startPoint);
>          final double[] lB = boundaries == null ? null : boundaries[0];
>          final double[] uB = boundaries == null ? null : boundaries[1];
> -        BOBYQAOptimizer optim = new BOBYQAOptimizer(2 * dim + 1);
> +        BOBYQAOptimizer optim = new BOBYQAOptimizer(2 * dim + 2);
>          RealPointValuePair result = optim.optimize(maxEvaluations, func, goal, startPoint, lB, uB);
>  //        System.out.println(func.getClass().getName() + " = " 
>  //              + optim.getEvaluations() + " f(");

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