Re: evaluating functions within Findminimum
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- Subject: [mg100151] Re: evaluating functions within Findminimum
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 05:11:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi,
write a function, i.e.,
myfunction[l1_?NumericQ,l2_?NumericQ,l3_?NumericQ,ps1_?NumericQ,ps2_?NumericQ,ps3_?NumericQ]:=
...
and
FindMinimum[myfunction[l1,l2,l3,ps1,ps2,ps3],
Evaluate[Sequence @@ startval]]
Regards
Jens
Alberto Maydeu wrote:
> Greetings to all,
>
> I'm using
>
> FindMinimum[Evaluate[e . Inverse[NormalAcov[sigma]]. e], Evaluate[Sequence @@ startval]]
>
> NormalAcov[sigma] is a symbolic function. FindMinimum evaluates Inverse[NormalAcov[sigma]] symbolically then plugs in the numeric starting values and proceeds. This is obviously very slow for large problems.
>
> How can I get FindMinimum to first plug in the numeric starting values and perform Inverse[NormalAcov[sigma]] numerically as opposed to symbolically?
>
> In case my question is unclear, here's a toy example
>
> sigma = {{l1^2 + ps1, l1* l2, l1*l3}, {l1* l2, l2^2 + ps2, l2 l3}, {l1 l3, l2 l3, l3^2 + ps3}};
> startval = {{l1, .8}, {l2, .7}, {l3, .6}, {ps1, 1}, {ps2, 1}, {ps3, 1}};
> e = {1.7 - l1^2 - ps1, .5 - l1*l2, 1.6 - l2 - ps2, 1.5 - l1^2 - l3, .8 - l2*l3, 1.8 - l3^2 - ps3};
> FindMinimum[Evaluate[e . Inverse[NormalAcov[sigma]]. e], Evaluate[Sequence @@ startval]]
>
> with
>
> NormalAcov[matrix_List] := Module[{l1, l, c},
> l1 = Length[matrix];
> l = Binomial[l1 + 1, 2];
> c = Join @@ Table[{i, j}, {i, l1}, {j, 1, i }];
> Table[matrix[[c[[i, 1]], c[[j, 1]]]]*matrix[[c[[i, 2]], c[[j, 2]]]] + matrix[[c[[i, 1]], c[[j, 2]]]]*matrix[[c[[i, 2]], c[[j, 1]]]]
> , {i, l}, {j, l}]];
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Alberto
>