Tobias,

I have looked into this and added some details to the issue. As I
understand it, these matrix algorithms require instantiating
std::complex<ceres::Jet<T, N>, that leads to problems in the STL.

Sameer



On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:35 AM Sameer Agarwal <[email protected]>
wrote:

> sorry folks I have been missing in action, I will take a look as soon as I
> can.
> Sameer
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 12:26 PM Wood, Tobias <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have opened an issue here:
>> https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/issues/1912
>>
>>
>>
>> I remembered that I did previously discuss the .exp() issue with Sameer
>> on the Ceres mailing list, I have added a link to that, however I am now
>> getting a slightly different error message because it looks like the
>> internals of the STL have changed. Also, I have changed my algorithm
>> slightly and now only need .pow(), but this does not work with Jets either.
>> I think the problem with .pow() looks easier to fix?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Toby
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *Rasmus Munk Larsen <[email protected]>
>> *Reply to: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> *Date: *Thursday, 4 June 2020 at 18:46
>> *To: *eigen <[email protected]>, Sameer Agarwal <
>> [email protected]>
>> *Subject: *Re: [eigen] Using Eigen decompositions with ceres autodiff
>> Jet data type.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Tobias,
>>
>> Please do. Sameer, since this is Ceres solver related, could I ask you to
>> help out with this issue.
>>
>> Rasmus
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:06 AM Wood, Tobias <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> Apologies to bring up a tangentially related topic - Eigen's matrix
>> exponential also doesn't work with Ceres Jets. There is some code inside
>> the matrix exponential that checks if the scalar type is "known" to Eigen,
>> I assume because there are some constants it requires. Jet<double> is not
>> one of those types, so Eigen refuses to compile. When I encountered this
>> problem earlier this year I worked around it by using Ceres numeric
>> differentiation, but obviously if there's a chance to fix this and use
>> auto-differentiation I would be very happy (big speed increase hopefully).
>> Should I create an issue on the Eigen gitlab?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Toby
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *Oleg Shirokobrod <[email protected]>
>> *Reply to: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> *Date: *Thursday, 4 June 2020 at 06:36
>> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> *Subject: *Re: [eigen] Using Eigen decompositions with ceres autodiff
>> Jet data type.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. I would like to have autodiff ability, so I cannot use double for both
>> A and b. If I cast b: A.jacobiSVD().solve( b.cast<T>()) everything works
>> fine, but BinOp(T,T) is more expensive than BinOp(T, double). I would like
>> to keep b as a vector of doubles.
>>
>> 2. T=Jet is ceres solver autodiff implementation type. There is a trait
>> definition for Jet binary operations for type deduction such that
>> type(Jet*double) = Jet and so on. It works when I do direct multiplication 
>> VS^-1U^T
>> * b. It works similar to complex scalar matrices and double rhs and there
>> is the same problem for complex scalar cases.
>>
>> 3. I think that the mixed type deduction rule should give the same type
>> for VS^-1U^T * b and  for A.jcobianSVD().solve(b); where A = USV^T because
>> both use the same algorithm.
>>
>> 4. Unless there are serious reasons, deduction rules should be similar to
>> scalar type equations. complex<double> A; double b; x = A^-1 * b; type(x) =
>> complex<double>.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 11:16 PM Rasmus Munk Larsen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Try to compile your code in debug mode with the type assertions on.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 1:14 PM Rasmus Munk Larsen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Are you saying that you compute the decomposition in one type and solve
>> with a RHS of a different type? Why do you say that VS^-1U^T * b should be
>> Matrix<T>? That makes an assumption about type coercion rules. In fact, you
>> cannot generally mix types in Eigen expressions without explicit casting,
>> and U.adjoint() * b should fail if the types are different.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 11:33 AM Oleg Shirokobrod <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Rasmuss, I do not quite understand this issue. Decomposition solve should
>> propagate scalar type of a matrix but not scalar type of its argument.
>> Example:
>>
>> template <typename T> Matrix<T> A;
>>
>> VectorXd b;
>>
>> A.jcobiSVD().solve(b) should be of type Matrix<T> but it is not. Type of
>> result is Matrix<double>. If we make SVD decomposition of A = USV^T and
>> express result as VS^-1U^T * b, than result will be of type Matrix<T>.
>> Which is correct and differs from result of solve which uses the same
>> algorithm but more complex result’s type deduction. This is the problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed 3. Jun 2020 at 20.19, Rasmus Munk Larsen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> OK, I opened https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/issues/1909
>> <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Flibeigen%2Feigen%2F-%2Fissues%2F1909&data=01%7C01%7Ctobias.wood%40kcl.ac.uk%7C9b7731b3d2c24c6ea7e908d808af4522%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=4adEoOhABpJiEJlKW29VCAHkhG4EXH6ZnSeSQr8dmJ0%3D&reserved=0>
>>  for
>> this.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 11:06 PM Oleg Shirokobrod <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Yes. At the time of computing only 1d observation (VectorXd) is known.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 9:42 PM Rasmus Munk Larsen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> OK, so b is declared as VectorXf or some other type with
>> ColsAtCompileTime=1?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 11:27 AM Oleg Shirokobrod <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, b is measured spectrum that is 1d array. I have to get x for 1d
>> array at a time. I fit sum of peak models to 1d rhs. 1d array of peak model
>> values is one column of matrix A.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue 2. Jun 2020 at 20.06, Rasmus Munk Larsen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Why do you say that? You could be solving for multiple right-hand sides.
>> Is b know to have 1 column at compile time?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:31 AM Oleg Shirokobrod <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rasmus,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have just tested COD decomposition in Eigen library. It arises the same
>> problem. This is defect of Eigen decomposition module type reduction of
>> result of solve method.  If
>>
>>  template <typename T> Matrix<T, Dynamic, Dynamic>  A; and ArraXd b;,
>> than x = A.solve(b) should be of type  <typename T> Matrix<T, Dynamic, 1.>.
>>
>>
>>
>> I like the idea to use COD as an alternative to QR or SVD and I added
>> this option to my code.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:36 AM Oleg Shirokobrod <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Rasmus, I wiil have a look at COD. Brad, I did not try CppAD.I am
>> working in given framework: ceres nonlinear least squares solver + ceres
>> autodiff + Eigen decomposition modules SVD or QR. The problem is not just
>> on autodiff side. The problem is that Eigen decomposition modul does not
>> work properly with autodiff type variable.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you everybody for advice.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:41 PM Rasmus Munk Larsen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 10:33 AM Patrik Huber <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rasmus,
>>
>>
>>
>> This is slightly off-topic to this thread here, but it would be great if
>> you added your COD to the list/table of decompositions in Eigen:
>> https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/group__TopicLinearAlgebraDecompositions.html
>> <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feigen.tuxfamily.org%2Fdox%2Fgroup__TopicLinearAlgebraDecompositions.html&data=01%7C01%7Ctobias.wood%40kcl.ac.uk%7C9b7731b3d2c24c6ea7e908d808af4522%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=BeutduNEeXIXTOtbc8%2BfWXS3FnlTvzEQq0yPrJ7nUOo%3D&reserved=0>
>>
>>
>> First, it would make it easier for people to find, and second, it would
>> also help a lot to see on that page how the algorithm compares to the
>> others, to be able to choose it appropriately.
>>
>>
>> Good point. Will do.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Unrelated: @All/Maintainers: It seems like lots (all) of the images on
>> the documentation website are broken? At least for me. E.g.:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Patrik
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 17:59, Rasmus Munk Larsen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Oleg and Sameer,
>>
>>
>>
>> A faster option than SVD, but more robust than QR (since it also handles
>> the under-determined case) is the complete orthogonal decomposition that I
>> implemented in Eigen a few years ago.
>>
>>
>> https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/classEigen_1_1CompleteOrthogonalDecomposition.html
>> <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feigen.tuxfamily.org%2Fdox%2FclassEigen_1_1CompleteOrthogonalDecomposition.html&data=01%7C01%7Ctobias.wood%40kcl.ac.uk%7C9b7731b3d2c24c6ea7e908d808af4522%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=4ALzcdxWY8wDOlejWGXr9DfIUg%2FGV%2B9CnWkoozLWMSU%3D&reserved=0>
>>
>> (Looks like the docstring is broken - oops!)
>>
>> It appears to also be available in the 3.3 branch:
>> https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/blob/3.3/Eigen/src/QR/CompleteOrthogonalDecomposition.h
>> <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Flibeigen%2Feigen%2F-%2Fblob%2F3.3%2FEigen%2Fsrc%2FQR%2FCompleteOrthogonalDecomposition.h&data=01%7C01%7Ctobias.wood%40kcl.ac.uk%7C9b7731b3d2c24c6ea7e908d808af4522%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=F4uktFTL%2BeQ%2BOqeURPZ%2FoOaoReqnH1hU2CobNC%2BNxHk%3D&reserved=0>
>>
>> Rasmus
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:57 AM Sameer Agarwal <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Oleg,
>>
>> Two ideas:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. You may have an easier time using QR factorization instead of SVD to
>> solve your least squares problem.
>>
>> 2.  But you can do better, instead of trying to solve linear least
>> squares problem involving a matrix of Jets, you are better off, solving the
>> linear least squares problem on the scalars, and then using the implicit
>> function theorem
>> <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FImplicit_function_theorem&data=01%7C01%7Ctobias.wood%40kcl.ac.uk%7C9b7731b3d2c24c6ea7e908d808af4522%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=wACe44wQ0vA%2BVFojAnCxvAnvRkgps4y2sIcl0d1wLC4%3D&reserved=0>
>> to compute the derivative w.r.t the parameters and then applying the chain
>> rule.
>>
>>
>>
>> i.e., start with min |A x = b|
>>
>>
>>
>> the solution satisfies the equation
>>
>>
>>
>> A'A x - A'b = 0.
>>
>>
>>
>> solve this equation to get the optimal value of x, and then compute the
>> jacobian of this equation w.r.t A, b and x. and apply the implicit theorem.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sameer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:46 AM Oleg Shirokobrod <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi list, I am using Eigen 3.3.7 release with ceres solver 1.14.0 with
>> autodiff Jet data type and I have some problems. I need to solve linear
>> least square subproblem within variable projection algorithm, namely I need
>> to solve LLS equation
>>
>> A(p)*x = b
>>
>> Where matrix A(p) depends on nonlinear parameters p:
>>
>> x(p) = pseudo-inverse(A(p))*b;
>>
>> x(p) will be optimized in nonlinear least squares fitting, so I need
>> Jcobian. Rhs b is measured vector of doubles, e.g. VectorXd. In order to
>> use ceres's autodiff p must be of Jet type. Ceres provides corresponding
>> traits for binary operations
>>
>>
>>
>> #if EIGEN_VERSION_AT_LEAST(3, 3, 0)
>> // Specifying the return type of binary operations between Jets and
>> scalar types
>> // allows you to perform matrix/array operations with Eigen matrices and
>> arrays
>> // such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division where one
>> Eigen
>> // matrix/array is of type Jet and the other is a scalar type. This
>> improves
>> // performance by using the optimized scalar-to-Jet binary operations but
>> // is only available on Eigen versions >= 3.3
>> template <typename BinaryOp, typename T, int N>
>> struct ScalarBinaryOpTraits<ceres::Jet<T, N>, T, BinaryOp> {
>>   typedef ceres::Jet<T, N> ReturnType;
>> };
>> template <typename BinaryOp, typename T, int N>
>> struct ScalarBinaryOpTraits<T, ceres::Jet<T, N>, BinaryOp> {
>>   typedef ceres::Jet<T, N> ReturnType;
>> };
>> #endif  // EIGEN_VERSION_AT_LEAST(3, 3, 0)
>>
>>
>>
>> There two problems.
>>
>> 1. Small problem. In a function "RealScalar threshold() const" in
>> SCDbase.h I have to replace "return m_usePrescribedThreshold ?
>> m_prescribedThreshold
>>                                     : diagSize*
>> NumTraits<Scalar>::epsilon();" with "return m_usePrescribedThreshold ?
>> m_prescribedThreshold
>>                                     : Scalar(diagSize)*
>> NumTraits<Scalar>::epsilon();"
>>
>> This fix is similar Gael's fix of Bug 1403
>> <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Feigen.tuxfamily.org%2Fbz%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D1403&data=01%7C01%7Ctobias.wood%40kcl.ac.uk%7C9b7731b3d2c24c6ea7e908d808af4522%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=xcVjY1p2d8oscbHsEuiqRMdNPzGOGGI%2BLb%2FOqZUWrec%3D&reserved=0>
>>
>> 2. It is less trivial. I expect that x(p) = pseudo-inverse(A(p))*b; is
>> vector of Jet. And it is actually true for e.g SVD decompoazition
>>
>> x(p) = VSU^T * b.
>>
>> But if I use
>>
>> JcobySVD<Matrix<Jet<double, 2>, Dynamic, Dynamic>> svd(A);
>>
>> x(p) = svd.solve(b),
>>
>> I got error message.
>>
>> Here code for reproducing the error
>>
>>
>>
>> // test_svd_jet.cpp
>>
>> #include <ceres/jet.h>
>>
>> using ceres::Jet;
>>
>>
>>
>> int test_svd_jet()
>> {
>>
>>     typedef Matrix<Jet<double, 2>, Dynamic, Dynamic> Mat;
>>     typedef Matrix<Jet<double, 2>, Dynamic, 1> Vec;
>>      Mat A = MatrixXd::Random(3, 2).cast <Jet<double, 2>>();
>>      VectorXd b = VectorXd::Random(3);
>>
>>      JacobiSVD<Mat> svd(A, ComputeThinU | ComputeThinV);
>>      int l_rank = svd.rank();
>>      Vec c = svd.matrixV().leftCols(l_rank)
>>          * svd.singularValues().head(l_rank).asDiagonal().inverse()
>>          * svd.matrixU().leftCols(l_rank).adjoint() * b; // *
>>
>>      Vec c1 = svd.solve(b.cast<Jet<double, 2>>()); // **
>>
>>      Vec c2 = svd.solve(b); // ***
>>
>>      return 0;
>> }
>>
>> // End test_svd_jet.cpp
>>
>>
>>
>> // * and // ** work fine an give the same results. // *** fails with VS
>> 2019 error message
>>
>> Eigen\src\Core\functors\AssignmentFunctors.h(24,1):
>>
>> error C2679: binary '=': no operator found which takes
>> a right-hand operand of type 'const SrcScalar'
>> (or there is no acceptable conversion)
>>
>> The error points to line //***. I thing that solution is of type VectorXd
>> instead of Vec and there is problem with assignment of double to Jet.
>> Derivatives are lost either. It should work similar to complex type. If A
>> is complex matrix and b is real vector, x must be complex. There is
>> something wrong with Type deduction in SVD or QR decomposition.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you have any idea of how to fix it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Oleg Shirokobrod
>>
>>
>>
>>

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