[R] Optimization issue - Solution converges for any initial value

Paul Gilbert pgilbert902 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 22:41:31 CEST 2016


Narendra

You should check the definition of your objective function, something 
seems to be wrong.  When you evaluate the objective function with your 
initial guess, and then with some different value, you should expect the 
returned value will be different, but it is not:

 > print(Koval.Error.func(vp.kval, n=1), digits=20)
[1] 2767.1357969742521163
 > print(Koval.Error.func(2*vp.kval, n=1), digits=20)
[1] 2767.1357969742521163

So the objective function is flat. Optim converges with the message 
"CONVERGENCE: NORM OF PROJECTED GRADIENT <= PGTOL". Of course, the 
gradient is zero because the objective function is flat.

This would normally be considered a "user error" but perhaps John's 
newer code can catch it?

Paul

> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:53:08 -0500
> From: Narendra Modi <bjpmodi2016 at gmail.com>
> To: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Subject: [R] Optimization issue - Solution converges for any initial
> 	value
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> I have put together a R snippet wherein I am trying to get optimum
> values for which error is minimized. The error is the difference
> between two matrices.
> Every time I run the below code, I don't see any optimization
> happening as in the final answer is the same as the initial estimate
> regardless of what I mention as initial estimate.
> Could you please advise on how can I improve it?
> I have also tried using nloptr but to no avail.
>
> To optimize vp.kval
>
>
>
>
> my.data.matrix.prod <- matrix(a,nrow = length(a),1)
> Estimated.Qt.mat <- matrix(b,nrow = nrow(my.data.matrix.prod), ncol = 1)
> Cum.WInj.matrix <- matrix (c,nrow = nrow(my.data.matrix.prod), ncol = 1)
> Koval.tD <- matrix(,nrow = nrow(my.data.matrix.prod), ncol = 1)  # tD Matrix
> Koval.fw <- matrix(,nrow = nrow(my.data.matrix.prod), ncol = 1) # fw Matrix
>
> Koval.Error.func <- function(vp.kval,n)
> {
>   #First convert vector(Koval.InitialData.list) to MATRIX and send it
> to calculate estimated matrix
>
>   Koval.InitialData.Matrix <- matrix(vp.kval,nrow = 2, 1,byrow = TRUE)
>  # Define Koval Parameters Matrix for the "n"
>
>   Qo.Koval <- Qo.Koval(Koval.InitialData.Matrix)  # Get Qo Estimation from Koval
>
>   diff.values <- my.data.matrix.prod[,n] - Qo.Koval  #FIND DIFFERENCE
> BETWEEN CAL. MATRIX AND ORIGINAL MATRIX
>
>   Error <- ((colSums ((diff.values^2), na.rm = TRUE, dims =
> 1))/nrow(my.data.matrix.prod))^0.5    #sum of square root of the diff
>
>   Error   # return error value
> }
>
> Qo.Koval <- function(Koval.InitialData.Matrix)
> {
>   Qo.Koval.Est <- matrix(,nrow(my.data.matrix.prod), 1)
> #ncol(my.data.matrix.prod)
>
>   for(rowno in 1:nrow(my.data.matrix.prod)) #number of rows of data
>   {
>     Koval.tD[rowno,1] = Cum.WInj.matrix[rowno,1] *
> Koval.InitialData.Matrix[1,1]   # Evaluate tD matrix
>
>     if(Koval.tD[rowno,1] < (1/Koval.InitialData.Matrix[2,1]))
>     {
>       Koval.fw[rowno,1] = 0
>     }
>     else
>     {
>       if(Koval.tD[rowno,1] > Koval.InitialData.Matrix[2,1])
>       {
>         Koval.fw[rowno,1] = 1
>       }else
>       {
>         Koval.fw[rowno,1] = (Koval.InitialData.Matrix[2,1] -
> sqrt(Koval.InitialData.Matrix[2,1]/Koval.tD[rowno,1]))/(Koval.InitialData.Matrix[2,1]-1)
>       }
>     }
>
>     Qo.Koval.Est[rowno,1] = Koval.fw[rowno,1] * Estimated.Qt.mat[rowno,1]
>   }
>
>   Qo.Koval.Est    # Return Estimated matrix
> }
>
> vp.kval <- c(100000,1)  #initial estimate
> Koval.lb = c(0,0)
> Koval.ub = c(Inf,Inf)
> n <- 1
> Koval.result <- optim(vp.kval,Koval.Error.func, method = "L-BFGS-B",
> lower = Koval.lb,
>                      upper = Koval.ub, n=n)
> print(paste(Koval.result$convergence))
> print(paste(Koval.result$par))
>
>
> Here is the input data:
>
> a:
>
> structure(c(414, 40, 639, 616, 677, 598, 586, 494, 322, 351,
> 322, 213, 395, 358, 406, 384, 409, 404, 370, 376, 412, 404, 369,
> 391, 341, 350, 349, 313, 302, 196, 386, 330, 350, 323, 454, 465,
> 465, 399, 416, 396, 453, 388, 496, 379, 472, 491, 492, 503, 516,
> 454, 630, 547, 578, 312, 764, 672, 548, 611, 546, 552, 520, 486,
> 581, 559, 433, 262, 650, 615, 542, 571, 542, 529, 577, 469, 557,
> 540, 546, 519, 376, 605, 520, 435, 299, 531, 538, 475, 511, 487,
> 490, 494, 537, 482, 438, 498, 312, 476, 383, 382), .Dim = c(98L,
> 1L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, "Q2"))
>
> b:
>
> structure(c(2342.12883525675, 2595.06229039124, 2715.2774272809,
> 2742.14586849367, 2678.48814516156, 2769.17482063132, 2809.26904957691,
> 2647.26143288146, 2142.48588931211, 1986.26692938822, 2417.80180308667,
> 2539.99173834861, 2889.68696098066, 2949.03395956634, 3345.265659123,
> 3178.09552101488, 3202.97894028497, 3294.04615708455, 3273.96002181006,
> 3290.59294404149, 3074.57078080845, 2809.00966959208, 2870.20594457832,
> 2994.89960881099, 3031.51083818418, 2838.72778780229, 2779.83367818986,
> 2471.70302686638, 2277.52074079803, 2313.67080371772, 2415.57558854185,
> 2593.57170885689, 2579.65222779155, 2542.47630393453, 2610.16334633228,
> 2715.1622580481, 2680.04491562794, 2676.08878142995, 2890.5657368073,
> 2939.98447437336, 2932.41354171428, 2699.29100102243, 2748.9757584712,
> 2885.90115387751, 2841.03004973532, 3111.28842226602, 3293.09352655985,
> 3448.16679970445, 3470.58231818316, 3077.6191619663, 2892.81263635983,
> 2563.00601428125, 2410.40833201752, 2696.80369889632, 3250.95996536945,
> 3900.33363068933, 3571.89127039948, 3569.09158205254, 3718.94141619046,
> 3963.05018539626, 4317.67764180387, 4143.2306512351, 4482.33003541385,
> 4313.47162218783, 4162.58533919444, 4119.75974744111, 4080.01960112015,
> 4146.78116940934, 3848.98992961189, 3507.00912988581, 3336.3269842557,
> 3691.50683899193, 3616.0923981163, 3325.14304882807, 3471.79805853069,
> 3229.60965194249, 3106.05768279943, 3184.66721766981, 3140.79657087168,
> 3242.97205541341, 3090.78617601495, 3086.74973135927, 3317.74000570974,
> 3594.90929884806, 3716.02759860505, 3622.91307702134, 3793.8518218782,
> 3666.82966979173, 3779.4557494045, 3750.98605852729, 3333.45681985961,
> 3057.22984206785, 3395.04273620089, 3623.47886822009, 3690.34495906538,
> 3827.97665203175, 3933.61679986677, 3762.82354740958), .Dim = c(98L,
> 1L))
>
> c:
>
> structure(c(2854.17262019504, 91576.5893971961, 171680.262910889,
> 257565.867448752, 335812.78671975, 424624.296030534, 510229.898689908,
> 586994.432148103, 636896.230541501, 691311.784820203, 780382.614051205,
> 860628.109248455, 961649.745761829, 1055011.51571743, 1162113.22730208,
> 1255164.70993334, 1352077.97513698, 1457172.94644257, 1554726.68952114,
> 1657279.26732716, 1745523.14071769, 1821000.62788843, 1911979.2340704,
> 2005954.86455037, 2101129.54803795, 2182822.62676551, 2258661.15941603,
> 2325202.52364728, 2387098.71588595, 2460005.26984465, 2535846.63352407,
> 2622071.03988945, 2701584.84087477, 2776628.22472118, 2859757.87551639,
> 2944689.28669068, 3026621.7086177, 3109451.02390273, 3200463.68736646,
> 3293220.09008416, 3380941.82063061, 3456992.53009029, 3541106.87910663,
> 3635049.74483035, 3721653.58199201, 3823940.56521733, 3931974.7704047,
> 4040554.293988, 4148875.73758196, 4231424.94909108, 4306157.82023537,
> 4374820.38189491, 4442080.07977206, 4535051.28823047, 4650928.35668784,
> 4793084.92990124, 4893067.57046614, 5000047.61946087, 5120237.59556207,
> 5247211.61097682, 5392662.33159569, 5515394.91894634, 5652397.35652795,
> 5780590.26125026, 5900471.93425283, 6026783.31719041, 6147868.09782702,
> 6278602.62144284, 6388178.16489299, 6482065.35854026, 6579907.11054506,
> 6702412.42037957, 6812043.87236422, 6905604.01572694, 7007786.71329603,
> 7099980.68361161, 7189071.57372477, 7290368.20702837, 7383139.53472758,
> 7487014.64958016, 7577849.79802546, 7670318.64215094, 7780726.13033402,
> 7897750.56237753, 8016910.17077053, 8126173.95193153, 8241923.12215802,
> 8351438.92663496, 8468551.68021943, 8583900.77567578, 8670079.97000769,
> 8755816.49103472, 8872115.39013376, 8988383.34061776, 9104971.76148562,
> 9224368.08502439, 9349766.5439318, 9460826.05419725), .Dim = c(98L,
> 1L))
>



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