Florin,
How do you obtain x from (Y, b), i.e. x = g(Y,b)?
I don't follow how a "discontinuity" is introduced, when you plug in x(Y, b)
into f. If f(.) is smooth and all the g(.) are smooth, then the composition
f(g(.)) will also be smooth. If this is not the case, what type of
discontinuity do you have (e.g. f(.) is continuous, but its gradient is not, or
f(.) itself has jump discontinuites)?
Ravi.
____________________________________________________________________
Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
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----- Original Message -----
From: Florin Maican <florin.mai...@handels.gu.se>
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009 3:48 pm
Subject: Re: [R] constraint optimization: solving large scale general
nonlinear problems
To: Ravi Varadhan <rvarad...@jhmi.edu>
Cc: r-help <r-help@r-project.org>
> The number of variables is larger that the number of functions constraints.
> You are right I can rewrite my problem like this
>
> max f =h1(x11;x12;..;x1n;Y,b)+ h2(x21,x22, ... x2m;Y,b)
> x,b
>
> I know Y and for given values of b I can compute {x11, x1n}
> as
> one system of equations
> and {x21,x22 and x2m} as another system of equations. The x are functions
> of Y and b.
>
> I can solve these systems and after plug x(Y,b) in f(.) and find optimal
> b, but this will introduce discontinuity and I cannot find the optimal
> solution. I tried like this by using Rgenoud and SANN but both algorithms
> did not converge after 1 week!!!!!
> In my case the number of h functions are over 30.
>
> Florin
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Ravi Varadhan <rvarad...@jhmi.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Looking at your problem, it seems like you can simply transform it
> to an
> > unconstrained problem:
> >
> > Maximize h(x1, x2, ..., xn)
> >
> > where h(x1, x2, ..., xn) = f(g1(x), g2(x), ..., gn(x)).
> >
> > Am I missing something or haven't you provided all the information?
> >
> > Ravi.
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> >
> > Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D.
> > Assistant Professor,
> > Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
> > School of Medicine
> > Johns Hopkins University
> >
> > Ph. (410) 502-2619
> > email: rvarad...@jhmi.edu
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ravi Varadhan <rvarad...@jhmi.edu>
> > Date: Friday, March 27, 2009 2:42 pm
> > Subject: Re: [R] constraint optimization: solving large scale general
> > nonlinear problems
> > To: Florin Maican <florin.mai...@handels.gu.se>
> > Cc: r-help <r-help@r-project.org>
> >
> >
> > > Can you tell us more about your obj function, f, and the equality
> > > constraints g_k?
> > >
> > > Do you really have as many equality constraints as the number of
> > > variables? Are these all non-linear? Can't you find the roots of
> > > this system of equations? If yes, you could find all the roots (with
> > > multiple starts or some other search technique) and choose the one
> > > that maximizes f(x).
> > >
> > > Ravi.
> > > ____________________________________________________________________
> > >
> > > Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D.
> > > Assistant Professor,
> > > Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
> > > School of Medicine
> > > Johns Hopkins University
> > >
> > > Ph. (410) 502-2619
> > > email: rvarad...@jhmi.edu
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Florin Maican <florin.mai...@handels.gu.se>
> > > Date: Friday, March 27, 2009 2:01 pm
> > > Subject: [R] constraint optimization: solving large scale general
> > > nonlinear problems
> > > To: r-help <r-help@r-project.org>
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I need advice regarding constraint optimization with large number
> > > of
> > > > variables.
> > > >
> > > > I need to solve the following problem
> > > >
> > > > max f(x1,...,xn)
> > > > x1,..xn
> > > >
> > > > x1=g1(x1,...,xn)
> > > > .
> > > > .
> > > > xn=gn(x1,...,xn)
> > > >
> > > > I am using Rdonlp2 package which works well until 40
> variables in
> > > my
> > > > case. I need to solve this problem with over 300 variables. In
> > > this case
> > > > Rdonlp2 is very very slowly. I know that in Matlab exists Knitro
> > > > ( for large optimization problems.
> > > >
> > > > It will be great if you can suggest me some alternatives solutions.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > Florin
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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