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OptimizerNLoptr class that implements non-linear optimization. Calls nloptr::nloptr() from package nloptr.

Source

Johnson, G S (2020). “The NLopt nonlinear-optimization package.” https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt.

Parameters

algorithm

character(1)

eval_g_ineq

function()

xtol_rel

numeric(1)

xtol_abs

numeric(1)

ftol_rel

numeric(1)

ftol_abs

numeric(1)

start_values

character(1)
Create random start values or based on center of search space? In the latter case, it is the center of the parameters before a trafo is applied.

For the meaning of the control parameters, see nloptr::nloptr() and nloptr::nloptr.print.options().

The termination conditions stopval, maxtime and maxeval of nloptr::nloptr() are deactivated and replaced by the Terminator subclasses. The x and function value tolerance termination conditions (xtol_rel = 10^-4, xtol_abs = rep(0.0, length(x0)), ftol_rel = 0.0 and ftol_abs = 0.0) are still available and implemented with their package defaults. To deactivate these conditions, set them to -1.

Progress Bars

$optimize() supports progress bars via the package progressr combined with a Terminator. Simply wrap the function in progressr::with_progress() to enable them. We recommend to use package progress as backend; enable with progressr::handlers("progress").

Super class

bbotk::Optimizer -> OptimizerNLoptr

Methods

Inherited methods


Method new()

Creates a new instance of this R6 class.

Usage


Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

OptimizerNLoptr$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

# \donttest{
if (requireNamespace("nloptr")) {

  search_space = domain = ps(x = p_dbl(lower = -1, upper = 1))

  codomain = ps(y = p_dbl(tags = "minimize"))

  objective_function = function(xs) {
    list(y = as.numeric(xs)^2)
  }

  objective = ObjectiveRFun$new(
    fun = objective_function,
    domain = domain,
    codomain = codomain)


  # We use the internal termination criterion xtol_rel
  terminator = trm("none")
  instance = OptimInstanceSingleCrit$new(
    objective = objective,
    search_space = search_space,
    terminator = terminator)


  optimizer = opt("nloptr", algorithm = "NLOPT_LN_BOBYQA")

  # Modifies the instance by reference
  optimizer$optimize(instance)

  # Returns best scoring evaluation
  instance$result

  # Allows access of data.table of full path of all evaluations
  as.data.table(instance$archive)
}
#>              x          y           timestamp batch_nr x_domain_x
#>          <num>      <num>              <POSc>    <int>      <num>
#>  1: -0.1597428 0.02551775 2024-02-29 15:32:30        1 -0.1597428
#>  2: -0.1597428 0.02551775 2024-02-29 15:32:30        2 -0.1597428
#>  3: -0.1597428 0.02551775 2024-02-29 15:32:30        3 -0.1597428
#>  4:  0.3402572 0.11577499 2024-02-29 15:32:30        4  0.3402572
#>  5: -0.6597428 0.43526050 2024-02-29 15:32:30        5 -0.6597428
#>  6:  0.0000000 0.00000000 2024-02-29 15:32:30        6  0.0000000
#>  7: -0.0500000 0.00250000 2024-02-29 15:32:30        7 -0.0500000
#>  8:  0.0050000 0.00002500 2024-02-29 15:32:30        8  0.0050000
#>  9: -0.0005000 0.00000025 2024-02-29 15:32:30        9 -0.0005000
#> 10:  0.0005000 0.00000025 2024-02-29 15:32:30       10  0.0005000
#> 11:  0.0000000 0.00000000 2024-02-29 15:32:30       11  0.0000000
# }