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Documentation for MINPACK subroutine LMDIF1
Double precision version
Argonne National Laboratory
Burton S. Garbow, Kenneth E. Hillstrom, Jorge J. More
March 1980
1. Purpose.
The purpose of LMDIF1 is to minimize the sum of the squares of M
nonlinear functions in N variables by a modification of the
Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. This is done by using the more
general least-squares solver LMDIF. The user must provide a
subroutine which calculates the functions. The Jacobian is then
calculated by a forward-difference approximation.
2. Subroutine and type statements.
SUBROUTINE LMDIF1(FCN,M,N,X,FVEC,TOL,INFO,IWA,WA,LWA)
INTEGER M,N,INFO,LWA
INTEGER IWA(N)
DOUBLE PRECISION TOL
DOUBLE PRECISION X(N),FVEC(M),WA(LWA)
EXTERNAL FCN
3. Parameters.
Parameters designated as input parameters must be specified on
entry to LMDIF1 and are not changed on exit, while parameters
designated as output parameters need not be specified on entry
and are set to appropriate values on exit from LMDIF1.
FCN is the name of the user-supplied subroutine which calculates
the functions. FCN must be declared in an EXTERNAL statement
in the user calling program, and should be written as follows.
SUBROUTINE FCN(M,N,X,FVEC,IFLAG)
INTEGER M,N,IFLAG
DOUBLE PRECISION X(N),FVEC(M)
----------
CALCULATE THE FUNCTIONS AT X AND
RETURN THIS VECTOR IN FVEC.
----------
RETURN
END
The value of IFLAG should not be changed by FCN unless the
user wants to terminate execution of LMDIF1. In this case set
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IFLAG to a negative integer.
M is a positive integer input variable set to the number of
functions.
N is a positive integer input variable set to the number of
variables. N must not exceed M.
X is an array of length N. On input X must contain an initial
estimate of the solution vector. On output X contains the
final estimate of the solution vector.
FVEC is an output array of length M which contains the functions
evaluated at the output X.
TOL is a nonnegative input variable. Termination occurs when
the algorithm estimates either that the relative error in the
sum of squares is at most TOL or that the relative error
between X and the solution is at most TOL. Section 4 contains
more details about TOL.
INFO is an integer output variable. If the user has terminated
execution, INFO is set to the (negative) value of IFLAG. See
description of FCN. Otherwise, INFO is set as follows.
INFO = 0 Improper input parameters.
INFO = 1 Algorithm estimates that the relative error in the
sum of squares is at most TOL.
INFO = 2 Algorithm estimates that the relative error between
X and the solution is at most TOL.
INFO = 3 Conditions for INFO = 1 and INFO = 2 both hold.
INFO = 4 FVEC is orthogonal to the columns of the Jacobian to
machine precision.
INFO = 5 Number of calls to FCN has reached or exceeded
200*(N+1).
INFO = 6 TOL is too small. No further reduction in the sum
of squares is possible.
INFO = 7 TOL is too small. No further improvement in the
approximate solution X is possible.
Sections 4 and 5 contain more details about INFO.
IWA is an integer work array of length N.
WA is a work array of length LWA.
LWA is a positive integer input variable not less than
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M*N+5*N+M.
4. Successful completion.
The accuracy of LMDIF1 is controlled by the convergence parame-
ter TOL. This parameter is used in tests which make three types
of comparisons between the approximation X and a solution XSOL.
LMDIF1 terminates when any of the tests is satisfied. If TOL is
less than the machine precision (as defined by the MINPACK func-
tion DPMPAR(1)), then LMDIF1 only attempts to satisfy the test
defined by the machine precision. Further progress is not usu-
ally possible. Unless high precision solutions are required,
the recommended value for TOL is the square root of the machine
precision.
The tests assume that the functions are reasonably well behaved.
If this condition is not satisfied, then LMDIF1 may incorrectly
indicate convergence. The validity of the answer can be
checked, for example, by rerunning LMDIF1 with a tighter toler-
ance.
First convergence test. If ENORM(Z) denotes the Euclidean norm
of a vector Z, then this test attempts to guarantee that
ENORM(FVEC) .LE. (1+TOL)*ENORM(FVECS),
where FVECS denotes the functions evaluated at XSOL. If this
condition is satisfied with TOL = 10**(-K), then the final
residual norm ENORM(FVEC) has K significant decimal digits and
INFO is set to 1 (or to 3 if the second test is also satis-
fied).
Second convergence test. If D is a diagonal matrix (implicitly
generated by LMDIF1) whose entries contain scale factors for
the variables, then this test attempts to guarantee that
ENORM(D*(X-XSOL)) .LE. TOL*ENORM(D*XSOL).
If this condition is satisfied with TOL = 10**(-K), then the
larger components of D*X have K significant decimal digits and
INFO is set to 2 (or to 3 if the first test is also satis-
fied). There is a danger that the smaller components of D*X
may have large relative errors, but the choice of D is such
that the accuracy of the components of X is usually related to
their sensitivity.
Third convergence test. This test is satisfied when FVEC is
orthogonal to the columns of the Jacobian to machine preci-
sion. There is no clear relationship between this test and
the accuracy of LMDIF1, and furthermore, the test is equally
well satisfied at other critical points, namely maximizers and
saddle points. Also, errors in the functions (see below) may
result in the test being satisfied at a point not close to the
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minimum. Therefore, termination caused by this test
(INFO = 4) should be examined carefully.
5. Unsuccessful completion.
Unsuccessful termination of LMDIF1 can be due to improper input
parameters, arithmetic interrupts, an excessive number of func-
tion evaluations, or errors in the functions.
Improper input parameters. INFO is set to 0 if N .LE. 0, or
M .LT. N, or TOL .LT. 0.D0, or LWA .LT. M*N+5*N+M.
Arithmetic interrupts. If these interrupts occur in the FCN
subroutine during an early stage of the computation, they may
be caused by an unacceptable choice of X by LMDIF1. In this
case, it may be possible to remedy the situation by not evalu-
ating the functions here, but instead setting the components
of FVEC to numbers that exceed those in the initial FVEC,
thereby indirectly reducing the step length. The step length
can be more directly controlled by using instead LMDIF, which
includes in its calling sequence the step-length-governing
parameter FACTOR.
Excessive number of function evaluations. If the number of
calls to FCN reaches 200*(N+1), then this indicates that the
routine is converging very slowly as measured by the progress
of FVEC, and INFO is set to 5. In this case, it may be help-
ful to restart LMDIF1, thereby forcing it to disregard old
(and possibly harmful) information.
Errors in the functions. The choice of step length in the for-
ward-difference approximation to the Jacobian assumes that the
relative errors in the functions are of the order of the
machine precision. If this is not the case, LMDIF1 may fail
(usually with INFO = 4). The user should then use LMDIF
instead, or one of the programs which require the analytic
Jacobian (LMDER1 and LMDER).
6. Characteristics of the algorithm.
LMDIF1 is a modification of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm.
Two of its main characteristics involve the proper use of
implicitly scaled variables and an optimal choice for the cor-
rection. The use of implicitly scaled variables achieves scale
invariance of LMDIF1 and limits the size of the correction in
any direction where the functions are changing rapidly. The
optimal choice of the correction guarantees (under reasonable
conditions) global convergence from starting points far from the
solution and a fast rate of convergence for problems with small
residuals.
Timing. The time required by LMDIF1 to solve a given problem
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depends on M and N, the behavior of the functions, the accu-
racy requested, and the starting point. The number of arith-
metic operations needed by LMDIF1 is about N**3 to process
each evaluation of the functions (one call to FCN) and
M*(N**2) to process each approximation to the Jacobian (N
calls to FCN). Unless FCN can be evaluated quickly, the tim-
ing of LMDIF1 will be strongly influenced by the time spent in
FCN.
Storage. LMDIF1 requires M*N + 2*M + 6*N double precision sto-
rage locations and N integer storage locations, in addition to
the storage required by the program. There are no internally
declared storage arrays.
7. Subprograms required.
USER-supplied ...... FCN
MINPACK-supplied ... DPMPAR,ENORM,FDJAC2,LMDIF,LMPAR,
QRFAC,QRSOLV
FORTRAN-supplied ... DABS,DMAX1,DMIN1,DSQRT,MOD
8. References.
Jorge J. More, The Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm, Implementation
and Theory. Numerical Analysis, G. A. Watson, editor.
Lecture Notes in Mathematics 630, Springer-Verlag, 1977.
9. Example.
The problem is to determine the values of x(1), x(2), and x(3)
which provide the best fit (in the least squares sense) of
x(1) + u(i)/(v(i)*x(2) + w(i)*x(3)), i = 1, 15
to the data
y = (0.14,0.18,0.22,0.25,0.29,0.32,0.35,0.39,
0.37,0.58,0.73,0.96,1.34,2.10,4.39),
where u(i) = i, v(i) = 16 - i, and w(i) = min(u(i),v(i)). The
i-th component of FVEC is thus defined by
y(i) - (x(1) + u(i)/(v(i)*x(2) + w(i)*x(3))).
C **********
C
C DRIVER FOR LMDIF1 EXAMPLE.
C DOUBLE PRECISION VERSION
C
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C **********
INTEGER J,M,N,INFO,LWA,NWRITE
INTEGER IWA(3)
DOUBLE PRECISION TOL,FNORM
DOUBLE PRECISION X(3),FVEC(15),WA(75)
DOUBLE PRECISION ENORM,DPMPAR
EXTERNAL FCN
C
C LOGICAL OUTPUT UNIT IS ASSUMED TO BE NUMBER 6.
C
DATA NWRITE /6/
C
M = 15
N = 3
C
C THE FOLLOWING STARTING VALUES PROVIDE A ROUGH FIT.
C
X(1) = 1.D0
X(2) = 1.D0
X(3) = 1.D0
C
LWA = 75
C
C SET TOL TO THE SQUARE ROOT OF THE MACHINE PRECISION.
C UNLESS HIGH PRECISION SOLUTIONS ARE REQUIRED,
C THIS IS THE RECOMMENDED SETTING.
C
TOL = DSQRT(DPMPAR(1))
C
CALL LMDIF1(FCN,M,N,X,FVEC,TOL,INFO,IWA,WA,LWA)
FNORM = ENORM(M,FVEC)
WRITE (NWRITE,1000) FNORM,INFO,(X(J),J=1,N)
STOP
1000 FORMAT (5X,31H FINAL L2 NORM OF THE RESIDUALS,D15.7 //
* 5X,15H EXIT PARAMETER,16X,I10 //
* 5X,27H FINAL APPROXIMATE SOLUTION // 5X,3D15.7)
C
C LAST CARD OF DRIVER FOR LMDIF1 EXAMPLE.
C
END
SUBROUTINE FCN(M,N,X,FVEC,IFLAG)
INTEGER M,N,IFLAG
DOUBLE PRECISION X(N),FVEC(M)
C
C SUBROUTINE FCN FOR LMDIF1 EXAMPLE.
C
INTEGER I
DOUBLE PRECISION TMP1,TMP2,TMP3
DOUBLE PRECISION Y(15)
DATA Y(1),Y(2),Y(3),Y(4),Y(5),Y(6),Y(7),Y(8),
* Y(9),Y(10),Y(11),Y(12),Y(13),Y(14),Y(15)
* /1.4D-1,1.8D-1,2.2D-1,2.5D-1,2.9D-1,3.2D-1,3.5D-1,3.9D-1,
* 3.7D-1,5.8D-1,7.3D-1,9.6D-1,1.34D0,2.1D0,4.39D0/
C
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DO 10 I = 1, 15
TMP1 = I
TMP2 = 16 - I
TMP3 = TMP1
IF (I .GT. 8) TMP3 = TMP2
FVEC(I) = Y(I) - (X(1) + TMP1/(X(2)*TMP2 + X(3)*TMP3))
10 CONTINUE
RETURN
C
C LAST CARD OF SUBROUTINE FCN.
C
END
Results obtained with different compilers or machines
may be slightly different.
FINAL L2 NORM OF THE RESIDUALS 0.9063596D-01
EXIT PARAMETER 1
FINAL APPROXIMATE SOLUTION
0.8241057D-01 0.1133037D+01 0.2343695D+01