Reference guide¶
Toolbox overview¶
PyUNLocBoX is a convex optimization toolbox using proximal splitting methods. It is a port of the Matlab UNLocBoX toolbox.
The toolbox is organized around two classes hierarchies : the functions and the
solvers. Instantiated functions represent convex functions to optimize.
Instantiated solvers represent solving algorithms. The
pyunlocbox.solvers.solve()
solving function takes as parameters a
solver object and some function objects to actually solve the optimization
problem.
The pyunlocbox
package is divided into the following modules :
pyunlocbox.solvers
: problem solvers, implement the solvers class hierarchy and the solving functionpyunlocbox.functions
: functions to be passed to the solvers, implement the functions class hierarchy
Following is a typical usage example who solves an optimization problem composed by the sum of two convex functions. The functions and solver objects are first instantiated with the desired parameters. The problem is then solved by a call to the solving function.
>>> import pyunlocbox
>>> f1 = pyunlocbox.functions.norm_l2(y=[4, 5, 6, 7])
>>> f2 = pyunlocbox.functions.dummy()
>>> solver = pyunlocbox.solvers.forward_backward()
>>> ret = pyunlocbox.solvers.solve([f1, f2], [0, 0, 0, 0], solver, absTol=1e-5)
Solution found after 10 iterations :
objective function f(sol) = 7.460428e-09
last relative objective improvement : 1.624424e+03
stopping criterion : ABS_TOL
>>> ret['sol']
array([ 3.99996922, 4.99996153, 5.99995383, 6.99994614])
Functions module¶
This module implements function objects which are then passed to solvers. The
func
base class defines the interface whereas specialised classes who
inherit from it implement the methods. These classes include :
Solvers module¶
This module implements solver objects who minimize an objective function. Call
solve()
to solve your convex optimization problem using your instantiated
solver and functions objects. The solver
base class defines the
interface of all solver objects. The specialized solver objects inherit from
it and implement the class methods. The following solvers are included :
forward_backward
: Forward-backward proximal splitting algorithm.