{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "0", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Solving constrained optimization problems\n", "\n", "---\n", "\n", "In this example, we consider the following constrained optimization problem:\n", "\n", "$$\n", "\\begin{array}{r c}\n", "\\text{maximize } & a + b + c \\\\\n", "\\text{subject to } & 2a + 3b \\leq 45 \\\\\n", " & 5a + 2c \\leq 75 \\\\\n", " & 3b + c \\leq 50 \\\\\n", " & -100 \\leq a \\leq 100 \\\\\n", " & -100 \\leq b \\leq 100 \\\\\n", " & -100 \\leq c \\leq 100 \\\\\n", "\\end{array}\n", "$$\n", "\n", "We will now solve this optimization problem using:\n", "\n", "- Evolutionary computation (using PGPE with constraint penalties)\n", "- Penalty method (using gradient-based search with ClipUp, with penalty multipliers iteratively incremented)\n", "- Interior points method (with the help of the functional API of PyTorch and the log-barrier function of EvoTorch)\n", "\n", "This notebook demonstrates:\n", "\n", "- How to use functional algorithms of EvoTorch (evolutionary and gradient-based)\n", "- How to use constraint penalization utilities of EvoTorch and use them as building blocks for constrained optimization, both for evolutionary and for gradient-based optimization" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "1", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "from evotorch.algorithms.functional import pgpe, pgpe_ask, pgpe_tell, clipup, clipup_ask, clipup_tell\n", "from evotorch.decorators import expects_ndim\n", "from evotorch.tools import penalty, log_barrier\n", "\n", "import torch\n", "import torch.func as tfunc\n", "from typing import Union\n", "from functools import partial\n", "\n", "from matplotlib import pyplot as plt\n", "import numpy as np\n", "\n", "from datetime import datetime" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "2", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Fitness function implementation\n", "\n", "We begin by implementing our fitness function.\n", "This fitness function has two arguments:\n", "\n", "- `penalty_multiplier`: Expected as a scalar, this value represents the multiplier for the negative penalty quantities that will be added onto the fitness. Higher values for `penalty_multiplier` will result in stronger penalizations.\n", "- `x`: A 1-dimensional tensor, that represents the solution that will be evaluated.\n", "\n", "Notice how the fitness function below is decorated by `@expects_ndim(0, 1)`. This decorators declares that the first positional argument (`penalty_multipliers`) expects a 0-dimensional tensor, and the second positional argument (`x`) expects a 1-dimensional tensor. If any of these arguments are given with more dimensions, those extra dimensions will be considered as batch dimensions by the decorated function. This auto-batching feature is very helpful, because it allows the decorated function `f` to work with not just a single solution, but with a population of solutions (or a batch of populations of solutions) when `x` is given as an n-dimensional tensor with `n>1`. We will use this auto-batching feature with PGPE." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "3", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "@expects_ndim(0, 1)\n", "def f(penalty_multiplier: torch.Tensor, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n", " a = x[0]\n", " b = x[1]\n", " c = x[2]\n", " objective = a + b + c\n", "\n", " constraints = [\n", " [(2 * a) + (3 * b), \"<=\", 45],\n", " [(5 * a) + (2 * c), \"<=\", 75],\n", " [(3 * b) + c, \"<=\", 50],\n", " [a, \">=\", -100],\n", " [a, \"<=\", 100],\n", " [b, \">=\", -100],\n", " [b, \"<=\", 100],\n", " [c, \">=\", -100],\n", " [c, \"<=\", 100],\n", " ]\n", "\n", " penalty_amount = 0.0\n", " for lhs, op, rhs in constraints:\n", " # For each constraint, we add a penalty (if there is violation)\n", " penalty_amount = penalty_amount + penalty(\n", " # Left-hand-side, comparison operator, and the right-hand-side:\n", " lhs,\n", " op,\n", " rhs,\n", " #\n", " # Because this is a function we wish to maximize, the penalties should be in the opposite direction.\n", " # Therefore, we declare the sign of the penalties as \"-\", making them negative quantities:\n", " penalty_sign=\"-\",\n", " #\n", " # There will be a penalty in the form: (linear * amount_of_violation)\n", " linear=1.0,\n", " #\n", " # There will also be a penalty in the form: (amount_of_violation ** exp)\n", " exp=2.0,\n", " #\n", " # The exponential penalties are not allowed to exceed this amount:\n", " exp_inf=5000.0,\n", " #\n", " # There will also be a penalty in the form: (step if amount_of_violation > 0 else 0)\n", " step=10000.0,\n", " )\n", "\n", " # Scale the accumulated penalty by `penalty_multiplier`, add it onto the objective, then return it\n", " return objective + (penalty_amount * penalty_multiplier)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "4", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "---\n", "\n", "## Evolutionary computation" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "5", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "As the evolutionary algorithm, we use the functional `pgpe`." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "6", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pgpe_state = pgpe(\n", " # We want to maximize the evaluation results:\n", " objective_sense=\"max\",\n", "\n", " # The center point of the initial search distribution is given as 0 vector:\n", " center_init=torch.zeros(3),\n", "\n", " # Learning rates for the center and the standard deviation of the\n", " # search distribution:\n", " center_learning_rate=0.1,\n", " stdev_learning_rate=0.1,\n", "\n", " # The ranking method is \"centered\", which ranks the worst solution as\n", " # -0.5, and the best solution as +0.5:\n", " ranking_method=\"centered\",\n", "\n", " # We use the ClipUp optimizer:\n", " optimizer=\"clipup\",\n", "\n", " # In the case of this example problem, we use the following max_speed:\n", " optimizer_config={\"max_speed\": 1.0},\n", "\n", " # The standard deviation for the initial search distribution:\n", " stdev_init=100.0,\n", "\n", " # Relative maximum allowed change for the standard deviation.\n", " # 0.2 means that a standard deviation value cannot change more than 20%\n", " # of its original value.\n", " stdev_max_change=0.2,\n", "\n", " # Minimum standard deviation value. The standard deviation is cannot shrink\n", " # to values lower than this:\n", " stdev_min=0.01,\n", ")\n", "\n", "pgpe_state" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "7", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Main loop of the evolutionary computation:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "8", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "num_generations = 1000 # For how many iterations will PGPE work\n", "\n", "time_interval = 1 # With this period, we will print the status\n", "last_report_time = datetime.now()\n", "\n", "# Initialize the variables that will store the best solution and the best evaluation result\n", "pgpe_best_eval = float(\"-inf\")\n", "pgpe_best = None\n", "\n", "for generation in range(1, 1 + num_generations):\n", " # Ask for a population from PGPE\n", " population = pgpe_ask(pgpe_state, popsize=1000)\n", "\n", " # Compute the fitnesses\n", " fitnesses = f(1, population)\n", "\n", " # Inform PGPE of the latest fitnesses, and get its next state\n", " pgpe_state = pgpe_tell(pgpe_state, population, fitnesses)\n", "\n", " # From the most recent population and fitnesses, update the best solution and the best evaluation result\n", " pop_best_index = torch.argmax(fitnesses)\n", " pop_best = population[pop_best_index]\n", " pop_best_eval = fitnesses[pop_best_index]\n", " if pop_best_eval > pgpe_best_eval:\n", " pgpe_best_eval = pop_best_eval\n", " pgpe_best = population[pop_best_index, :]\n", "\n", " # If it is time to report, print the status\n", " tnow = datetime.now()\n", " if ((tnow - last_report_time).total_seconds() > time_interval) or (generation == num_generations):\n", " print(\"best solution:\", pgpe_best, \"best evaluation:\", pgpe_best_eval)\n", " last_report_time = tnow" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "9", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Best solution:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "10", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pgpe_best, pgpe_best_eval" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "11", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "---\n", "\n", "## Penalty method\n", "\n", "As an alternative to evolutionary computation, we now use the gradient-based penalty method below.\n", "The main points of the penalty method are as follows:\n", "\n", "- Use a gradient-based search on a fitness function augmented by penalties (i.e. by penalty terms that are computed according to how much the constraints are penalized)\n", "- Periodically increase the multipliers for the penalty terms (when the penalty multiplier is increased, we use the previous optimization's solution as the new starting point)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "12", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# Try with these penalty multipliers, ordered from small to large:\n", "penalty_multipliers = [0.1, 1, 4]\n", "\n", "# For each penalty multiplier, we do the search for this number of iterations:\n", "num_iterations = 1000\n", "\n", "# Initialize the variables that will store the best solution and the best evaluation result\n", "clipup_best_eval = float(\"-inf\")\n", "clipup_best = None\n", "\n", "# Initialize the search point as a 0 vector:\n", "x = torch.zeros(3)\n", "\n", "for penalty_multiplier in penalty_multipliers:\n", " # Initialize the ClipUp algorithm for the currently considered penalty multiplier\n", " clipup_state = clipup(center_init=x, center_learning_rate=0.1, max_speed=1.0)\n", "\n", " # Optimization loop for the current penalty multiplier\n", " for iteration in range(1, 1 + num_iterations):\n", " # Ask ClipUp for the current search point\n", " x = clipup_ask(clipup_state)\n", "\n", " # Compute the gradient and the fitness\n", " gradient, fitness = tfunc.grad_and_value(partial(f, penalty_multiplier))(x)\n", "\n", " # Update the best-known solution so far\n", " if fitness > clipup_best_eval:\n", " clipup_best_eval = fitness\n", " clipup_best = x\n", "\n", " # Inform ClipUp of the latest gradient, and get its next state\n", " clipup_state = clipup_tell(clipup_state, follow_grad=gradient)\n", "\n", " # After each optimization loop, print the best known solution\n", " print(\"best solution:\", clipup_best, \" best evaluation:\", clipup_best_eval)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "13", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "---\n", "\n", "## Interior points method" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "14", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Although, as its name implies, the main focus of EvoTorch is evolutionary computation, we now demonstrate that it is possible to implement an interior points method by combining:\n", "\n", "- `torch.func.grad`\n", "- `torch.func.hessian`\n", "- `evotorch.tools.log_barrier`\n", "\n", "The `grad(...)` and `hessian(...)` functions are basic building blocks for implementing a Newton-Raphson search. We penalize proximities to the infeasible regions with the help of `log_barrier(...)`.\n", "\n", "We begin with a modified implementation of our fitness function, where `evotorch.tools.penalty(...)` are replaced by `evotorch.tools.log_barrier(...)`." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "15", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "@expects_ndim(0, 1)\n", "def f_with_log_barriers(sharpness: torch.Tensor, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n", " a = x[0]\n", " b = x[1]\n", " c = x[2]\n", " objective = a + b + c\n", "\n", " constraints = [\n", " [(2 * a) + (3 * b), \"<=\", 45],\n", " [(5 * a) + (2 * c), \"<=\", 75],\n", " [(3 * b) + c, \"<=\", 50],\n", " [a, \">=\", -100],\n", " [a, \"<=\", 100],\n", " [b, \">=\", -100],\n", " [b, \"<=\", 100],\n", " [c, \">=\", -100],\n", " [c, \"<=\", 100],\n", " ]\n", "\n", " penalty_amount = 0.0\n", " for lhs, op, rhs in constraints:\n", " penalty_amount = penalty_amount + log_barrier(lhs, op, rhs, penalty_sign=\"-\", sharpness=sharpness)\n", "\n", " # Return the objective with the log-barrier penalties added onto it.\n", " # Notice that in the end, we are inverting the sign of the returned quantity.\n", " # This will allow us to implement the Newton-Raphson's search method from a minimization perspective.\n", " return -(objective + penalty_amount)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "16", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# Start the search from the 0 vector:\n", "x = torch.zeros(3)\n", "\n", "# Try with these sharpness values for the log barrier, ordered from small to large:\n", "sharpness_values = [1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000]\n", "\n", "# Learning rate for when taking a step\n", "learning_rate = 0.1\n", "\n", "# An identity matrix multiplied by the constant below will be added to the Hessian matrix.\n", "# When a diagonal element of the Hessian matrix is 0 because of numerical issues, this trick will allow the\n", "# algorithm to still take a step.\n", "I_multiplier = 0.01" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "17", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# With this interval (in seconds), we wish to report the status\n", "reporting_interval = 1\n", "last_report_time = datetime.now()\n", "\n", "# The interior points method will run for this amount of iterations:\n", "num_iterations = 200\n", "\n", "for sharpness in sharpness_values:\n", " print(\"sharpness:\", sharpness)\n", " print()\n", "\n", " for iteration in range(1, 1 + num_iterations):\n", " # Compute the gradient and the solution cost\n", " g, cost = tfunc.grad_and_value(partial(f_with_log_barriers, sharpness))(x)\n", "\n", " # Compute the Hessian matrix\n", " H = tfunc.hessian(partial(f_with_log_barriers, sharpness))(x)\n", "\n", " # Add the identity matrix multiplied by a constant to the Hessian\n", " H = H + (I_multiplier * torch.eye(H.shape[-1]))\n", "\n", " # Take the inverse of the Hessian matrix\n", " invH = torch.linalg.inv(H)\n", "\n", " # Move the center point\n", " x = x - learning_rate * (invH @ g)\n", "\n", " # If it is time to report, print the status\n", " tnow = datetime.now()\n", " if (tnow - last_report_time).total_seconds() > reporting_interval:\n", " print(\"Iteration:\", iteration, \" Gradient norm:\", torch.linalg.norm(g), \" Solution cost:\", cost)\n", " last_report_time = tnow\n", "\n", " # Print the current search point\n", " print()\n", " print(\"x:\", x)\n", " print()" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.9.18" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 5 }