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bug #63708: [octave forge] (optim) lsqnonlin cannot take x0 with arbitrary size

Submitter:  Nicholas Jankowski <nrjank>
Submitted:  Wed 25 Jan 2023 10:50:47 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Package Severity:  2 - Minor
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Matlab Compatibility
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Wed 25 Jan 2023 11:47:24 PM UTC, comment #1: 
Arun Giridhar <arungiridhar>
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Wed 25 Jan 2023 10:50:47 PM UTC, original submission:  

as initially reported over on stackoverflow [1], code that runs in Matlab's lsqnonlin throws a nonconformant argument error in octave with optim 1.6.2.  if the supplied function expects the input to be anything other than a column vector, it will either error or produce erroneous outputs because internally the variable is always passed as a column vector. This can cause functions that assume either matrix operations or broadcasting to fail.

According to the current matlab help for lsqnonlin [2], it determines from the supplied x0 what the shape of the input to F should be.  Have not checked, but I suspect this is a change in matlab behavior. A quick search for an archived older version of the help [3] shows it mandated a vector, and that F should be a vector-valued function returning the same size vector, but doesn't mandate orientation.


Not a minimal example, but example from stackoverflow (input data file 'hd' attached):


pkg load optim
D = dlmread('hd', ';'); % raw data
bkg = D(1,2:end); % 4 sensors bkg
x = D(2:end,1); % input signal
Y = D(2:end,2:end); % 4 sensors reposnse
W = 1./Y; % weights
b0 = [7 .04 .01 .1 .5 2 1]; % educated guess for start the fit
%% model function
F = @(b) ((bkg + (b(1) - bkg).*(1-exp(-(b(2:5).*x).^b(6))).^b(7)) - Y) .* W;
opts = optimset("Display", "iter");
lb = [5 .001 .001 .001 .001 .01 1];
ub = [];
[b, resnorm, residual, exitflag, output, lambda, Jacob] = lsqnonlin(F,b0,lb,ub,opts)


which results in:


>> [b, resnorm, residual, exitflag, output, lambda, Jacob] = lsqnonlin(F,b0,lb,ub,opts)
error: product: nonconformant arguments (op1 is 4x1, op2 is 34x1)
error: called from
    @<anonymous> at line 1 column 72
    __maybe_limit_arg_count__>@<anonymous> at line 30 column 26
    __nonlin_residmin__ at line 310 column 9
    nonlin_residmin at line 99 column 25
    lsqnonlin at line 264 column 21


stepping through the functions, lsqnonlin line 195 recasts the input x0 as x0(:), and later __nonlin_residmin__ does call the supplied function with that column vector.

For compatibility it looks like we should change this, but it's unclear what else if anything might have to change to accommodate arbitrary x0 shape.  At a minumum if I just remove the (:) i then get an error:

error: initial parameters must be either a structure or a column vector
error: called from
    __nonlin_residmin__ at line 102 column 7
    nonlin_residmin at line 99 column 25
    lsqnonlin at line 264 column 21

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75229081/non-linear-fit-gnu-octave

[2] https://www.mathworks.com/help/optim/ug/lsqnonlin.html#buuhch7_sep_shared-x0

[3] http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/local-apps/matlabhelp/toolbox/optim/lsqnonlin.html

Nicholas Jankowski <nrjank>
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