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using System;
namespace IStation.Numerics.Differentiation
{
///
/// Class for evaluating the Hessian of a smooth continuously differentiable function using finite differences.
/// By default, a central 3-point method is used.
///
public class NumericalHessian
{
///
/// Number of function evaluations.
///
public int FunctionEvaluations => _df.Evaluations;
private readonly NumericalDerivative _df;
///
/// Creates a numerical Hessian object with a three point central difference method.
///
public NumericalHessian() : this(3, 1) { }
///
/// Creates a numerical Hessian with a specified differentiation scheme.
///
/// Number of points for Hessian evaluation.
/// Center point for differentiation.
public NumericalHessian(int points, int center)
{
_df = new NumericalDerivative(points, center);
}
///
/// Evaluates the Hessian of the scalar univariate function f at points x.
///
/// Scalar univariate function handle.
/// Point at which to evaluate Hessian.
/// Hessian tensor.
public double[] Evaluate(Func f, double x)
{
return new[] { _df.EvaluateDerivative(f, x, 2) };
}
///
/// Evaluates the Hessian of a multivariate function f at points x.
///
///
/// This method of computing the Hessian is only valid for Lipschitz continuous functions.
/// The function mirrors the Hessian along the diagonal since d2f/dxdy = d2f/dydx for continuously differentiable functions.
///
/// Multivariate function handle.>
/// Points at which to evaluate Hessian.>
/// Hessian tensor.
public double[,] Evaluate(Func f, double[] x)
{
var hessian = new double[x.Length, x.Length];
// Compute diagonal elements
for (var row = 0; row < x.Length; row++)
{
hessian[row, row] = _df.EvaluatePartialDerivative(f, x, row, 2);
}
// Compute non-diagonal elements
for (var row = 0; row < x.Length; row++)
{
for (var col = 0; col < row; col++)
{
var mixedPartial = _df.EvaluateMixedPartialDerivative(f, x, new[] { row, col }, 2);
hessian[row, col] = mixedPartial;
hessian[col, row] = mixedPartial;
}
}
return hessian;
}
///
/// Resets the function evaluation counter for the Hessian.
///
public void ResetFunctionEvaluations()
{
_df.ResetEvaluations();
}
}
}