Multiple outputs from FMINSEARCH function
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For FMINSEARCH in combination with a function MYFUN one could use:
[X,fval,exitflag,output]= fminsearch(@(X) myfun(X),X,options);
Normally the output of MYFUN is minimized through modification of the paramter(s) X. However if MYFUN is able to produce multiple outputs i.e.:
[ouput1,ouput2,ouput3,...,ouputN]=myfun(X)
It seems that FMINSEARCH aims to minimize ouput1 by default, which is fortunately what I need, and, following optimization FMINSEARCH outputs fval which is equivalent to the value of output1 for the best case of X. However I am also interested in the other outputs.
How can the other outputs be obtained? Function evaluations take a VERY long time so I'd like to avoid rerunning the problem.
Kevin
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Sean de Wolski
on 8 Feb 2012
What you are describing is a multiobjective optimization problem. In the Optimization toolbox, fgoalattain will be your friend. If you have the Global Optimization Toolbox, gamultiobj may also be your friend.
Seth DeLand
on 8 Feb 2012
As long as myfun doesn't take a long time to evaluate, the simplest thing to do would be to call myfun again after the optimization with the optimal X that FMINSEARCH found.
It isn't guaranteed that the last time FMINSEARCH called myfun during the optimization, that it did so with the optimal X. The best X could have come from a previous evaluation. So it's a good idea to evaluate the function one final time to call it with the exact X that was returned.
John D'Errico
on 8 Feb 2012
By making one last call to MYFUN, with the converged values of your optimization.
If you really wanted to optimize some other output of MYFUN, this too is trivial to accomplish. Just put a wrapper function around MYFUN, selecting out only the output you want to optimize.
I think you are looking too hard for a solution to something obtainable by simple means.
Alan Weiss
on 8 Feb 2012
I believe that Loren Shure's "memoize" post could be adapted to your problem: http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2006/02/08/use-nested-functions-to-memoize-costly-functions/
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