Sliced variable issue - variable cannot be classified

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Dear All,
I'm trying to use parallel workers in an optimization problem but I cannot define X and Y as sliced variables. X contains the population, Y contains the fitness values. As the error message says: variable X & Y in a parfor cannot be classified.
First I define X, (it has to be outside the parfor loop otherwise I get new X-es in every single loop); than parfor follows:
parfor t=1:T
TmpZ=Func(Z(1,:));TmpX=Func(X(t,:));
if TmpZ < TmpX
X(t,:)=Z(1,:); Y(t,1)=TmpZ;
else
X(t,:)=X(t,:); Y(t,1)=TmpX;
end
end
Thanks

Accepted Answer

Edric Ellis
Edric Ellis on 7 May 2019
I augmented your code a tiny bit to make it executable, and it works fine in MATLAB R2019a, and I checked all the way back to R2013b...
T = 7;
Func = @sum;
Z = rand(1, 3);
X = rand(T, 3);
parfor t=1:T
TmpZ=Func(Z(1,:));TmpX=Func(X(t,:));
if TmpZ < TmpX
X(t,:)=Z(1,:); Y(t,1)=TmpZ;
else
X(t,:)=X(t,:); Y(t,1)=TmpX;
end
end

More Answers (1)

Axel Groniewsky
Axel Groniewsky on 7 May 2019
Dear Edric,
Thank you for dealing with my question. This part of the code runs fine yet, the error message says that 'The variable X in a parfor cannot be classified.' The other part of the code I have inside the parfor loop is:
R=randperm(T);
R(find(R==t))=[];
V=X(R(1),:)+F*(X(R(2),:)-X(R(3),:));
I do not alter X rather creating V. But you are right, without V it runs smoothly. Is there a way to define V in a parfor supported way?
Thanks!
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Edric Ellis
Edric Ellis on 7 May 2019
This code is not order-independent, and cannot run inside parfor. Basically, the problem is that you're accessing elements of X that might or might not yet have been updated.
Axel Groniewsky
Axel Groniewsky on 8 May 2019
Another idea I tried is to save X after every iteration and load it before V vector is calculated. This way I end up having Transparency violation error. Is there another way you can think of which could dissolve this issue and let me use population-based metaheuristics with parfor? (I already tried the built-in GA but my own codes provide more accurate results.)
Thanks!

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