CHGRD
Checks a user-supplied gradient of a function.
Required Arguments
FCN — User-supplied subroutine to evaluate the function of which the gradient will be checked. The usage is
CALL FCN (N, X, F), where
N – Length of X. (Input)
X – The point at which the function is evaluated. (Input)
X should not be changed by FCN.
F – The computed function value at the point X. (Output)
FCN must be declared EXTERNAL in the calling program.
GRAD — Vector of length N containing the estimated gradient at X. (Input)
X — Vector of length N containing the point at which the gradient is to be checked. (Input)
INFO — Integer vector of length N. (Output)
INFO(I) = 0 means the user-supplied gradient is a poor estimate of the numerical gradient at the point X(I).
INFO(I) = 1 means the user-supplied gradient is a good estimate of the numerical gradient at the point X(I).
INFO(I) = 2 means the user-supplied gradient disagrees with the numerical gradient at the point X(I), but it might be impossible to calculate the numerical gradient.
INFO(I) = 3 means the user-supplied gradient and the numerical gradient are both zero at X(I), and, therefore, the gradient should be rechecked at a different point.
Optional Arguments
N — Dimension of the problem. (Input)
Default: N = SIZE (X,1).
FORTRAN 90 Interface
Generic: CALL CHGRD (FCN, GRAD, X, INFO [])
Specific: The specific interface names are S_CHGRD and D_CHGRD.
FORTRAN 77 Interface
Single: CALL CHGRD (FCN, GRAD, N, X, INFO)
Double: The double precision name is DCHGRD.
Description
The routine CHGRD uses the following finite-difference formula to estimate the gradient of a function of n variables at x:
where hi = ɛ1/2 max{xi, 1/si} sign(xi), ɛ is the machine epsilon, ei is the i-th unit vector, and si is the scaling factor of the i-th variable.
The routine CHGRD checks the user-supplied gradient f(x) by comparing it with the finite-difference gradient g(x). If
where  = ɛ1/4, then (f(x))i, which is the i-th element of f(x), is declared correct; otherwise, CHGRD computes the bounds of calculation error and approximation error. When both bounds are too small to account for the difference, (f(x))i is reported as incorrect. In the case of a large error bound, CHGRD uses a nearly optimal stepsize to recompute gi(x) and reports that (f(x))i is correct if
Otherwise, (f(x))i is considered incorrect unless the error bound for the optimal step is greater than (f(x))i. In this case, the numeric gradient may be impossible to compute correctly. For more details, see Schnabel (1985).
Comments
1. Workspace may be explicitly provided, if desired, by use of C2GRD/DC2GRD. The reference is:
CALL C2GRD (FCN, GRAD, N, X, INFO, FX, XSCALE, EPSFCN, XNEW)
The additional arguments are as follows:
FX — The functional value at X.
XSCALE — Real vector of length N containing the diagonal scaling matrix.
EPSFCN — The relative “noise” of the function FCN.
XNEW — Real work vector of length N.
2. Informational errors
Type
Code
Description
4
1
The user-supplied gradient is a poor estimate of the numerical gradient.
Example
The user-supplied gradient of
at (625, 1, 3.125, 0.25) is checked where t = 2.125.
 
USE CHGRD_INT
USE WRIRN_INT
 
IMPLICIT NONE
! Declare variables
INTEGER N
PARAMETER (N=4)
!
INTEGER INFO(N)
REAL GRAD(N), X(N)
EXTERNAL DRIV, FCN
!
! Input values for point X
! X = (625.0, 1.0, 3.125, .25)
!
DATA X/625.0E0, 1.0E0, 3.125E0, 0.25E0/
!
CALL DRIV (N, X, GRAD)
!
CALL CHGRD (FCN, GRAD, X, INFO)
CALL WRIRN (’The information vector’, INFO, 1, N, 1)
!
END
!
SUBROUTINE FCN (N, X, FX)
INTEGER N
REAL X(N), FX
!
REAL EXP
INTRINSIC EXP
!
FX = X(1) + X(2)*EXP(-1.0E0*(2.125E0-X(3))**2/X(4))
RETURN
END
!
SUBROUTINE DRIV (N, X, GRAD)
INTEGER N
REAL X(N), GRAD(N)
!
REAL EXP
INTRINSIC EXP
!
GRAD(1) = 1.0E0
GRAD(2) = EXP(-1.0E0*(2.125E0-X(3))**2/X(4))
GRAD(3) = X(2)*EXP(-1.0E0*(2.125E0-X(3))**2/X(4))*2.0E0/X(4)* &
(2.125-X(3))
GRAD(4) = X(2)*EXP(-1.0E0*(2.125E0-X(3))**2/X(4))* &
(2.125E0-X(3))**2/(X(4)*X(4))
RETURN
END
Output
 
The information vector
1 2 3 4
1 1 1 1
Published date: 03/19/2020
Last modified date: 03/19/2020