<div dir="auto">Tao does not support --with-scalar-type=complex</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il Mar 14 Apr 2020, 22:09 Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 2:44 PM Sajid Ali <<a href="mailto:sajidsyed2021@u.northwestern.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sajidsyed2021@u.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Hong, <br><br></div>Apologies for creating unnecessary confusion by continuing the old thread instead of creating a new one. <br><br></div><div>While I looked into converting the complex PDE formulation to a real valued formulation in the past hoping for better performance, my concern now is with TAO being incompatible with complex scalars. I would've preferred to keep the complex PDE formulation as is (given that I spent some time tuning it and it works well now) for cost function and gradient evaluation while using TAO for the outer optimization loop. <br><br></div><div>Using TAO has the obvious benefit of defining a multi objective cost function, parametrized as a fit to a series of measurements and a set of regularizers while not having to explicitly worry about differentiating the regularizer or have to think about implementing a good optimization scheme. But if it converting the complex formulation to a real formulation would mean a loss of well conditioned forward solve (and increase in solving time itself), I was wondering if it would be better to keep the complex PDE formulation and write an optimization loop in PETSc while defining the regularizer via a cost integrand.<br></div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What exactly is the problem with TAO and complex? Is it only for some methods?</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank You, <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Sajid Ali | PhD Candidate<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Applied Physics<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Northwestern University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://s-sajid-ali.github.io" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">s-sajid-ali.github.io</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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