[petsc-users] Support for full jacobianP in TSSetIJacobianP

Sun Dec 20 15:28:48 CST 2020

Hello Hong,

Thank you. My apologies for rushing to blame the API instead of looking at my own code. I’ve put together a minimum example in petsc4py that I am attaching to this email. Here I am solving the simple ODE: c * xdot = b * x(t) with initial condition x(0) = a and the cost function J equal to the solution at the final time “T”, i.e. J = x(T). The analytical solution is x(t) = a * exp(b/c *t). In the example, there is the option to calculate the derivatives w.r.t “b” or “c” in the keyword argument “deriv” passed to “SimpleODE”. For “b”, the solver returns the correct derivatives (checked with the analytical expression), but this does not work for “c”. I might be building the wrong jacobian that I pass to “setIJacobianP”. Could you please take a look at it?

Thanks.
Miguel

From: "Zhang, Hong" <hongzhang at anl.gov>
Date: Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 10:02 AM
To: "Salazar De Troya, Miguel" <salazardetro1 at llnl.gov>
Cc: Satish Balay via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: [petsc-users] Support for full jacobianP in TSSetIJacobianP

On Dec 18, 2020, at 6:35 PM, Salazar De Troya, Miguel <salazardetro1 at llnl.gov<mailto:salazardetro1 at llnl.gov>> wrote:

Ok, I was not able to get such case to work in my firedrake-ts implementation. Maybe I am missing something in my code. I looked at the TSAdjoint paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.07696.pdf Equation 2.1 and at the adjoint method for the theta method (Equation 2.15) where the mass matrix is not differentiated w.r.t. the design parameter “p” and decided to ask the question.

For notational brevity, the formula used in the paper does not assume that the mass matrix depends on the parameters p. But it can be easily extended for this case.

Is the actual implementation different from what is in the paper?

The actual implementation is more general than the formula presented in the paper. Note that PETSc TS takes the ODE problem as F(U_t,U,P,t) = G(U,P,t) and does not ask for a mass matrix explicitly from users. When users provide IFunction, which is F(Udot,U,P,t), IJacobian (dF/dU) and IJacobianP (dF/dP) are needed by TSAdjoint to compute the sensitivities. Differentiating the mass matrix (more precisely, the term M*U_t ) is needed when you prepare the call back function IJacobianP. So if we have M(P)*U_t - f(t,U,P) in IFunction, IJacobianP should be M_P*U_t - f_P where U_t is provided by PETSc as an input argument.

Thanks,
Hong

Thanks
Miguel

From: "Zhang, Hong" <hongzhang at anl.gov<mailto:hongzhang at anl.gov>>
Date: Friday, December 18, 2020 at 3:11 PM
To: "Salazar De Troya, Miguel" <salazardetro1 at llnl.gov<mailto:salazardetro1 at llnl.gov>>
Cc: Satish Balay via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>>
Subject: Re: [petsc-users] Support for full jacobianP in TSSetIJacobianP

The current interface is general and should be applicable to this case as soon as users can provide IJacobianP, which is dF(Udot,U,P,t)/dP. Were you able to generate it in firedrake? If so, could you provide an example that I can test?

Thanks,
Hong

On Dec 18, 2020, at 10:58 AM, Salazar De Troya, Miguel <salazardetro1 at llnl.gov<mailto:salazardetro1 at llnl.gov>> wrote:

Yes, that is the case I am considering. The special case I am concerned about is as following: the heat equation in variational form and in firedrake/UFL notation is as follows: p*u_t*v*dx + inner(grad(u), grad(v))*dx = 0, where u is the temperature, u_t is its time derivative, v is just the test function, dx is the integration domain and p is the design parameter. If “p” were discontinuous, one can’t just factor “p” into the second term due to the divergence theorem. Meaning that p*u_t*v*dx + inner(grad(u), grad(v))*dx = 0 is different than u_t*v*dx + inner(1.0 / p * grad(u), grad(v))*dx = 0, which is what ideally one would obtain in order to adapt to the current interface in TSAdjoint.

Thanks
Miguel

From: "Zhang, Hong" <hongzhang at anl.gov<mailto:hongzhang at anl.gov>>
Date: Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 7:25 PM
To: "Salazar De Troya, Miguel" <salazardetro1 at llnl.gov<mailto:salazardetro1 at llnl.gov>>
Cc: Satish Balay via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>>
Subject: Re: [petsc-users] Support for full jacobianP in TSSetIJacobianP

Hi Miguel,

Thank you for the nice work. I do not understand what you propose to do here. What is the obstacle to using current TSSetIJacobianP() for the corner case you mentioned? Are you considering a case in which the mass matrix is parameterized, e.g. M(p) udot - f(t,u) = g(t,u) ?

Thanks,
Hong

On Dec 17, 2020, at 3:38 PM, Salazar De Troya, Miguel via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:

Hello,

I am working on hooking up TSAdjoint with pyadjoint through the firedrake-ts interface (https://github.com/IvanYashchuk/firedrake-ts). I have done most of the implementation and now I am just testing for corner cases. One of them is when the design variable is multiplying the first derivative term. It would be the case ofF(Udot,U,P,t) = G(U,P,t) in https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-master/docs/manualpages/Sensitivity/TSSetIJacobianP.html . I imagine that one could think of refactoring the “P” in the left hand side to the right hand side, but this is not trivial when “P” is a discontinuous field over the domain. I think it would be better to include the case of F(Udot,U,P,t) = G(U,P,t) in TSSetIJacobianP and I am volunteering to do it. Given the current implementation of TSAdjoint, is this something feasible?

Thanks
Miguel

Miguel A. Salazar de Troya
Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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