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+// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
+// Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+// http://ceres-solver.org/
+//
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+//
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+//
+// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
+
+#ifndef CERES_PUBLIC_GRADIENT_PROBLEM_H_
+#define CERES_PUBLIC_GRADIENT_PROBLEM_H_
+
+#include <memory>
+#include "ceres/internal/port.h"
+#include "ceres/local_parameterization.h"
+
+namespace ceres {
+
+class FirstOrderFunction;
+
+// Instances of GradientProblem represent general non-linear
+// optimization problems that must be solved using just the value of
+// the objective function and its gradient. Unlike the Problem class,
+// which can only be used to model non-linear least squares problems,
+// instances of GradientProblem not restricted in the form of the
+// objective function.
+//
+// Structurally GradientProblem is a composition of a
+// FirstOrderFunction and optionally a LocalParameterization.
+//
+// The FirstOrderFunction is responsible for evaluating the cost and
+// gradient of the objective function.
+//
+// The LocalParameterization is responsible for going back and forth
+// between the ambient space and the local tangent space. (See
+// local_parameterization.h for more details). When a
+// LocalParameterization is not provided, then the tangent space is
+// assumed to coincide with the ambient Euclidean space that the
+// gradient vector lives in.
+//
+// Example usage:
+//
+// The following demonstrate the problem construction for Rosenbrock's function
+//
+//   f(x,y) = (1-x)^2 + 100(y - x^2)^2;
+//
+// class Rosenbrock : public ceres::FirstOrderFunction {
+//  public:
+//   virtual ~Rosenbrock() {}
+//
+//   virtual bool Evaluate(const double* parameters,
+//                         double* cost,
+//                         double* gradient) const {
+//     const double x = parameters[0];
+//     const double y = parameters[1];
+//
+//     cost[0] = (1.0 - x) * (1.0 - x) + 100.0 * (y - x * x) * (y - x * x);
+//     if (gradient != NULL) {
+//       gradient[0] = -2.0 * (1.0 - x) - 200.0 * (y - x * x) * 2.0 * x;
+//       gradient[1] = 200.0 * (y - x * x);
+//     }
+//     return true;
+//   };
+//
+//   virtual int NumParameters() const { return 2; };
+// };
+//
+// ceres::GradientProblem problem(new Rosenbrock());
+class CERES_EXPORT GradientProblem {
+ public:
+  // Takes ownership of the function.
+  explicit GradientProblem(FirstOrderFunction* function);
+
+  // Takes ownership of the function and the parameterization.
+  GradientProblem(FirstOrderFunction* function,
+                  LocalParameterization* parameterization);
+
+  int NumParameters() const;
+  int NumLocalParameters() const;
+
+  // This call is not thread safe.
+  bool Evaluate(const double* parameters, double* cost, double* gradient) const;
+  bool Plus(const double* x, const double* delta, double* x_plus_delta) const;
+
+ private:
+  std::unique_ptr<FirstOrderFunction> function_;
+  std::unique_ptr<LocalParameterization> parameterization_;
+  std::unique_ptr<double[]> scratch_;
+};
+
+// A FirstOrderFunction object implements the evaluation of a function
+// and its gradient.
+class CERES_EXPORT FirstOrderFunction {
+ public:
+  virtual ~FirstOrderFunction() {}
+  // cost is never NULL. gradient may be null.
+  virtual bool Evaluate(const double* const parameters,
+                        double* cost,
+                        double* gradient) const = 0;
+  virtual int NumParameters() const = 0;
+};
+
+}  // namespace ceres
+
+#endif  // CERES_PUBLIC_GRADIENT_PROBLEM_H_