discrepancies in values of the jacobian

[richinex]

I tried to compare the values obtained from computing the jacobian of a complex valued function using numdifftools and found that it differed from that computed using autograd only for the parameter having 1j. i would like to know what went wrong.

from numdifftools import Jacobian, Hessian

import autograd.numpy as np
from autograd import jacobian, hessian

frequencies = np.array([1.00000000e+04, 7.94328235e+03, 6.30957344e+03, 5.01187234e+03,3.98107171e+03, 3.16227766e+03, 2.51188643e+03, 1.99526231e+03,
       1.58489319e+03, 1.25892541e+03, 1.00000000e+03, 7.94328235e+02,6.30957344e+02, 5.01187234e+02, 3.98107171e+02, 3.16227766e+02,
       2.51188643e+02, 1.99526231e+02, 1.58489319e+02, 1.25892541e+02,1.00000000e+02, 7.94328235e+01, 6.30957344e+01, 5.01187234e+01,
       3.98107171e+01, 3.16227766e+01, 2.51188643e+01, 1.99526231e+01,1.58489319e+01, 1.25892541e+01, 1.00000000e+01, 7.94328235e+00,
       6.30957344e+00, 5.01187234e+00, 3.98107171e+00, 3.16227766e+00,2.51188643e+00, 1.99526231e+00, 1.58489319e+00, 1.25892541e+00,
       1.00000000e+00])

Z = np.array([ 28.31206108+3.85713361e+00j,  30.65961255-6.15028952e-01j,34.24015216-1.53009927e+00j,  31.28832221+2.00862719e-01j,
        29.16894207-1.90759028e+00j,  31.35415498+8.12935902e+00j,33.29418445-8.44736332e-01j,  31.44975238-4.33909650e+00j,
        28.69757696-4.57807440e-01j,  32.60369585-7.49365253e+00j,38.67554243+1.94558309e+00j,  32.04682449+5.96513060e-02j,
        33.27666601+6.96674118e-02j,  34.03106231-1.63078686e+00j,31.61457921-3.37817364e+00j,  29.10184267-6.59263829e+00j,
        32.50730455-7.49033830e+00j,  36.43172672-3.28250914e+00j,38.06409634-6.87182171e+00j,  28.0217396 -7.79409862e+00j,
        32.56764449-1.28634629e+01j,  35.51511763-2.12395710e+01j,31.9317554 -2.85721873e+01j,  38.87220134-2.99072634e+01j,
        35.5291417 -3.74944224e+01j,  42.9529093 -4.04380053e+01j,40.94710166-5.09880048e+01j,  47.58460761-6.50587929e+01j,
        56.61773977-6.93842057e+01j,  70.84595799-8.97293571e+01j,91.28235232-9.63476214e+01j, 114.19032377-1.06793820e+02j,
       139.78246542-1.00266685e+02j, 161.07272489-1.00733766e+02j,181.230854  -9.02441714e+01j, 205.54084395-8.99491269e+01j,
       215.24421556-7.62099459e+01j, 223.62924894-6.40376670e+01j,229.93028184-4.76770260e+01j, 234.56144072-4.38847706e+01j,
       240.57421683-3.52116682e+01j])

params_init =np.array([10, 1e-5, 20, 50])

w = 2 * np.pi*frequencies # angular frequencies
s = 1j*w
def z_fun(p):
        return p[0] + 1/(s*p[1]+1/(p[2]+(p[3]/np.sqrt(s))))

# define the objective function
def obj_fun_1(p, z): 
    wtRe = 1/(z.real**2 + z.imag**2)
    return (np.sum(np.absolute((wtRe * (z_fun(p)- z)**2))))

# computing the jacobian using numdifftools

def num_jac_1(x, z):
    return Jacobian(lambda x: obj_fun_1(x, z), method='central')(x).real.squeeze()

# check the values
print(num_jac_1(params_init, Z))
# [-6.42302368e-01  1.45242757e-05 -1.07751884e-01 -2.99510421e-02]

# computing the jacobian using autograd
auto_jac_1 = jacobian(obj_fun_1)
# check the values
print(auto_jac_1(params_init, Z))
# [-6.42302368e-01  1.52096259e+05 -1.07751884e-01 -2.99510421e-02]

Now the problem is that when i supply the jacobian from numdifftools (the difference is in the second parameter (p[1]) the optimization fails but when I supply that obtained using autograd the optimization succeeds. I would like to know what the problem is.

[pbrod]

The problem here is that the function you are differentiating is very steep around the second parameter and therefore numdifftools fails. Numdifftools is only reliable on smooth slowly varying functions.
The only way to succed in this case is to limit the steps taken.

If you limit the maximum stepsize to 0.001 like this:

def num_jac_1(x, z):
        return Jacobian(lambda x: obj_fun_1(x, z), method='central', base_step=0.001)(x).real.squeeze()

you will get the wanted result:
[-6.42302368e-01 1.52096259e+05 -1.07751884e-01 -2.99510421e-02]
[-6.42302368e-01 1.52096259e+05 -1.07751884e-01 -2.99510421e-02]

[richinex]

Ahhhhhhh! I see. I'm happy to see that it works. Thank you.