Hi Regis,

Thanks for this long and well detailed answer!
The code you provided seems to work as expected.

However during my tests I noticed that the memory was not freed correctly.
Once the class FunctionalChaosAlgorithm is called, there is a memory bump and 
even after calling del
and gc.collect(), memory is still not freed (using memory_profiler for that). 
Might be a memory leak?

Kind regards,

Pamphile ROY
Chercheur doctorant en Quantification d’Incertitudes
CERFACS - Toulouse (31) - France
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> Le 7 oct. 2017 à 19:59, regis lebrun <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
> 
> Hi Pamphil,
> 
> You were almost right: the AdaptiveStieltjesAlgorithm is very close to what 
> you are looking for, but not exactly what you need. It is the algorithmic 
> part of the factory of orthonormal polynomials, the class you have to use is 
> StandardDistributionPolynomialFactory, ie a factory (=able to build 
> something) and not an algorithm (=something able to compute something). You 
> have all the details here:
> 
> http://openturns.github.io/openturns/master/user_manual/_generated/openturns.StandardDistributionPolynomialFactory.html
> 
> I agree on the fact that the difference is quite subtle, as it can be seen by 
> comparing the API of the two classes. The distinction was made at a time were 
> several algorithms were competing for the task (GramSchmidtAlgorithm, 
> ChebychevAlgorithm) but in fact the AdaptiveStieltjesAlgorithm proved to be 
> much more accurate and reliable than the other algorithms, and now it is the 
> only orthonormalization algorithm available.
> 
> Another subtle trick is the following.
> 
> If you create a basis this way:
> basis = ot.StandardDistributionPolynomialFactory(dist)
> you will get the basis associated to the *standard representative* 
> distribution in the parametric family to which dist belongs. It means the 
> distribution with zero mean and unit variance, or with support equals to [-1, 
> 1], or dist itself if no affine transformation is able to reduce the number 
> of parameters of the distribution. 
> It is managed automatically within the FunctionalChaosAlgorithm, but can be 
> disturbing if you do things by hand.
> 
> If you create a basis this way:
> basis = 
> ot.StandardDistributionPolynomialFactory(ot.AdaptiveStieltjesAlgorithm(dist))
> then the distribution is preserved, and you get the orthonormal polynomials 
> corresponding to dist. Be aware of the fact that the algorithm may have hard 
> time to build the polynomials if your distribution is far away from its 
> standard representative, as it may involves the computation of recurrence 
> coefficients with a much wider range of variation. The benefit is that the 
> orthonormality measure is exactly your distribution, assuming that its copula 
> is the independent one, so you don't have to introduce a marginal 
> transformation between both measures.
> 
> Some additional remarks:
> + it looks like dist has dimension>1, as you extract its marginal 
> distributions later on. AdaptiveStieltjesAlgorithm and 
> StandardDistributionPolynomialFactory only work with 1D distributions (it is 
> not checked by the library, my shame). What you have to do is:
> 
> basis = 
> ot.OrthogonalProductPolynomialFactory([ot.StandardDistributionPolynomialFactory(ot.AdaptiveStieltjesAlgorithm(dist.getMarginal(i)))
>  for i in range(dist.getDimension())])
> Quite a long line, I know...
> It will build a multivariate polynomial basis orthonormal with respect to the 
> product distribution (ie with independent copula) sharing the same 1D 
> marginal distributions as dist.
> 
> 
> After that, everything will work as expected and you will NOT have to build 
> the transformation (if you build it it will coincide with the identity 
> function). If you encounter performance issues (the polynomials of high 
> degrees take ages to be built as in http://trac.openturns.org/ticket/885, or 
> there is an overflow, or the numerical precision is bad) then use:
> basis = 
> ot.OrthogonalProductPolynomialFactory([ot.StandardDistributionPolynomialFactory(dist.getMarginal(i))
>  for i in range(dist.getDimension())])
> and build the transformation the way you do it.
> 
> + if you use the FunctionalChaosAlgorithm class by providing an input sample 
> and an output sample, you also have to provide the weights of the input 
> sample EVEN IF the experiment given in the projection strategy would allow to 
> recompute them. It is because the fact that you provide the input sample 
> overwrite the weighted experiment of the projection stratey by a 
> FixedExperiment doe.
> 
> I attached two complete examples: one using the exact marginal distributions 
> and the other using the standard representatives.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Régis
> 
> ________________________________
> De : roy <[email protected]>
> À : regis lebrun <[email protected]> 
> Cc : users <[email protected]>
> Envoyé le : Vendredi 6 octobre 2017 14h22
> Objet : Re: [ot-users] Sample transformation
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Regis,
> 
> Thank you for this detailed answer.
> 
> - I am using the latest release from conda (OT 1.9, python 3.6.2, latest 
> numpy, etc.) ,
> - For the sample, I need it to generate externally the output (cost code that 
> cannot be integrated into OT as model),
> - I have to convert ot.Sample into np.array because it is then used by other 
> functions to create the simulations, etc.
> 
> If I understood correctly, I can create the projection strategy using this 
> snippet:
> 
> basis = ot.AdaptiveStieltjesAlgorithm(dist)
> measure = basis.getMeasure()
> quad = ot.Indices(in_dim)
> for i in range(in_dim):
>    quad[i] = degree + 1
> 
> comp_dist = ot.GaussProductExperiment(measure, quad)
> proj_strategy = ot.IntegrationStrategy(comp_dist)
> 
> inv_trans = 
> ot.Function(ot.MarginalTransformationEvaluation([measure.getMarginal(i) for i 
> in range(in_dim)], distributions))
> sample = np.array(inv_trans(comp_dist.generate()))
> 
> 
> It seems to work. Except that the basis does not work with 
> ot.FixedStrategy(basis, dim_basis). I get a non implemented method error.
> 
> After I get the sample and the corresponding output, what is the way to go? 
> Which arguments do I need to use for the
> ot.FunctionalChaosAlgorithm? 
> 
> I am comparing the Q2 and on Ishigami and I was only able to get correct 
> results using:
> 
> pc_algo = ot.FunctionalChaosAlgorithm(sample, output, dist, trunc_strategy)
> 
> But for least square strategy I had to use this:
> 
> pc_algo = ot.FunctionalChaosAlgorithm(sample, output)
> 
> 
> Is it normal?
> 
> 
> Pamphile ROY
> Chercheur doctorant en Quantification d’Incertitudes
> CERFACS - Toulouse (31) - France
> +33 (0) 5 61 19 31 57
> +33 (0) 7 86 43 24 22
> 
> 
> 
> Le 5 oct. 2017 à 15:40, regis lebrun <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
>> 
>> Hi Pamphile,
>> 
>> 
>> 1) The problem:
>> The problem you get is due to the fact that in your version of OpenTURNS 
>> (1.7 I suppose), the GaussProductExperiment class has a different way to 
>> handle the input distribution than the other WeightedExperiment classes: it 
>> generates the quadrature rule of the *standard representatives* of the 
>> marginal distributions instead of the marginal distributions. It does not 
>> change the rate of convergence of the PCE algorithm and allows to use 
>> specific algorithms for distributions with known orthonormal polynomials. It 
>> is not explained in the documentation and if you ask the doe for its 
>> distribution it will give you the initial distribution instead of the 
>> standardized one.
>> 
>> 2) The mathematical background:
>> The generation of quadrature rules for arbitrary 1D distributions is a badly 
>> conditioned problem. Even if the quadrature rule is well-defined (existence 
>> of moments of any order, distribution characterized by these moments), the 
>> application that maps the recurrence coefficients of the orthogonal 
>> polynomials to their value can have a very large condition number. As a 
>> result, the adaptive integration used to compute the recurrence coefficients 
>> of order n, based on the values of the polynomials of degree n-1 and n-2, 
>> can lead to wrong values and all the process falls down.
>> 
>> 3) The current state of the software:
>> Since version 1.8, OpenTURNS no more generates the quadrature rule of the 
>> standard representatives, but the quadrature rule of the actual marginal 
>> distributions. The AdaptiveStieltjesAlgorithm class, introduced in release 
>> 1.8, is much more robust than the previous orthonormalization algorithms and 
>> is able to handle even stiff problems. There are still difficult situations 
>> (distributions with discontinuous PDF inside of the range, fixed in OT 1.9, 
>> or really badly conditioned distributions, hopefully fixed when ticket#885 
>> will be solved) but most usual situations are under control even with 
>> marginal degrees of order 20.
>> 
>> 4) The (probable) bug in your code and the way to solve it
>> You must be aware of the fact that the distribution you put into your 
>> WeightedExperiment object will be superseded by the distribution 
>> corresponding to your OrthogonalBasisFactory inside of the 
>> FunctionalChaosAlgorithm. If you need to have the input sample before to run 
>> the functional chaos algorithm, then you have to build your transformation 
>> by hand. Assuming that you already defined your projection basis called 
>> 'myBasis', your marginal integration degrees 'myDegrees' and your marginal 
>> distributions 'myMarginals', you have to write (in OT 1.7):
>> 
>> # Here the explicit cast into a NumericalMathFunction is to be able to 
>> evaluate the transformation over a sample
>> myTransformation = 
>> ot.NumericalMathFunction(ot.MarginalTransformationEvaluation([myBasis.getDistribution().getMarginal(i)
>>  for i in range(dimension), myMarginals))
>> sample = 
>> myTransformation(ot.GaussProductExperiment(myBasis.getDistribution(), 
>> myDegrees).generate())
>> 
>> 
>> You should avoid to cast OT objects into np objects as much as possible, and 
>> if you cannot avoid these casts you should do them only in the sections 
>> where they are needed. They can be expansive for large objects, and if the 
>> sample you get from generate() is used only as an argument of a 
>> NumericalMathFunction, then it will be converted back into a NumericalSample!
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> Régis
>> ________________________________
>> De : roy <[email protected]>
>> À : users <[email protected]> 
>> Envoyé le : Jeudi 5 octobre 2017 11h13
>> Objet : [ot-users] Sample transformation
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am facing consistency concerns in the API regarding distributions and 
>> sampling.
>> 
>> The initial goal was to get the sampling for Polynomial Chaos as I must not 
>> use the model variable.
>> So for least square strategy I do something like this:
>> 
>> proj_strategy = ot.LeastSquaresStrategy(montecarlo_design)
>> sample = np.array(proj_strategy.getExperiment().generate())
>> 
>> sample is correct as the bounds of each feature lie in the corresponding 
>> ranges.
>> 
>> But now if I want to use IntegrationStrategy:
>> 
>> ot.IntegrationStrategy(ot.GaussProductExperiment(dists, list))
>> sample = np.array(proj_strategy.getExperiment().generate())
>> 
>> sample’s outputs lie between [-1, 1] which does not corresponds to the 
>> distribution I have initially.
>> 
>> So I used the conversion class but it does not work well with 
>> GaussProductExperiment as it requires [0, 1] instead of [-1, 1].
>> 
>> Thus I use this hack:
>> 
>> # Convert from [-1, 1] -> input distributions
>> marg_inv_transf = ot.MarginalTransformationEvaluation(distributions, 1)
>> sample = (proj_strategy.getExperiment().generate() + 1) / 2.
>> 
>> 
>> Is it normal that the distribution classes are not returning in the same 
>> intervals?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for your support!
>> 
>> 
>> Pamphile ROY
>> Chercheur doctorant en Quantification d’Incertitudes
>> CERFACS - Toulouse (31) - France
>> +33 (0) 5 61 19 31 57
>> +33 (0) 7 86 43 24 22
>> 
>> 
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