heuropt 0.11.0

A practical Rust toolkit for heuristic single-, multi-, and many-objective optimization.
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//! Baseline `RandomSearch` optimizer.
//!
//! This is the reference example for spec §2.4 / §12.1: read this file before
//! writing your own optimizer.

use crate::algorithms::parallel_eval::evaluate_batch;
use crate::core::candidate::Candidate;
use crate::core::population::Population;
use crate::core::problem::Problem;
use crate::core::result::OptimizationResult;
use crate::core::rng::rng_from_seed;
use crate::pareto::{best_candidate, pareto_front};
use crate::traits::{Initializer, Optimizer};

/// Configuration for [`RandomSearch`].
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub struct RandomSearchConfig {
    /// Number of iterations (equals `generations` in the result).
    pub iterations: usize,
    /// Decisions sampled per iteration.
    pub batch_size: usize,
    /// Seed for the deterministic RNG.
    pub seed: u64,
}

impl Default for RandomSearchConfig {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self {
            iterations: 100,
            batch_size: 1,
            seed: 42,
        }
    }
}

/// Sample-evaluate-keep baseline optimizer.
///
/// Each iteration the configured `Initializer` produces `batch_size` decisions
/// which are evaluated and pushed into the population. Cheap, parallelism-free,
/// and useful as a sanity-check baseline.
///
/// # Example
///
/// ```
/// use heuropt::prelude::*;
///
/// struct Sphere;
/// impl Problem for Sphere {
///     type Decision = Vec<f64>;
///     fn objectives(&self) -> ObjectiveSpace {
///         ObjectiveSpace::new(vec![Objective::minimize("f")])
///     }
///     fn evaluate(&self, x: &Vec<f64>) -> Evaluation {
///         Evaluation::new(vec![x.iter().map(|v| v * v).sum::<f64>()])
///     }
/// }
///
/// let mut opt = RandomSearch::new(
///     RandomSearchConfig { iterations: 200, batch_size: 10, seed: 42 },
///     RealBounds::new(vec![(-5.0, 5.0); 3]),
/// );
/// let r = opt.run(&Sphere);
/// assert_eq!(r.evaluations, 200 * 10);
/// assert!(r.best.is_some());
/// ```
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub struct RandomSearch<I> {
    /// Algorithm configuration.
    pub config: RandomSearchConfig,
    /// Decision-sampling strategy.
    pub initializer: I,
}

impl<I> RandomSearch<I> {
    /// Construct a `RandomSearch` from its config and initializer.
    pub fn new(config: RandomSearchConfig, initializer: I) -> Self {
        Self {
            config,
            initializer,
        }
    }
}

impl<P, I> Optimizer<P> for RandomSearch<I>
where
    P: Problem + Sync,
    P::Decision: Send,
    I: Initializer<P::Decision>,
{
    fn run(&mut self, problem: &P) -> OptimizationResult<P::Decision> {
        let objectives = problem.objectives();
        let mut rng = rng_from_seed(self.config.seed);
        let mut all: Vec<Candidate<P::Decision>> = Vec::new();
        let mut evaluations = 0usize;

        for _ in 0..self.config.iterations {
            let decisions = self
                .initializer
                .initialize(self.config.batch_size, &mut rng);
            evaluations += decisions.len();
            all.extend(evaluate_batch(problem, decisions));
        }

        let front = pareto_front(&all, &objectives);
        let best = best_candidate(&all, &objectives);
        OptimizationResult::new(
            Population::new(all),
            front,
            best,
            evaluations,
            self.config.iterations,
        )
    }
}

#[cfg(feature = "async")]
impl<I> RandomSearch<I> {
    /// Async version of [`Optimizer::run`] — drives evaluations through
    /// the user-chosen async runtime (typically tokio). Useful when
    /// `evaluate` is IO-bound (HTTP, RPC, subprocess).
    ///
    /// `concurrency` bounds how many evaluations are in-flight at once;
    /// `1` is sequential, larger values push more load to the
    /// downstream service.
    ///
    /// Available only with the `async` feature.
    pub async fn run_async<P>(
        &mut self,
        problem: &P,
        concurrency: usize,
    ) -> OptimizationResult<P::Decision>
    where
        P: crate::core::async_problem::AsyncProblem,
        I: Initializer<P::Decision>,
    {
        use crate::algorithms::parallel_eval_async::evaluate_batch_async;
        let objectives = problem.objectives();
        let mut rng = rng_from_seed(self.config.seed);
        let mut all: Vec<Candidate<P::Decision>> = Vec::new();
        let mut evaluations = 0usize;
        for _ in 0..self.config.iterations {
            let decisions = self
                .initializer
                .initialize(self.config.batch_size, &mut rng);
            evaluations += decisions.len();
            let cands = evaluate_batch_async(problem, decisions, concurrency).await;
            all.extend(cands);
        }
        let front = pareto_front(&all, &objectives);
        let best = best_candidate(&all, &objectives);
        OptimizationResult::new(
            Population::new(all),
            front,
            best,
            evaluations,
            self.config.iterations,
        )
    }
}

impl<I> crate::traits::AlgorithmInfo for RandomSearch<I> {
    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
        "Random Search"
    }
    fn seed(&self) -> Option<u64> {
        Some(self.config.seed)
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;
    use crate::operators::RealBounds;
    use crate::tests_support::{SchafferN1, Sphere1D};

    #[test]
    fn evaluation_count_matches_iterations_times_batch() {
        let mut opt = RandomSearch::new(
            RandomSearchConfig {
                iterations: 30,
                batch_size: 4,
                seed: 1,
            },
            RealBounds::new(vec![(-2.0, 2.0)]),
        );
        let r = opt.run(&Sphere1D);
        assert_eq!(r.evaluations, 30 * 4);
        assert_eq!(r.population.len(), 30 * 4);
        assert_eq!(r.generations, 30);
    }

    #[test]
    fn pareto_front_non_empty_for_multi_objective() {
        let mut opt = RandomSearch::new(
            RandomSearchConfig {
                iterations: 50,
                batch_size: 1,
                seed: 42,
            },
            RealBounds::new(vec![(-5.0, 5.0)]),
        );
        let r = opt.run(&SchafferN1);
        assert!(!r.pareto_front.is_empty());
        // Multi-objective ⇒ best is None.
        assert!(r.best.is_none());
    }

    #[test]
    fn single_objective_returns_best() {
        let mut opt = RandomSearch::new(
            RandomSearchConfig {
                iterations: 100,
                batch_size: 1,
                seed: 7,
            },
            RealBounds::new(vec![(-1.0, 1.0)]),
        );
        let r = opt.run(&Sphere1D);
        assert!(r.best.is_some());
    }

    /// RandomSearch's evaluation count is exactly `iterations * batch_size`,
    /// and the returned best is no worse than every sampled candidate.
    #[test]
    fn best_is_no_worse_than_any_sample() {
        let mut opt = RandomSearch::new(
            RandomSearchConfig {
                iterations: 50,
                batch_size: 2,
                seed: 9,
            },
            RealBounds::new(vec![(-3.0, 3.0)]),
        );
        let r = opt.run(&Sphere1D);
        assert_eq!(r.evaluations, 100);
        let best = r.best.unwrap().evaluation.objectives[0];
        let pop_min = r
            .population
            .iter()
            .map(|c| c.evaluation.objectives[0])
            .fold(f64::INFINITY, f64::min);
        assert!(best <= pop_min + 1e-12, "best {best} > pop min {pop_min}");
    }
}