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<div style="float: right; margin: 0 3em">[[File:Octave-interval.png|center]]</div>The GNU Octave interval package for real-valued interval arithmetic.
{{OctaveForge
| name = interval
| logo = [[File:Interval.png|100px]]
| short description = Real-valued interval arithmetic.
| version = 3.2.0
| date = 2018-07-01
| author 1 name  = Oliver Heimlich
| author 1 email = <oheim@posteo.de>
| maintainer 1 name  = Oliver Heimlich
| maintainer 1 email = <oheim@posteo.de>
| license = GPL-3.0+
| group = Community package
| doc 1 = [https://octave.sourceforge.io/interval/overview.html Function reference]
| doc 2 = [https://octave.sourceforge.io/interval/package_doc/ User manual]
| download 1 = [https://octave.sourceforge.io/download.php?package=interval-3.2.0.tar.gz interval-3.2.0.tar.gz]
| repository 1 = https://octave.sourceforge.io/pkg-repository/interval/
| dependency 1 = octave &ge; 3.8.0
| dependency 2 = '''Runtime:''' mpfr (&ge; 3.1.0) [https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libmpfr4 libmpfr4 for Debian]
| dependency 3 = '''Build:''' mpfr (&ge; 3.1.0) [https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libmpfr-dev libmpfr-dev for Debian]
}}


[[File:Interval-sombrero.png|280px|thumb|right|Plotting the interval enclosure of a function]]  
The GNU Octave interval package for real-valued [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic interval arithmetic].
* Intervals are closed, connected subsets of the real numbers. Intervals may be unbound (in either or both directions) or empty. In special cases <code>+inf</code> and <code>-inf</code> are used to denote boundaries of unbound intervals, but any member of the interval is a finite real number.
* Classical functions are extended to interval functions as follows: The result of function f evaluated on interval x is an interval '''enclosure of all possible values''' of f over x where the function is defined. Most interval arithmetic functions in this package manage to produce a very accurate such enclosure.
* The result of an interval arithmetic function is an interval in general. It might happen, that the mathematical range of a function consist of several intervals, but their union will be returned, e. g., 1 / [-1, 1] = [Entire].
 
[[File:Interval-sombrero.png|280px|thumb|left|Example: Plotting the interval enclosure of a function]]
<div style="clear:left"></div>


== Distribution ==
== Distribution ==
* [http://octave.sourceforge.net/interval/index.html Latest version at Octave Forge]
* [https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/octave-interval Debian GNU/Linux], [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/octave-interval Launchpad Ubuntu]
** <code>pkg install -forge interval</code>
* [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octave-interval/ archlinux user repository]
** [http://octave.sourceforge.net/interval/overview.html function reference]
* Included in [https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/ official Windows installer] and installed automatically with Octave (since version 4.0.1)
** [http://octave.sourceforge.net/interval/package_doc/index.html package documentation] (user manual)
* [https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/tree/master/math/octave-interval/ MacPorts] for Mac OS X
* [https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/math/octave-interval MacPorts] for Mac OS X
* [https://www.freshports.org/math/octave-forge-interval/ FreshPorts] for FreeBSD
* [http://www.freshports.org/math/octave-forge-interval/ FreshPorts] for FreeBSD
* [https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=octave-interval Cygwin] for Windows
* [https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/science/octave-forge-interval openSUSE build service]


== Development status ==
== Development status ==
* Completeness
* Completeness
** All required functions from IEEE Std 1788-2015, IEEE standard for interval arithmetic, are implemented. The standard was approved on June 11, 2015. It will remain active for ten years.
** All required functions from [https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1788-2015.html IEEE Std 1788-2015], IEEE standard for interval arithmetic, are implemented. The standard was approved by IEEE-SA on June 11, 2015. It will remain active for ten years. The standard was approved by ANSI in 2016.
** In addition there are functions for interval matrix arithmetic, plotting and solvers.
** Also, the minimalistic standard [https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1788.1-2017.html IEEE Std 1788.1-2017], IEEE standard for interval arithmetic (simplified) is fully implemented. The standard was approved by IEEE-SA on December 6, 2017 (and published in January 2018).
** In addition there are functions for interval matrix arithmetic, N-dimensional interval arrays, plotting, and solvers.
* Quality
* Quality
** Includes tests for all functions, many tests for basic functions
** Most arithmetic operations produce tight, correctly-rounded results. That is, the smallest possible interval with double-precision (binary64) endpoints, which encloses the exact result.
** No known bugs. The package is quite new and still has a small user base, so there might be hidden bugs. Also some advanced functions will always need more testing.
** Includes [https://github.com/oheim/ITF1788 large test suite] for arithmetic functions
** For open bugs please refer to the [https://savannah.gnu.org/search/?words=forge+interval&type_of_search=bugs&only_group_id=1925&exact=1 bug tracker].
* Performance
** All elementary functions have been [https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Vectorization-and-Faster-Code-Execution.html vectorized] and run fast on large input data.
** Arithmetic is performed with the [http://www.mpfr.org/ GNU MPFR] library internally. Where possible, the optimized [http://web.archive.org/web/20170128033523/http://lipforge.ens-lyon.fr/www/crlibm/ CRlibm] library is used.
* Portability
* Portability
** Runs in GNU Octave 3.8.2 and 4.0.0
** Runs in GNU Octave 3.8.2
** Known to run under GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD
** Known to run under GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD
* Possible TODOs
 
** To be considered in the future: Algorithms can be migrated from the C-XSC Toolbox (C++ code) from [http://www2.math.uni-wuppertal.de/wrswt/xsc/cxsc_new.html] (nlinsys.cpp and cpzero.cpp), however these would need gradient arithmetic and complex arithmetic.
== Project ideas (TODOs) ==
** Interval version of <code>interp1</code>
* To be considered in the future: Algorithms can be migrated from the C-XSC Toolbox (C++ code) from [http://www2.math.uni-wuppertal.de/wrswt/xsc/cxsc_new.html] (nlinsys.cpp and cpzero.cpp), however these would need gradient arithmetic and complex arithmetic.
** The [http://capd.ii.uj.edu.pl/ CAPD package] contains an algorithm for QR factorization. Analyze. Migrate.
* Interval version of <code>interp1</code>
** Extend <code>subsasgn</code> to allow direct manipulation of inf and sup properties.
* Extend <code>subsasgn</code> to allow direct manipulation of inf and sup (and dec) properties.
  >> A = infsup ("[2, 4]");
  >> A = infsup ("[2, 4]");
  >> A.inf = infsup ("[1, 3]")
  >> A.inf = infsup ("[1, 3]")
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  >> A.inf = 5
  >> A.inf = 5
  A = [Empty]
  A = [Empty]
** While at it, also allow multiple subscripts in <code>subsasgn</code>
:* While at it, also allow multiple subscripts in <code>subsasgn</code>
  >> A(:)(2:4)(2) = 42; # equivalent to A(3) = 42
  >> A(:)(2:4)(2) = 42; # equivalent to A(3) = 42
  >> A.inf(3) = 42; # also  A(3).inf = 42
  >> A.inf(3) = 42; # also  A(3).inf = 42
  >> A.inf.inf = 42 # should produce error?
  >> A.inf.inf = 42 # should produce error?
  >> A.inf.sup = 42 # should produce error?
  >> A.inf.sup = 42 # should produce error?
* Tight Enclosure of Matrix Multiplication with Level 3 BLAS [http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/conferences/swim2015/abstracts/ozaki.pdf] [http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/conferences/swim2015/slides/ozaki.pdf]
* Verified Convex Hull for Inexact Data [http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/conferences/swim2015/abstracts/ohta.pdf] [http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/conferences/swim2015/slides/ohta.pdf]
* Implement user-controllable output from the interval standard (e. g. via printf functions):
a) It should be possible to specify the preferred overall field width (the length of s).
b) It should be possible to specify how Empty, Entire and NaI are output,
    e.g., whether lower or upper case, and whether Entire becomes [Entire] or [-Inf, Inf].
c) For l and u, it should be possible to specify the field width,
    and the number of digits after the point or the number of significant digits.
    (partly this is already implemented by output_precision (...) / `format long` / `format short`)
d) It should be possible to output the bounds of an interval without punctuation,
    e.g., 1.234 2.345 instead of [1.234, 2.345]. For instance, this might be a
    convenient way to write intervals to a file for use by another application.


== Compatibility ==
== Compatibility ==
The interval package's main goal is to be compliant with IEEE Std 1788-2015, so it is compatible with other standard-conforming implementations (on the set of operations described by the standard document).
The interval package's main goal is to be compliant with IEEE Std 1788-2015, so it is compatible with other standard-conforming implementations (on the set of operations described by the standard document). Other implementations, which are known to aim for standard conformance are:
 
* [https://github.com/JuliaIntervals/IntervalArithmetic.jl IntervalArithmetic.jl package] (Julia)
* [https://github.com/jinterval/jinterval JInterval library] (Java)
* [https://github.com/nadezhin/libieeep1788 ieeep1788 library] (C++) created by Marco Nehmeier, later forked by Dmitry Nadezhin


=== Octave Forge simp package ===
=== Octave Forge simp package ===
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* Basic operations can be found in both packages, but the availability of special functions depends
* Basic operations can be found in both packages, but the availability of special functions depends


{{Code|In GNU Octave the interval package can also be run alongside INTLAB.|<syntaxhighlight lang="octave">
 
# INTLAB intervals
<div style="display:flex; align-items: flex-start">
A1 = infsup (2, 3);
<div style="margin-right: 2em">
B1 = hull (-4, A1);
{{Code|Computation with this interval package|<syntaxhighlight lang="octave">
C1 = midrad (0, 2);
pkg load interval
# Interval package intervals
A1 = infsup (2, 3);
pkg load interval
B1 = hull (-4, A2);
A2 = infsup (2, 3);
C1 = midrad (0, 2);
B2 = hull (-4, A2);
 
C2 = midrad (0, 2);
A1 + B1 * C1
pkg unload interval
</syntaxhighlight>
}}
# Computation with INTLAB
</div><div>
A1 + B1 * C1
{{Code|Computation with INTLAB|<syntaxhighlight lang="octave">
# Computation without INTLAB
startintlab
A2 + B2 * C2
A2 = infsup (2, 3);
B2 = hull (-4, A2);
C2 = midrad (0, 2);
 
A2 + B2 * C2
</syntaxhighlight>
</syntaxhighlight>
}}
}}
</div>
</div>


==== Known differences ====
==== Known differences ====
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| isintval (x)
| isintval (x)
|}
|}
== Similar software ==
For C++ there is an interval library [https://github.com/nehmeier/libieeep1788/ libieeep1788] by Marco Nehmeier (member of IEEE P1788). It aims to be standard compliant with IEEE Std 1788-2015 and is designed in a modular way, supporting several interval data types and different flavors of interval arithmetic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOa9aWAZO_Q]. The GNU Octave interval package shares several unit tests with libieeep1788.
For Julia there is an evolving interval library [https://github.com/dpsanders/ValidatedNumerics.jl ValidatedNumerics.jl] by Luis Benet and David P. Sanders. It is planned to become conforming to IEEE Std 1788-2015 (or to the basic standard 1788.1) in the future.


== Developer Information ==
== Developer Information ==
=== Source Code Repository ===
=== Source Code Repository ===
https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/interval/ci/default/tree/
https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/interval/ci/default/tree/
=== Dependencies ===
apt-get install liboctave-dev mercurial make automake libmpfr-dev


=== Build ===
=== Build ===
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'''Build dependencies'''
'''Build dependencies'''
* Octave
<code>apt-get install libmpfr-dev autoconf automake inkscape zopfli</code>
** Version 3.8.0 or greater
** No need to compile from source, but you need development files e.g. package <code>liboctave-dev</code> in Debian.
* Mercurial
* Texinfo
* MPFR
** Version 3.1.0 or greater
** No need to compile from source, but you need development files e.g. package <code>libmpfr-dev</code> in Debian.
* Octave package: doctest
** Purpose: Verification of the examples in the manual and in the function documentation
** Installation: Use <code>pkg install -forge doctest</code> inside Octave
* Octave package: generate_html
** Purpose: Generate HTML documenation for publication on Octave Forge (only needed for release)
** Installation: Use <code>pkg install -forge generate_html</code> inside Octave
* ITF1788
** Purpose: Compilation of unit-test
** Installation:
**# Clone the git repository from https://github.com/oheim/ITF1788
**# Install python 3 and the dependencies described by ITF1788's <code>setup.py</code> file
**# Set up an environment variable ITF1788_HOME to point to your local git workspace, for example put the line <code>export IFT1788_HOME=/home/user/ITF1788</code> into your <code>.bashrc</code>.
* LilyPond, Inkscape, Poppler
** Purpose: Generate / convert images for the manual
** Installation: Use your distribution's package manager (look for packages called <code>lilypond</code> <code>inkscape</code> <code>poppler-utils</code>)


=== Architecture ===
=== Architecture ===
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  |  |  `- ...                – further functions on decorated intervals
  |  |  `- ...                – further functions on decorated intervals
  |  `- ...                    – a few global functions that don't operate on intervals
  |  `- ...                    – a few global functions that don't operate on intervals
  +- src/
  `- src/
|  |  +- mpfr_function_d.cc – computes various arithmetic functions correctly rounded (using MPFR)
    +- mpfr_function_d.cc     – computes various arithmetic functions correctly rounded (using MPFR)
|  |  `- ...                 – other oct-file sources
    `- ...                     – other oct-file sources
`- test/                      – interval arithmetic unit tests


=== Best practices ===
=== Best practices ===
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* Methods with more than 1 parameter must convert non-interval parameters to intervals using the class constructor. This allows the user to mix non-interval parameters with interval parameters and the function treats any inputs as intervals. Invalid values will be handled by the class constructors.
* Methods with more than 1 parameter must convert non-interval parameters to intervals using the class constructor. This allows the user to mix non-interval parameters with interval parameters and the function treats any inputs as intervals. Invalid values will be handled by the class constructors.
  if (not (isa (x, "infsup")))
  if (not (isa (x, "infsup")))
    x = infsup (x);
  x = infsup (x);
  endif
  endif
  if (not (isa (y, "infsup")))
  if (not (isa (y, "infsup")))
    y = infsup (y);
  y = infsup (y);
  endif
  endif


  if (not (isa (x, "infsupdec")))
  if (not (isa (x, "infsupdec")))
    x = infsupdec (x);
  x = infsupdec (x);
  endif
  endif
  if (not (isa (y, "infsupdec")))
  if (not (isa (y, "infsupdec")))
    y = infsupdec (y);
  y = infsupdec (y);
endif
* Methods of class <code>infsupdec</code> as well as methods of class <code>infsup</code> that are not overridden by <code>infsupdec</code> must check parameters using the <code>isnai</code> function and return the NAI value if it is present. This will propagate NAI values through any function evaluations.
if (isnai (x))
    result = x;
    return
  endif
  endif


==== Use of Octave functions ====
==== Use of Octave functions ====
Octave functions may be used as long as they don't introduce arithmetic errors. For example, the ceil function can be used safely since it is exact on binary64 numbers.
Octave functions may be used as long as they don't introduce arithmetic errors. For example, the ceil function can be used safely since it is exact on binary64 numbers.
  function result = ceil (x)
  function x = ceil (x)
... parameter checking ...
  ... parameter checking ...
result = infsup (ceil (x.inf), ceil (x.sup));
  x.inf = ceil (x.inf);
  x.sup = ceil (x.sup);
  endfunction
  endfunction
If Octave functions would introduce arithmetic/rounding errors, there are interfaces to MPFR (<code>mpfr_function_d</code>) and crlibm (<code>crlibm_function</code>), which can produce guaranteed boundaries.


==== Vectorization & Indexing ====
==== Vectorization & Indexing ====
All functions should be implemented using vectorization and indexing. This is very important for performance on large data. For example, consider the plus function. It computes lower and upper boundaries of the result (x.inf, y.inf, x.sup, y.sup may be vectors or matrices) and then uses an indexing expression to adjust values where empty intervals would have produces problematic values.
All functions should be implemented using vectorization and indexing. This is very important for performance on large data. For example, consider the plus function. It computes lower and upper boundaries of the result (x.inf, y.inf, x.sup, y.sup may be vectors or matrices) and then uses an indexing expression to adjust values where empty intervals would have produces problematic values.
  function result = plus (x, y)
  function x = plus (x, y)
... parameter checking ...
  ... parameter checking ...
l = mpfr_function_d ('plus', -inf, x.inf, y.inf);
  l = mpfr_function_d ('plus', -inf, x.inf, y.inf);
u = mpfr_function_d ('plus', +inf, x.sup, y.sup);
  u = mpfr_function_d ('plus', +inf, x.sup, y.sup);
   
   
emptyresult = isempty (x) | isempty (y);
  emptyresult = isempty (x) | isempty (y);
l(emptyresult) = inf;
  l(emptyresult) = inf;
u(emptyresult) = -inf;
  u(emptyresult) = -inf;
result = infsup (l, u);
  …
  endfunction
  endfunction


[[Category:Octave-Forge]]
== VERSOFT ==
The [http://uivtx.cs.cas.cz/~rohn/matlab/ VERSOFT] software package (by Jiří Rohn) has been released under a free software license (Expat license) and algorithms may be migrated into the interval package.
 
{|
! Function
! Status
! Information
|-
|colspan="3"|Real (or complex) data only: Matrices
|-
|verbasis
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verfullcolrank</code>
|-
|vercondnum
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">versingval</code>
|-
|verdet
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code>vereig</code>
|-
|verdistsing
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">versingval</code>
|-
|verfullcolrank
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code>verpinv</code>
|-
|vernorm2
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">versingval</code>
|-
|vernull (experimental)
| unknown
| depends on <code style="color:red">verlsq</code>; todo: compare with local function inside <code style="color:green">verintlinineqs</code>
|-
|verorth
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verbasis</code> and <code style="color:red">verthinsvd</code>
|-
|verorthproj
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verpinv</code> and <code style="color:red">verfullcolrank</code>
|-
|verpd
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code>isspd</code> (by Rump, to be checked) and <code style="color:red">vereig</code>
|-
|verpinv
|style="color:red"| trapped
| dependency <code>verifylss</code> is implemented as <code>mldivide</code>; depends on <code style="color:red">verthinsvd</code>
|-
|verpmat
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verregsing</code>
|-
|verrank
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">versingval</code> and <code style="color:red">verbasis</code>
|-
|verrref
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verfullcolrank</code> and <code style="color:red">verpinv</code>
|-
|colspan="3"|Real (or complex) data only: Matrices: Eigenvalues and singular values
|-
|vereig
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on proprietary <code>verifyeig</code> function from INTLAB, depends on complex interval arithmetic
|-
|<s>vereigback</s>
|style="color:green"| free, migrated (for real eigenvalues)
| dependency <code>norm</code> is already implemented
|-
|verspectrad
|style="color:red"| trapped
| main part implemented in <code>vereig</code>
|-
|colspan="3"|Real (or complex) data only: Matrices: Decompositions
|-
|verpoldec
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verthinsvd</code>
|-
|verrankdec
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verfullcolrank</code> and <code style="color:red">verpinv</code>
|-
|verspectdec
|style="color:red"| trapped
| main part implemented in <code>vereig</code>
|-
|verthinsvd
|style="color:red"| trapped
| implemented in <code>vereig</code>
|-
|colspan="3"|Real (or complex) data only: Matrix functions
|-
|vermatfun
|style="color:red"| trapped
| main part implemented in <code>vereig</code>
|-
|colspan="3"|Real data only: Linear systems (rectangular)
|-
|<s>verlinineqnn</s>
|style="color:green"| free, migrated
| use <code>glpk</code> as a replacement for <code>linprog</code>
|-
|verlinsys
|style="color:red"| trapped
| dependency <code>verifylss</code> is implemented as <code>mldivide</code>; depends on <code style="color:red">verpinv</code>, <code style="color:red">verfullcolrank</code>, and <code style="color:red">verbasis</code>
|-
|verlsq
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verpinv</code> and <code style="color:red">verfullcolrank</code>
|-
|colspan="3"|Real data only: Optimization
|-
|verlcpall
|style="color:green"| free
| depends on <code>verabsvaleqnall</code>
|-
|<s>verlinprog</s>
|style="color:green"| free, migrated
| use <code>glpk</code> as a replacement for <code>linprog</code>; dependency <code>verifylss</code> is implemented as <code>mldivide</code>
|-
|verlinprogg
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code>verfullcolrank</code>
|-
|verquadprog
| unknown
| use <code>quadprog</code> from the optim package; use <code>glpk</code> as a replacement for <code>linprog</code>; dependency <code>verifylss</code> is implemented as <code>mldivide</code>; depends on <code>isspd</code> (by Rump, to be checked, algorithm in [http://www.ti3.tuhh.de/paper/rump/Ru06c.pdf])
|-
|colspan="3"|Real (or complex) data only: Polynomials
|-
|verroots
|style="color:red"| trapped
| main part implemented in <code>vereig</code>
|-
|colspan="3"|Interval (or real) data: Matrices
|-
|verhurwstab
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verposdef</code>
|-
|verinverse
|style="color:green"| free
| depends on <code style="color:green">verintervalhull</code>, to be migrated
|-
|<s>verinvnonneg</s>
|style="color:green"| free, migrated
|-
|verposdef
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code>isspd</code> (by Rump, to be checked) and <code style="color:red">verregsing</code>
|-
|verregsing
|style="color:red"| trapped
| dependency <code>verifylss</code> is implemented as <code>mldivide</code>; depends on <code>isspd</code> (by Rump, to be checked) and <code>verintervalhull</code>; see also [http://uivtx.cs.cas.cz/~rohn/publist/singreg.pdf]
|-
|colspan="3"|Interval (or real) data: Matrices: Eigenvalues and singular values
|-
|vereigsym
|style="color:red"| trapped
| main part implemented in <code>vereig</code>, depends on <code style="color:red">verspectrad</code>
|-
|vereigval
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verregsing</code>
|-
|<s>vereigvec</s>
|style="color:green"| free, migrated
|-
|verperrvec
|style="color:green"| free
| the function is just a wrapper around <code style="color:green">vereigvec</code>?!?
|-
|versingval
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">vereigsym</code>
|-
|colspan="3"|Interval (or real) data: Matrices: Decompositions
|-
|verqr (experimental)
|style="color:green"| free
| <code>qr</code> has already been implemented using the Gram-Schmidt process, which seems to be more accurate and faster than the Cholsky decomposition or Householder reflections used in verqr. No migration needed.
|-
|<s>verchol (experimental)</s>
|style="color:green"| free, migrated
| migrated version has been named after the standard Octave function <code>chol</code>
|-
|colspan="3"|Interval (or real) data: Linear systems (square)
|-
|verenclinthull
|style="color:green"| free
| to be migrated
|-
|verhullparam
|style="color:green"| free
| depends on <code>verintervalhull</code>, to be migrated
|-
|verhullpatt
|style="color:green"| free
| depends on <code>verhullparam</code>, to be migrated
|-
|verintervalhull
|style="color:green"| free
| to be migrated
|-
|colspan="3"|Interval (or real) data: Linear systems (rectangular)
|-
|verintlinineqs
|style="color:green"| free
| depends on <code style="color:green">verlinineqnn</code>
|-
|veroettprag
|style="color:green"| free
|-
|vertolsol
|style="color:green"| free
| depends on <code style="color:green">verlinineqnn</code>
|-
|colspan="3"|Interval (or real) data: Matrix equations (rectangular)
|-
|vermatreqn
|style="color:green"| free
|-
|colspan="3"|Real data only: Uncommon problems
|-
| plusminusoneset
|style="color:green"| free
|-
| verabsvaleqn
|style="color:green"| free
| to be migrated
|-
| verabsvaleqnall
|style="color:green"| free
| depends on <code>verabsvaleqn</code>, see also [http://uivtx.cs.cas.cz/~rohn/publist/absvaleqnall.pdf], to be migrated
|-
| verbasintnpprob
|style="color:red"| trapped
| depends on <code style="color:red">verregsing</code>
|-
|}
 
 
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Latest revision as of 04:55, 13 August 2019

Octave Forge
interval
Interval.png
Real-valued interval arithmetic.
pkg install -forge interval
Version: 3.2.0 (2018-07-01)
Author(s): Oliver Heimlich <oheim@posteo.de>
Maintainer(s): Oliver Heimlich <oheim@posteo.de>
License: GPL-3.0+
Group: Community package
Documentation: Function reference
User manual
Download: interval-3.2.0.tar.gz
Repository: https://octave.sourceforge.io/pkg-repository/interval/
Dependencies: octave ≥ 3.8.0
Runtime: mpfr (≥ 3.1.0) libmpfr4 for Debian
Build: mpfr (≥ 3.1.0) libmpfr-dev for Debian


The GNU Octave interval package for real-valued interval arithmetic.

  • Intervals are closed, connected subsets of the real numbers. Intervals may be unbound (in either or both directions) or empty. In special cases +inf and -inf are used to denote boundaries of unbound intervals, but any member of the interval is a finite real number.
  • Classical functions are extended to interval functions as follows: The result of function f evaluated on interval x is an interval enclosure of all possible values of f over x where the function is defined. Most interval arithmetic functions in this package manage to produce a very accurate such enclosure.
  • The result of an interval arithmetic function is an interval in general. It might happen, that the mathematical range of a function consist of several intervals, but their union will be returned, e. g., 1 / [-1, 1] = [Entire].
Example: Plotting the interval enclosure of a function

Distribution[edit]

Development status[edit]

  • Completeness
    • All required functions from IEEE Std 1788-2015, IEEE standard for interval arithmetic, are implemented. The standard was approved by IEEE-SA on June 11, 2015. It will remain active for ten years. The standard was approved by ANSI in 2016.
    • Also, the minimalistic standard IEEE Std 1788.1-2017, IEEE standard for interval arithmetic (simplified) is fully implemented. The standard was approved by IEEE-SA on December 6, 2017 (and published in January 2018).
    • In addition there are functions for interval matrix arithmetic, N-dimensional interval arrays, plotting, and solvers.
  • Quality
    • Most arithmetic operations produce tight, correctly-rounded results. That is, the smallest possible interval with double-precision (binary64) endpoints, which encloses the exact result.
    • Includes large test suite for arithmetic functions
    • For open bugs please refer to the bug tracker.
  • Performance
    • All elementary functions have been vectorized and run fast on large input data.
    • Arithmetic is performed with the GNU MPFR library internally. Where possible, the optimized CRlibm library is used.
  • Portability
    • Runs in GNU Octave ≥ 3.8.2
    • Known to run under GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD

Project ideas (TODOs)[edit]

  • To be considered in the future: Algorithms can be migrated from the C-XSC Toolbox (C++ code) from [1] (nlinsys.cpp and cpzero.cpp), however these would need gradient arithmetic and complex arithmetic.
  • Interval version of interp1
  • Extend subsasgn to allow direct manipulation of inf and sup (and dec) properties.
>> A = infsup ("[2, 4]");
>> A.inf = infsup ("[1, 3]")
A = [1, 4]
>> A.inf = 5
A = [Empty]
  • While at it, also allow multiple subscripts in subsasgn
>> A(:)(2:4)(2) = 42; # equivalent to A(3) = 42
>> A.inf(3) = 42; # also  A(3).inf = 42
>> A.inf.inf = 42 # should produce error?
>> A.inf.sup = 42 # should produce error?
  • Tight Enclosure of Matrix Multiplication with Level 3 BLAS [2] [3]
  • Verified Convex Hull for Inexact Data [4] [5]
  • Implement user-controllable output from the interval standard (e. g. via printf functions):
a) It should be possible to specify the preferred overall field width (the length of s).
b) It should be possible to specify how Empty, Entire and NaI are output,
   e.g., whether lower or upper case, and whether Entire becomes [Entire] or [-Inf, Inf].
c) For l and u, it should be possible to specify the field width,
   and the number of digits after the point or the number of significant digits.
   (partly this is already implemented by output_precision (...) / `format long` / `format short`)
d) It should be possible to output the bounds of an interval without punctuation,
   e.g., 1.234 2.345 instead of [1.234, 2.345]. For instance, this might be a
   convenient way to write intervals to a file for use by another application.

Compatibility[edit]

The interval package's main goal is to be compliant with IEEE Std 1788-2015, so it is compatible with other standard-conforming implementations (on the set of operations described by the standard document). Other implementations, which are known to aim for standard conformance are:

Octave Forge simp package[edit]

In 2008/2009 there was a Single Interval Mathematics Package (SIMP) for Octave, which has eventually become unmaintained at Octave Forge.

The simp package contains a few basic interval arithmetic operations on scalar or vector intervals. It does not consider inaccurate built-in arithmetic functions, round-off, conversion and representational errors. As a result its syntax is very easy, but the arithmetic fails to produce guaranteed enclosures.

It is recommended to use the interval package as a replacement for simp. However, function names and interval constructors are not compatible between the packages.

INTLAB[edit]

This interval package is not meant to be a replacement for INTLAB and any compatibility with it is pure coincidence. Since both are compatible with GNU Octave, they happen to agree on many function names and programs written for INTLAB may possibly run with this interval package as well. Some fundamental differences that I am currently aware of:

  • INTLAB is non-free software, it grants none of the four essential freedoms of free software
  • INTLAB is not conforming to IEEE Std 1788-2015 and the parsing of intervals from strings uses a different format—especially for the uncertain form
  • INTLAB supports intervals with complex numbers and sparse interval matrices, but no empty intervals
  • INTLAB uses inferior accuracy for most arithmetic operations, because it focuses on speed
  • Basic operations can be found in both packages, but the availability of special functions depends


Code: Computation with this interval package
pkg load interval
A1 = infsup (2, 3);
B1 = hull (-4, A2);
C1 = midrad (0, 2);

A1 + B1 * C1
Code: Computation with INTLAB
startintlab
A2 = infsup (2, 3);
B2 = hull (-4, A2);
C2 = midrad (0, 2);

A2 + B2 * C2

Known differences[edit]

Simple programs written for INTLAB should run without modification with this interval package. The following table lists common functions that use a different name in INTLAB.

interval package INTLAB
infsup (x) intval (x)
wid (x) diam (x)
subset (a, b) in (a, b)
interior (a, b) in0 (a, b)
isempty (x) isnan (x)
disjoint (a, b) emptyintersect (a, b)
hdist (a, b) qdist (a, b)
disp (x) disp2str (x)
infsup (s) str2intval (s)
isa (x, "infsup") isintval (x)

Developer Information[edit]

Source Code Repository[edit]

https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/interval/ci/default/tree/

Dependencies[edit]

apt-get install liboctave-dev mercurial make automake libmpfr-dev

Build[edit]

The repository contains a Makefile which controls the build process. Some common targets are:

  • make release Create a release tarball and the HTML documentation for Octave Forge (takes a while).
  • make check Run the full test-suite to verify that code changes didn't break anything (takes a while).
  • make run Quickly start Octave with minimal recompilation and functions loaded from the workspace (for interactive testing of code changes).

Build dependencies apt-get install libmpfr-dev autoconf automake inkscape zopfli

Architecture[edit]

In a nutshell the package provides two new data types to users: bare intervals and decorated intervals. The data types are implemented as:

  • class infsup (bare interval) with attributes inf (lower interval boundary) and sup (upper interval boundary)
  • class infsupdec (decorated interval) which extends the former and adds attribute dec (interval decoration).

Almost all functions in the package are implemented as methods of these classes, e. g. @infsup/sin implements the sine function for bare intervals. Most code is kept in m-files. Arithmetic operations that require correctly-rounded results are implemented in oct-files (C++ code), these are used internally by the m-files of the package. The source code is organized as follows:

+- doc/                        – package manual
+- inst/
|   +- @infsup/
|   |   +- infsup.m            – class constructor for bare intervals
|   |   +- sin.m               – sine function for bare intervals (uses mpfr_function_d internally)
|   |   `- ...                 – further functions on bare intervals
|   +- @infsupdec/
|   |   +- infsupdec.m         – class constructor for decorated intervals
|   |   +- sin.m               – sine function for decorated intervals (uses @infsup/sin internally)
|   |   `- ...                 – further functions on decorated intervals
|   `- ...                     – a few global functions that don't operate on intervals
`- src/
    +- mpfr_function_d.cc      – computes various arithmetic functions correctly rounded (using MPFR)
    `- ...                     – other oct-file sources

Best practices[edit]

Parameter checking[edit]

  • All methods must check nargin and call print_usage if the number of parameters is wrong. This prevents simple errors by the user.
  • Methods with more than 1 parameter must convert non-interval parameters to intervals using the class constructor. This allows the user to mix non-interval parameters with interval parameters and the function treats any inputs as intervals. Invalid values will be handled by the class constructors.
if (not (isa (x, "infsup")))
  x = infsup (x);
endif
if (not (isa (y, "infsup")))
  y = infsup (y);
endif
if (not (isa (x, "infsupdec")))
  x = infsupdec (x);
endif
if (not (isa (y, "infsupdec")))
  y = infsupdec (y);
endif

Use of Octave functions[edit]

Octave functions may be used as long as they don't introduce arithmetic errors. For example, the ceil function can be used safely since it is exact on binary64 numbers.

function x = ceil (x)
  ... parameter checking ...
  x.inf = ceil (x.inf);
  x.sup = ceil (x.sup);
endfunction

If Octave functions would introduce arithmetic/rounding errors, there are interfaces to MPFR (mpfr_function_d) and crlibm (crlibm_function), which can produce guaranteed boundaries.

Vectorization & Indexing[edit]

All functions should be implemented using vectorization and indexing. This is very important for performance on large data. For example, consider the plus function. It computes lower and upper boundaries of the result (x.inf, y.inf, x.sup, y.sup may be vectors or matrices) and then uses an indexing expression to adjust values where empty intervals would have produces problematic values.

function x = plus (x, y)
  ... parameter checking ...
  l = mpfr_function_d ('plus', -inf, x.inf, y.inf);
  u = mpfr_function_d ('plus', +inf, x.sup, y.sup);

  emptyresult = isempty (x) | isempty (y);
  l(emptyresult) = inf;
  u(emptyresult) = -inf;
  …
endfunction

VERSOFT[edit]

The VERSOFT software package (by Jiří Rohn) has been released under a free software license (Expat license) and algorithms may be migrated into the interval package.

Function Status Information
Real (or complex) data only: Matrices
verbasis trapped depends on verfullcolrank
vercondnum trapped depends on versingval
verdet trapped depends on vereig
verdistsing trapped depends on versingval
verfullcolrank trapped depends on verpinv
vernorm2 trapped depends on versingval
vernull (experimental) unknown depends on verlsq; todo: compare with local function inside verintlinineqs
verorth trapped depends on verbasis and verthinsvd
verorthproj trapped depends on verpinv and verfullcolrank
verpd trapped depends on isspd (by Rump, to be checked) and vereig
verpinv trapped dependency verifylss is implemented as mldivide; depends on verthinsvd
verpmat trapped depends on verregsing
verrank trapped depends on versingval and verbasis
verrref trapped depends on verfullcolrank and verpinv
Real (or complex) data only: Matrices: Eigenvalues and singular values
vereig trapped depends on proprietary verifyeig function from INTLAB, depends on complex interval arithmetic
vereigback free, migrated (for real eigenvalues) dependency norm is already implemented
verspectrad trapped main part implemented in vereig
Real (or complex) data only: Matrices: Decompositions
verpoldec trapped depends on verthinsvd
verrankdec trapped depends on verfullcolrank and verpinv
verspectdec trapped main part implemented in vereig
verthinsvd trapped implemented in vereig
Real (or complex) data only: Matrix functions
vermatfun trapped main part implemented in vereig
Real data only: Linear systems (rectangular)
verlinineqnn free, migrated use glpk as a replacement for linprog
verlinsys trapped dependency verifylss is implemented as mldivide; depends on verpinv, verfullcolrank, and verbasis
verlsq trapped depends on verpinv and verfullcolrank
Real data only: Optimization
verlcpall free depends on verabsvaleqnall
verlinprog free, migrated use glpk as a replacement for linprog; dependency verifylss is implemented as mldivide
verlinprogg trapped depends on verfullcolrank
verquadprog unknown use quadprog from the optim package; use glpk as a replacement for linprog; dependency verifylss is implemented as mldivide; depends on isspd (by Rump, to be checked, algorithm in [6])
Real (or complex) data only: Polynomials
verroots trapped main part implemented in vereig
Interval (or real) data: Matrices
verhurwstab trapped depends on verposdef
verinverse free depends on verintervalhull, to be migrated
verinvnonneg free, migrated
verposdef trapped depends on isspd (by Rump, to be checked) and verregsing
verregsing trapped dependency verifylss is implemented as mldivide; depends on isspd (by Rump, to be checked) and verintervalhull; see also [7]
Interval (or real) data: Matrices: Eigenvalues and singular values
vereigsym trapped main part implemented in vereig, depends on verspectrad
vereigval trapped depends on verregsing
vereigvec free, migrated
verperrvec free the function is just a wrapper around vereigvec?!?
versingval trapped depends on vereigsym
Interval (or real) data: Matrices: Decompositions
verqr (experimental) free qr has already been implemented using the Gram-Schmidt process, which seems to be more accurate and faster than the Cholsky decomposition or Householder reflections used in verqr. No migration needed.
verchol (experimental) free, migrated migrated version has been named after the standard Octave function chol
Interval (or real) data: Linear systems (square)
verenclinthull free to be migrated
verhullparam free depends on verintervalhull, to be migrated
verhullpatt free depends on verhullparam, to be migrated
verintervalhull free to be migrated
Interval (or real) data: Linear systems (rectangular)
verintlinineqs free depends on verlinineqnn
veroettprag free
vertolsol free depends on verlinineqnn
Interval (or real) data: Matrix equations (rectangular)
vermatreqn free
Real data only: Uncommon problems
plusminusoneset free
verabsvaleqn free to be migrated
verabsvaleqnall free depends on verabsvaleqn, see also [8], to be migrated
verbasintnpprob trapped depends on verregsing