Optimization control options — sdmTMBcontrol • sdmTMB

sdmTMB() and stats::nlminb() control options.

Usage

sdmTMBcontrol(
  eval.max = 2000L,
  iter.max = 1000L,
  normalize = FALSE,
  nlminb_loops = 1L,
  newton_loops = 1L,
  mgcv = deprecated(),
  quadratic_roots = FALSE,
  start = NULL,
  map_rf = deprecated(),
  map = NULL,
  lower = NULL,
  upper = NULL,
  censored_upper = NULL,
  multiphase = TRUE,
  profile = FALSE,
  get_joint_precision = TRUE,
  parallel = getOption("sdmTMB.cores", 1L),
  ...
)

Arguments

eval.max: Maximum number of evaluations of the objective function allowed.
iter.max: Maximum number of iterations allowed.
normalize: Logical: use TMB::normalize() to normalize the process likelihood using the Laplace approximation? Can result in a substantial speed boost in some cases. This used to default to FALSE prior to May 2021. Currently not working for models fit with REML or random intercepts.
nlminb_loops: How many times to run stats::nlminb() optimization. Sometimes restarting the optimizer at the previous best values aids convergence. If the maximum gradient is still too large, try increasing this to 2.
newton_loops: How many Newton optimization steps to try after running stats::nlminb(). This sometimes aids convergence by further reducing the log-likelihood gradient with respect to the fixed effects. This calculates the Hessian at the current MLE with stats::optimHess() using a finite-difference approach and uses this to update the fixed effect estimates.
mgcv: Deprecated Parse the formula with mgcv::gam()?
quadratic_roots: Experimental feature for internal use right now; may be moved to a branch. Logical: should quadratic roots be calculated? Note: on the sdmTMB side, the first two coefficients are used to generate the quadratic parameters. This means that if you want to generate a quadratic profile for depth, and depth and depth^2 are part of your formula, you need to make sure these are listed first and that an intercept isn't included. For example, formula = cpue ~ 0 + depth + depth2 + as.factor(year).
start: A named list specifying the starting values for parameters. You can see the necessary structure by fitting the model once and inspecting your_model$tmb_obj$env$parList(). Elements of start that are specified will replace the default starting values.
map_rf: Deprecated use spatial = 'off', spatiotemporal = 'off' in sdmTMB().
map: A named list with factor NAs specifying parameter values that should be fixed at a constant value. See the documentation in TMB::MakeADFun(). This should usually be used with start to specify the fixed value.
lower: An optional named list of lower bounds within the optimization. Parameter vectors with the same name (e.g., b_j or ln_kappa in some cases) can be specified as a numeric vector. E.g. lower = list(b_j = c(-5, -5)).
upper: An optional named list of upper bounds within the optimization.
censored_upper: An optional vector of upper bounds for sdmTMBcontrol(). Values of NA indicate an unbounded right-censored to distribution, values greater that the observation indicate and upper bound, and values equal to the observation indicate no censoring.
multiphase: Logical: estimate the fixed and random effects in phases? Phases are usually faster and more stable.
profile: Logical: should population-level/fixed effects be profiled out of the likelihood? These are then appended to the random effects vector without the Laplace approximation. See TMB::MakeADFun(). This can dramatically speed up model fit if there are many fixed effects but is experimental at this stage.
get_joint_precision: Logical. Passed to getJointPrecision in TMB::sdreport(). Must be TRUE to use simulation-based methods in predict.sdmTMB() or [get_index_sims()]. If not needed, setting this FALSE will reduce object size.
parallel: Argument currently ignored. For parallel processing with 3 cores, as an example, use TMB::openmp(n = 3, DLL = "sdmTMB"). But be careful, because it's not always faster with more cores and there is definitely an upper limit.
...: Anything else. See the 'Control parameters' section of stats::nlminb().

Value

A list of control arguments

Details

Usually used within sdmTMB(). For example:

sdmTMB(..., control = sdmTMBcontrol(newton_loops = 2))

Examples

sdmTMBcontrol()
#> $eval.max
#> [1] 2000
#> 
#> $iter.max
#> [1] 1000
#> 
#> $normalize
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $nlminb_loops
#> [1] 1
#> 
#> $newton_loops
#> [1] 1
#> 
#> $profile
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $quadratic_roots
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $start
#> NULL
#> 
#> $map
#> NULL
#> 
#> $lower
#> NULL
#> 
#> $upper
#> NULL
#> 
#> $censored_upper
#> NULL
#> 
#> $multiphase
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $parallel
#> [1] 1
#> 
#> $get_joint_precision
#> [1] TRUE
#>