## Iterative Display

### Introduction

The iterative display is a table of statistics describing the calculations in each iteration of a solver. The statistics depend on both the solver and the solver algorithm. The table appears in the MATLAB® Command Window when you run solvers with appropriate options. For more information about iterations, see Iterations and Function Counts.

Obtain the iterative display by using `optimoptions` with the `Display` option set to `'iter'` or `'iter-detailed'`. For example:

```options = optimoptions(@fminunc,'Display','iter','Algorithm','quasi-newton'); [x fval exitflag output] = fminunc(@sin,0,options);```
``` First-order Iteration Func-count f(x) Step-size optimality 0 2 0 1 1 4 -0.841471 1 0.54 2 8 -1 0.484797 0.000993 3 10 -1 1 5.62e-05 4 12 -1 1 0 Local minimum found. Optimization completed because the size of the gradient is less than the value of the optimality tolerance.```

The iterative display is available for all solvers except:

• `lsqlin` `'trust-region-reflective'` algorithm

• `lsqnonneg`

• `quadprog` `'trust-region-reflective'` algorithm

This table lists some common headings of iterative display.

`f(x)` or `Fval`

Current objective function value; for `fsolve`, the square of the norm of the function value vector

`First-order optimality`

First-order optimality measure (see First-Order Optimality Measure)

`Func-count` or `F-count`

Number of function evaluations; see Iterations and Function Counts

`Iteration` or `Iter`

Iteration number; see Iterations and Function Counts

`Norm of step`

Size of the current step (size is the Euclidean norm, or 2-norm). For the `'trust-region'` and `'trust-region-reflective'` algorithms, when constraints exist, `Norm of step` is the norm of `D*s`. Here, `s` is the step and `D` is a diagonal scaling matrix described in the trust-region subproblem section of the algorithm description.

The tables in this section describe headings of the iterative display whose meaning is specific to the optimization function you are using.

#### fgoalattain, fmincon, fminimax, and fseminf

This table describes the headings specific to `fgoalattain`, `fmincon`, `fminimax`, and `fseminf`.

fgoalattain, fmincon, fminimax, or fseminf HeadingInformation Displayed

`Attainment factor`

Value of the attainment factor for `fgoalattain`

`CG-iterations`

Number of conjugate gradient iterations taken in the current iteration (see Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Method)

```Directional derivative```

Gradient of the objective function along the search direction

`Feasibility`

Maximum constraint violation, where satisfied inequality constraints count as `0`

```Line search steplength```

Multiplicative factor that scales the search direction (see Equation 29)

`Max constraint`

Maximum violation among all constraints, both internally constructed and user-provided; can be negative when no constraint is binding

`Objective value`

Objective function value of the nonlinear programming reformulation of the minimax problem for `fminimax`

`Procedure`

Hessian update procedures:

• `Infeasible start point`

• `Hessian not updated`

• `Hessian modified`

• `Hessian modified twice`

QP subproblem procedures:

• `dependent` — The solver detected and removed dependent (redundant) equality constraints.

• `Infeasible` — The QP subproblem with linearized constraints is infeasible.

• `Overly constrained` — The QP subproblem with linearized constraints is infeasible.

• `Unbounded` — The QP subproblem is feasible with large negative curvature.

• `Ill-posed` — The QP subproblem search direction is too small.

• `Unreliable` — The QP subproblem seems to be poorly conditioned.

`Steplength`

Multiplicative factor that scales the search direction (see Equation 29)

`Trust-region radius`

#### fminbnd and fzero

This table describes the headings specific to `fminbnd` and `fzero`.

`Procedure`

Procedures for `fminbnd`:

• `initial`

• `golden` (golden section search)

• `parabolic` (parabolic interpolation)

Procedures for `fzero`:

• `initial` (initial point)

• `search` (search for an interval containing a zero)

• `bisection`

• `interpolation` (linear interpolation or inverse quadratic interpolation)

`x`

Current point for the algorithm

#### fminsearch

This table describes the headings specific to `fminsearch`.

`min f(x)`

Minimum function value in the current simplex

`Procedure`

Simplex procedure at the current iteration. Procedures include:

• `initial simplex`

• `expand`

• `reflect`

• `shrink`

• `contract inside`

• `contract outside`

For details, see fminsearch Algorithm.

#### fminunc

This table describes the headings specific to `fminunc`.

`CG-iterations`

Number of conjugate gradient iterations taken in the current iteration (see Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Method)

```Line search steplength```

Multiplicative factor that scales the search direction (see Equation 11)

The `fminunc` `'quasi-newton'` algorithm can issue a ```skipped update``` message to the right of the ```First-order optimality``` column. This message means that `fminunc` did not update its Hessian estimate, because the resulting matrix would not have been positive definite. The message usually indicates that the objective function is not smooth at the current point.

#### fsolve

This table describes the headings specific to `fsolve`.

```Directional derivative```

Gradient of the function along the search direction

`Lambda`

λk value defined in Levenberg-Marquardt Method

`Residual`

Residual (sum of squares) of the function

`Trust-region radius`

#### intlinprog

This table describes the headings specific to `intlinprog`.

`nodes explored`

Cumulative number of explored nodes

`total time (s)`

Time in seconds since `intlinprog` started

`num int solution`

Number of integer feasible points found

`integer fval`

Objective function value of the best integer feasible point found. This value is an upper bound for the final objective function value

`relative gap (%)`

$\frac{100\left(b-a\right)}{|b|+1},$

where

• b is the objective function value of the best integer feasible point.

• a is the best lower bound on the objective function value.

Note

Although you specify `RelativeGapTolerance` as a decimal number, the iterative display and `output.relativegap` report the gap as a percentage, meaning 100 times the measured relative gap. If the exit message refers to the relative gap, this value is the measured relative gap, not a percentage.

#### linprog

This table describes the headings specific to `linprog`. Each algorithm has its own iterative display.

`Primal Infeas A*x-b` or `Primal Infeas`

Primal infeasibility, a measure of the constraint violations, which should be zero at a solution.

For definitions, see Predictor-Corrector (`'interior-point'`) or Main Algorithm (`'interior-point-legacy'`) or Dual-Simplex Algorithm.

`Dual Infeas A'*y+z-w-f` or `Dual Infeas`

Dual infeasibility, a measure of the derivative of the Lagrangian, which should be zero at a solution.

For the definition of the Lagrangian, see Predictor-Corrector. For the definition of dual infeasibility, see Predictor-Corrector (`'interior-point'`) or Main Algorithm (`'interior-point-legacy'`) or Dual-Simplex Algorithm.

`Upper Bounds {x}+s-ub`

Upper bound feasibility. {x} means those x with finite upper bounds. This value is the ru residual in Interior-Point-Legacy Linear Programming.

`Duality Gap x'*z+s'*w`

Duality gap (see Interior-Point-Legacy Linear Programming) between the primal objective and the dual objective. `s` and `w` appear in this equation only if the problem has finite upper bounds.

`Total Rel Error`

Total relative error, described at the end of Main Algorithm

`Complementarity`

A measure of the Lagrange multipliers times distance from the bounds, which should be zero at a solution. See the rc variable in Stopping Conditions.

`Time`

Time in seconds that `linprog` has been running

#### lsqlin

The `lsqlin` `'interior-point'` iterative display is inherited from the `quadprog` iterative display. The relationship between these functions is explained in Linear Least Squares: Interior-Point or Active-Set. For iterative display details, see quadprog.

#### lsqnonlin and lsqcurvefit

This table describes the headings specific to `lsqnonlin` and `lsqcurvefit`.

```Directional derivative```

Gradient of the function along the search direction

`Lambda`

λk value defined in Levenberg-Marquardt Method

`Resnorm`

Value of the squared 2-norm of the residual at `x`

`Residual`

Residual vector of the function

This table describes the headings specific to `quadprog`. Only the `'interior-point-convex'` algorithm has the iterative display.

`Primal Infeas`

Primal infeasibility, defined as ```max( norm(Aeq*x - beq, inf), abs(min(0, min(A*x-b))) )```

`Dual Infeas`

Dual infeasibility, defined as ```norm(H*x + f - A*lambda_ineqlin - Aeq*lambda_eqlin, inf)```

`Complementarity`

A measure of the maximum absolute value of the Lagrange multipliers of inactive inequalities, which should be zero at a solution. This quantity is g in Infeasibility Detection.