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package org.ddogleg.optimization.functions;

/**
 * @author Peter Abeles
 */
public interface CoupledJacobian {

	/**
	 * Number of input parameters being optimized.
	 */
	public int getN();

	/**
	 * Number of functions.
	 */
	public int getM();

	/**
	 * Specifies the input parameters.  The user can modify these values and they will be modified inside the
	 * optimization function too.
	 *
	 * @param x Optimization parameters.
	 */
	public void setInput(double[] x);
	
	public void computeFunctions( double[] output );

	/**
	 * 

	 * Processes the input parameters into the 2D Jacobian matrix.  The matrix has a dimension of M rows and N columns
	 * and is formatted as a row major 1D-array.  EJML can be used to provide a matrix wrapper around
	 * the output array: DenseMatrix J = DenseMatrix.wrap(m,n,output);
	 * 
	 *
	 * 

	 * The user can modify the input parameters here and the optimizer must use those changes.
	 * 
	 *
	 * @param jacobian Row major array with M rows and N columns.
	 */
	public void computeJacobian( double[] jacobian );
}