IHS_DATASET
Generate IHS Datasets

IHS_DATASET is a MATLAB program which creates an IHS dataset.

A Latin hypercube, in M dimensional space, with N points, can be thought of as being constructed by dividing each of the M coordinate dimensions into N equal intervals. The J-th coordinate of the I-th point can be constructed by choosing, in the J-th dimension, an interval that has not been used, and then choosing any value in that interval.

This algorithm differs in that it tries to pick a solution which has the property that the points are "spread out" as evenly as possible. It does this by determining an optimal even spacing, and using the duplication factor D to allow it to choose the best of the various options available to it (the more duplication, the better chance of optimization).

One drawback to this algorithm is that it requires an internal real distance array of dimension D * N * N. For a relatively moderate problem with N = 1000, this can exceed the easily accessible memory. Moreover, the program is inherently quadratic in N in execution time as well as memory; the computation of the I-th point in the set of N requires a consideration of the value of the coordinates used up by the previous points, and the distances from each of those points to the candidates for the next point.

The program is interactive, and allows the user to choose

M, the spatial dimension;
N, the number of points to generate;
D, the duplication factor.
SEED, a seed for UNIFORM, the portable uniform random number generator used to make choices.

Once these parameters are set, the program generates the data, and writes it to a file. The user may then specify another set of data, or terminate the program.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

IHS_DATASET is available in a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

FAURE_DATASET, a MATLAB program which creates a Faure quasirandom dataset;

GRID_DATASET, a MATLAB program which creates a grid sequence and writes it to a file.

LATIN_CENTER_DATASET, a MATLAB program which creates a Latin Center Hypercube dataset;

LATIN_EDGE_DATASET, a MATLAB program which creates a Latin Edge Hypercube dataset;

LATIN_RANDOM_DATASET, a MATLAB program which creates a Latin Random Hypercube dataset;

IHS, a MATLAB library which supplies the computational routines needed by IHS_DATASET.

IHS, a dataset directory which contains sample datasets created by IHS_DATASET.

NIEDERREITER2_DATASET, a MATLAB program which creates a Niederreiter quasirandom dataset with base 2;

NORMAL_DATASET, a MATLAB program which generates a dataset of multivariate normal pseudorandom values and writes them to a file.

SOBOL_DATASET, a MATLAB program which computes a Sobol quasirandom sequence and writes it to a file.

UNIFORM_DATASET, a MATLAB program which generates a dataset of uniform pseudorandom values and writes them to a file.

VAN_DER_CORPUT_DATASET, a MATLAB program which creates a van der Corput quasirandom sequence and writes it to a file.

Reference:

Brian Beachkofski, Ramana Grandhi,
Improved Distributed Hypercube Sampling,
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Paper 2002-1274.

Source Code:

ihs_dataset.m, generates an IHS dataset and writes it to a file.

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