Dakota Reference Manual: num_restarts

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num_restarts

Number of optimization restarts for L-BFGS-B

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): INTEGER

## Description

Number of optimization runs at random initial guesses for maximum likelihood estimation. Multiple restarts are used to increase the chance of finding the global minimum with a gradient-based (i.e. local) optimization method.

Default Behavior Default value of 20 restarts.