Dakota Reference Manual: best_fitness_tracker

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best_fitness_tracker

Tracks the best fitness of the population

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): none

Child Keywords:

| Required/Optional | Description of Group | Dakota Keyword | Dakota Keyword Description
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
| Optional | percent_change | Define the convergence criterion for JEGA methods
| Optional | num_generations | Define the convergence criterion for JEGA methods

## Description

The `best_fitness_tracker` tracks the best fitness in the population. Convergence occurs after `num_generations` has passed and there has been less than `percent_change` in the best fitness value. The percent change can be as low as 0% in which case there must be no change at all over the number of generations.

## See Also

These keywords may also be of interest:

- average_fitness_tracker