---
title: "Running the `DISCent` Model with Particle Swarm Optimizer Metaheuristic Search"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
  %\VignetteIndexEntry{psoextension}
  %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
  %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
---

```{r, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)
```

```{r setup}
library(discent)
```


# Overview
- PSO is being used to find best start parameters 
- Swarm made up of particles 
- Swarm object 
  - swarm steps = time limit of search/swarm moves
  - swarm size = number of particles 
      - for each particle, there is a grad descent step considered