1Blurb:: 2File containing points you wish to use to build a surrogate 3 4Description:: 5The \c import_build_points_file allows the user to specify a file that 6contains a list of points and truth model responses used to construct 7a surrogate model. These can be used by all methods that (explicitly, 8e.g. surrogate-based optimization, or implicitly, e.g. efficient 9global optimization) operate on a surrogate. In particular, these 10points and responses are used in place of truth model evaluations to 11construct the initial surrogate. When used to construct surrogate 12models or emulators these are often called build points or training 13data. 14 15<b> Default Behavior </b> 16 17By default, methods do not import points from a file. 18 19<b> Usage Tips </b> 20 21Dakota parses input files without regard to whitespace, but the 22import_build_points_file must be in one of three formats: 23\li \c annotated (default) 24\li \c custom_annotated 25\li \c freeform 26 27Topics:: 28Examples:: 29\verbatim 30method 31 polynomial_chaos 32 expansion_order = 4 33 import_build_points_file = 'dakota_uq_rosenbrock_pce_import.annot.pts.dat' 34\endverbatim 35Theory:: 36Faq:: 37See_Also:: 38