# Enum: SweepSeeding 




_How each point of a parameter sweep (Exploration) obtains its initial state. Determines whether the sweep points are independent (and therefore parallelisable) or whether the trajectory follows a solution branch as the swept parameter is changed quasi-statically. The latter is forward-time-integration branch following — distinct from numerical continuation of equilibria (the Continuation class), which tracks branches with a Newton corrector rather than by simulation._



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URI: [tvbo:enum/SweepSeeding](https://w3id.org/tvbo/enum/SweepSeeding)

## Permissible Values
| Value | Meaning | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| independent | None | Points are order-independent and may be evaluated in parallel (see parallel_m... |
| from_previous | None | Each point is seeded from the final state of the preceding point, so the traj... |




## Slots

| Name | Description |
| ---  | --- |
| [sweep_seeding](../slots/sweep_seeding.qmd) | How each sweep point's initial state is obtained |










## Identifier and Mapping Information





### Schema Source


* from schema: https://w3id.org/tvbo






## LinkML Source

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```yaml
name: SweepSeeding
description: How each point of a parameter sweep (Exploration) obtains its initial
  state. Determines whether the sweep points are independent (and therefore parallelisable)
  or whether the trajectory follows a solution branch as the swept parameter is changed
  quasi-statically. The latter is forward-time-integration branch following — distinct
  from numerical continuation of equilibria (the Continuation class), which tracks
  branches with a Newton corrector rather than by simulation.
from_schema: https://w3id.org/tvbo
rank: 1000
permissible_values:
  independent:
    text: independent
    description: 'Points are order-independent and may be evaluated in parallel (see
      parallel_mode). Default. Independent of each OTHER, which is not the same as
      each cold-starting: where the experiment declares a transient, the settle is
      integrated once and every point opens from the state it reached, so what is
      shared between points is a settled state rather than a running trajectory. That
      is sound while the swept parameter does not change the approach, and unsound
      wherever the sweep crosses a bifurcation, since a point then inherits an attractor
      it would not have reached on its own. A settle per point would make the name
      literal and is not what the emitter does today; read this as the guarantee it
      gives rather than the one the word suggests.'
  from_previous:
    text: from_previous
    description: Each point is seeded from the final state of the preceding point,
      so the trajectory follows the solution branch as the swept parameter changes
      quasi-statically. Forces sequential, order-dependent execution (emitted as a
      scan, not a vmap). Used to reach a working point by slowly ramping a parameter
      (e.g. global coupling) and, with sweep_direction, to expose hysteresis / multistability.
      Sweep-granularity analogue of InitialStateMethod.from_branch.

```
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