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Smoothing value for smoothed penalty functions


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**Specification**

- *Alias:* None

- *Arguments:* REAL

- *Default:* 0.0


**Description**



- ``smoothing_parameter``: initial smoothing value for smoothed penalty functions, must be between 0 and 1 (inclusive)