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Improve handling of randomness in multistart sampling and documentation
This enhancement was suggested by Johannes Schmieder
Current Situation
The default sampling method in multistart optimization is a non-randomized sobol sampling. This is unexpected for users and a problem if someone runs multiple multistart optimizations that have different initial samples.
Describe the solution you'd like
Use a scrambled sobol sequence or some other sampling method (e.g. latin hypercube) as default.
Additional enhancement
Make it clearer in the documentation of multistart optimization how many optimizations will be run and how the settings influence this.