>

            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">objective_opt</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">parents_opt</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">results_opt</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">links_opt</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">gamma_opt</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">diff_g</span>

        <span class="c1"># Parallelizing over annealing steps</span>
        <span class="n">a