# Descent

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Descent is a package for performing first-order optimization in python.

Documentation (work in progress) is available at [descent.readthedocs.org](http://descent.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).

## Installation
To install, grab the latest release using `pip`:

```bash
$ pip install descent
```

## Contact
For bugs, comments, concerns: use the Github issue tracker.

Author: [Niru Maheswaranathan](http://niru.org/), nirum [a] stanford.edu

## License
MIT. See `LICENSE.md`

## Requirements

- Python 3.5+
- [numpy](http://www.numpy.org)
- [toolz](https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz)
- [multipledispatch](https://github.com/mrocklin/multipledispatch)
- [future](http://python-future.org/index.html)
