JaxPM/README.md

# JaxPM
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JAX-powered Cosmological Particle-Mesh N-body Solver

**This project is currently in an early design phased. All inputs are welcome on the [design document](https://github.com/DifferentiableUniverseInitiative/JaxPM/blob/main/design.md)**

## Goals

Provide a modern infrastructure to support differentiable PM N-body simulations using JAX:
- Keep implementation simple and readable, in pure NumPy API
- Transparent distribution using builtin `xmap`
- Any order forward and backward automatic differentiation
- Support automated batching using `vmap`
- Compatibility with external optimizer libraries like `optax`

## Open development and use

Current expectations are:
- This project is and will remain open source, and usable without any restrictions for any purposes
- Will be a simple publication on [The Journal of Open Source Software](https://joss.theoj.org/)
- Everyone is welcome to contribute, and can join the JOSS publication (until it is submitted to the journal).
- Anyone (including main contributors) can use this code as a framework to build and publish their own applications, with no expectation that they *need* to extend authorship to all jaxpm developers.


## Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people ([emoji key](https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/emoji-key)):

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    <td align="center"><a href="http://flanusse.net"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/861591?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>Francois Lanusse</b></sub></a><br /><a href="#ideas-EiffL" title="Ideas, Planning, & Feedback">🤔</a></td>
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This project follows the [all-contributors](https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors) specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!