
.. _citation:


Theano Citation Policy
======================

If you use Theano for academic research, you are highly encouraged (though not
required) to cite the following two papers:

* F. Bastien, P. Lamblin, R. Pascanu, J. Bergstra, I. Goodfellow,
  A. Bergeron, N. Bouchard, D. Warde-Farley and Y. Bengio.
  `"Theano: new features and speed improvements"
  <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.5590.pdf>`_.
  NIPS 2012 deep learning workshop. (`BibTex
  <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/publications2/index.php/export/publication/551/bibtex>`_)

* J. Bergstra, O. Breuleux, F. Bastien, P. Lamblin, R.
  Pascanu, G. Desjardins, J. Turian, D. Warde-Farley and Y.
  Bengio. `"Theano: A CPU and GPU Math Expression Compiler"
  <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/pointeurs/theano_scipy2010.pdf>`_.
  *Proceedings of the Python for Scientific Computing Conference (SciPy)
  2010. June 30 - July 3, Austin, TX* (`BibTeX
  <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/publications2/index.php/export/publication/461/bibtex>`_)

Theano is primarily developed by academics, and so citations matter a lot to
us. As an added benefit, you increase Theano's exposure and potential user
(and developer) base, which is to the benefit of all users of Theano. Thanks
in advance!

Previously, we only asked users of Theano to cite the original 2010 paper. However,
this policy did not give appropriate credit to the many members of our community
who have contributed to Theano in the meantime.

In the future, we intend to introduce new papers periodically (hopefully approximately
once per year) with a comprehensive author list. As soon as one of these papers is
prepared, we will only ask for users to cite the single most recent paper with the
most comprehensive author list.



