Authors
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| `Felix Rios <https://felixleopoldo.github.io>`_
| `Department of Paediatrics, Division of Biomedical Data Science <https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/sites/bids/people.html>`_
| NUS Singapore


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| `Giusi Moffa <https://dmi.unibas.ch/en/persons/moffa-giusi/>`_
| `Department of Mathematics and Computer Science <https://dmi.unibas.ch/en/>`_
| University of Basel, Switzerland

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| `Jack Kuipers <https://bsse.ethz.ch/cbg/group/people/person-detail.MjA3Mjc0.TGlzdC81MTYsOTQ0ODM3Mzc2.html>`_
| `Department of Biosystems Science and Eng. <https://bsse.ethz.ch/>`_
| ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Contributors
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| `James Cussens <https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/james-cussens>`_
| `Department of Computer Science <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/departments/computerscience/>`_
| University of Bristol, UK

| `Mohamad Elmasri <https://sites.google.com/view/mohamadelmasri/home>`_
| `Department of Statistical Sciences  <https://www.statistics.utoronto.ca/>`_
| University of Toronto, Canada

| `Gomathi Lakshmanan <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gomathi-l/>`_
| Intern at `A-Star <https://www.a-star.edu.sg/>`_
| A*Star, Singapore

| Aditya Singh
| `Department of Computer Science <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/departments/computerscience/>`_
| University of Bristol, UK

| `Damian Machlanski <https://dmachlanski.com/>`_
| Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
| University of Essex, UK

Credits
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We would like to thank all the developers and researchers who made their software available open-source.

Contributing
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To add more algorithms, datasets or other functionalities fork the repository https://github.com/felixleopoldo/benchpress.
For new feature ideas, problems, bug reporting, or questions please raise an issue or start a discussion there. 

Benchpress in research
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- `Mohamad Elmasri. Parallel Sampling of Decomposable Graphs Using Markov Chains on Junction Trees. <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01621459.2024.2388908>`_ *Journal of the American Statistical Association*, 2024
- `Ruta Binkyte, Carlos Antonio Pinzón, Szilvia Lestyán, Kangsoo Jung, Héber Hwang Arcolezi, Catuscia Palamidessi. Causal Discovery Under Local Privacy. <https://proceedings.mlr.press/v236/binkyte24a.html>`_ *Proceedings of the Third Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning*, PMLR 236:325-383, 2024. 
- `Damian Machlanski, Spyridon Samothrakis, Paul S Clarke. Robustness of Algorithms for Causal Structure Learning to Hyperparameter Choice. <https://proceedings.mlr.press/v236/machlanski24a.html>`_ *Proceedings of the Third Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning*, PMLR 236:703-739, 2024. 

Citing
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BibTeX entry for citing Benchpress:

.. code:: bibtex

    @Article{rios2025benchpress,
        author = {Felix L. Rios and Giusi Moffa and Jack Kuipers},
        title = {{Benchpress}: A Versatile Platform for Structure Learning in Causal and Probabilistic Graphical Models},
        journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {114},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1--43},
        doi = {10.18637/jss.v114.i12}
    }

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