# ![][logo] adaptive [](https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/qt/adaptive/pipelines) [](https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/qt/adaptive/) **Tools for adaptive parallel evaluation of functions.** Adaptive is an [open-source](https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/qt/adaptive/blob/master/LICENSE) Python library designed to make adaptive parallel function evaluation simple. With adaptive, you can adaptively sample functions by only supplying (in general) a function and its bounds, and run it on a cluster in a few lines of code. Since `adaptive` knows the problem it is solving, it can plot the data for you (even live as the data returns) without any boilerplate. Check out the Adaptive [example notebook `learner.ipynb`](https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/qt/adaptive/blob/github_mirror/learner.ipynb) (or run it [live on Binder](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/python-adaptive/adaptive/master?filepath=learner.ipynb)) to see examples of how to use `adaptive`. **WARNING: `adaptive` is still in an early alpha development stage** ## Installation Adaptive works with Python 3.5 and higher on Linux, Windows, or Mac, and provides optional extensions for working with the Jupyter/IPython Notebook. The recommended way to install adaptive is using the pip: ``` pip install https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/qt/adaptive/repository/master/archive.zip ``` ## Development In order to not pollute the history with the output of the notebooks, please setup the git filter by executing ``` git config filter.nbclearoutput.clean "jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --ClearOutputPreprocessor.enabled=True --ClearOutputPreprocessor.remove_metadata_fields='[\"deletable\", \"editable\", \"collapsed\", \"scrolled\"]' --stdin --stdout" ``` in the repository. For general discussion, we have a [chat channel](https://chat.quantumtinkerer.tudelft.nl/external/channels/adaptive). If you find any bugs or have any feature suggestions please file a GitLab [issue](https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/qt/adaptive/issues/new?issue) or submit a [merge request](https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/qt/adaptive/merge_requests). [logo]: /uploads/d20444093920a4a0499e165b5061d952/logo.png "adaptive logo"