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 normflow
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 This package contains utilities for the implementation of the method of
 normalizing flows as a generative model for lattice field theory.
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 where ``nranks`` specifies the number of GPUs.
 
 
-| Created by Javad Komijani on 2021
+| Created by Javad Komijani in 2021
 | Copyright (C) 2021-24, Javad Komijani