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-# MadMiner
+# MadMiner: An inference toolkit for particle physics
**Johann Brehmer, Felix Kling, Irina Espejo, and Kyle Cranmer**
-Mining gold from MadGraph to improve limit setting in particle physics.
-
-Note that this is an early development version. Do not expect anything to be stable. If you have any questions, please
-contact us at [johann.brehmer@nyu.edu](johann.brehmer@nyu.edu).
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+[johann.brehmer@nyu.edu](johann.brehmer@nyu.edu).*
+
## Introduction
Particle physics processes are usually modelled with complex Monte-Carlo simulations of the hard process, parton shower,
