From 109a017b6e76f14f641af59d986672af36df9568 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Awni Hannun <awni@apple.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 07:55:25 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] citation + acks section

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 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md |  8 ++++++++
 README.md          | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
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+# Individual Contributors
+
+If you wish to be acknowledged for your contributions, please list your name
+with a short description of your contribution(s) below. For example:
+
+- Jane Smith: Added the `foo` example.
+
+MLX Examples was developed with contributions from the following individuals:
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 ## Contributing 
 
-Check out the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information
-on contributing to this repo.
+We are grateful for all of [our
+contributors](ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md#Individual-Contributors). If you contribute
+to MLX and wish to be acknowledged, please add your name to to the list in your
+pull request.
+
+## Citing MLX Examples
+
+The MLX software suite was initially developed with equal contribution by Awni
+Hannun, Jagrit Digani, Angelos Katharopoulos, and Ronan Collobert. If you find
+MLX useful in your research and wish to cite it, please use the following
+BibTex entry:
+
+```
+@software{mlx2023,
+  author = {Awni Hannun and Jagrit Digani and Angelos Katharopoulos and Ronan Collobert},
+  title = {{MLX}: Efficient and flexible machine learning on Apple silicon},
+  url = {https://github.com/ml-explore},
+  version = {0.0},
+  year = {2023},
+}
+```