Third-Party Libraries & Licenses

VBI builds on a number of open-source libraries. We gratefully acknowledge their authors and list each library, its license type, and a link to the full license text below.

Core Dependencies

Library	License	License URL
NumPy	BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
SciPy	BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
Matplotlib	PSF / BSD-compatible	https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/LICENSE/LICENSE
Numba	BSD-2-Clause	https://github.com/numba/numba/blob/main/LICENSE
pandas	BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/main/LICENSE
h5py	BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/h5py/h5py/blob/master/LICENSE
NetworkX	BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/networkx/networkx/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
scikit-learn	BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/main/COPYING
autograd	MIT	https://github.com/HIPS/autograd/blob/master/license.txt
tqdm	MIT / MPL-2.0	https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/blob/master/LICENCE
Rich	MIT	https://github.com/Textualize/rich/blob/master/LICENSE
corner	MIT	https://github.com/dfm/corner.py/blob/main/LICENSE
nbconvert	BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/blob/main/LICENSE
parameterized	BSD-2-Clause	https://github.com/wolever/parameterized/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
pytest	MIT	https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/main/LICENSE

Bundled Binary Dependencies

The following library is bundled inside the VBI package as a pre-compiled JAR file (vbi/feature_extraction/infodynamics.jar) and is not installed via pip.

Library	License	License URL
JIDT — Java Information Dynamics Toolkit	GPL-3.0	https://github.com/jlizier/jidt/blob/master/LICENCE.txt

JIDT is used for information-theoretic feature extraction (transfer entropy, mutual information) via JPype. It requires a Java JDK (>= 8) to be installed on the host system; see the Installation Guide guide for details.

Optional / Inference Dependencies

Library	License	License URL
PyTorch	BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/LICENSE
sbi	Apache-2.0	https://github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
JAX	Apache-2.0	https://github.com/google/jax/blob/main/LICENSE
jaxlib	Apache-2.0	https://github.com/google/jax/blob/main/LICENSE
CuPy	MIT	https://github.com/cupy/cupy/blob/main/LICENSE
pycatch22	GPL-3.0	https://github.com/DynamicsAndNeuralSystems/pycatch22/blob/main/LICENSE

Documentation Dependencies

Library	License	License URL
Sphinx	BSD-2-Clause	https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/master/LICENSE.rst
numpydoc	BSD-2-Clause	https://github.com/numpy/numpydoc/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
nbformat	BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/jupyter/nbformat/blob/main/LICENSE
nbsphinx	MIT	https://github.com/spatialaudio/nbsphinx/blob/master/LICENSE
Furo	MIT	https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo/blob/main/LICENSE
pypandoc	MIT	https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/blob/master/LICENSE

Build Dependencies

Library	License	License URL
setuptools	MIT	https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/main/LICENSE
SWIG	GPL-3.0 with runtime exception	https://github.com/swig/swig/blob/master/LICENSE
Hatchling	MIT	https://github.com/pypa/hatch/blob/master/LICENSE.txt