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+# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class PyOptax(PythonPackage):
+    """A gradient processing and optimization library in JAX."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/deepmind/optax"
+    pypi = "optax/optax-0.1.4.tar.gz"
+
+    version("0.1.4", sha256="fb7a0550d57a6636164a3de25986a8a19be8ff6431fcdf1225b4e05175810f22")
+
+    depends_on("python@3.8:", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-setuptools", type="build")
+
+    depends_on("py-absl-py@0.7.1:", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-chex@0.1.5:", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-jax@0.1.55:", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-jaxlib@0.1.37:", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-numpy@1.18:", type=("build", "run"))