Release v1.0.0

Co-authored-by: Jose Gallego <jgalle29@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Juan Ramirez <juan43.ramirez@gmail.com>

Author: 3 people

CITATION.cff

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ keywords:
   - pytorch
   - machine learning
 license: MIT
-version: 0.1.0
+version: 1.0.0
 date-released: '2025-04-01'
 preferred-citation:
   type: article

README.md

@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ We appreciate all contributions. Please let us know if you encounter a bug by [f
 
 If you plan to contribute new features, utility functions, or extensions, please first open an issue and discuss the feature with us. To learn more about making a contribution to **Cooper**, please see our [Contribution page](https://cooper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CONTRIBUTING.html).
 
+## Papers Using **Cooper**
+
+**Cooper** has enabled several papers published at top machine learning conferences: [Gallego-Posada et al. (2022)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04425); [Lachapelle and Lacoste-Julien (2022)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07732); [Ramirez and Gallego-Posada (2022)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04144); [Zhu et al. (2023)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08106); [Hashemizadeh et al. (2024)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20673); [Sohrabi et al. (2024)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04558); [Lachapelle et al. (2024)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04890); [Jang et al. (2024)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10289); [Navarin et al. (2024)](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10650578); [Chung et al. (2024)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01216).
+
 
 ## Acknowledgements
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ maintainers = [
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 classifiers = [
-    "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
+    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
     "Intended Audience :: Developers",
     "Intended Audience :: Education",
     "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",