diff --git a/src/Flux.jl b/src/Flux.jl
index 7c72cbbc..d285b5a9 100644
--- a/src/Flux.jl
+++ b/src/Flux.jl
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ export Tracker, TrackedArray, TrackedVector, TrackedMatrix, param
 include("optimise/Optimise.jl")
 using .Optimise
 using .Optimise: @epochs
-export Descent, ADAM, Momentum, Nesterov, RMSProp,
-	   ADAGrad, AdaMax, ADADelta, AMSGrad, NADAM,
-	   ADAMW, InvDecay, ExpDecay, WeightDecay
+export SGD, Descent, ADAM, Momentum, Nesterov, RMSProp,
+  ADAGrad, AdaMax, ADADelta, AMSGrad, NADAM,
+  ADAMW, InvDecay, ExpDecay, WeightDecay
 
 include("utils.jl")
 include("onehot.jl")
diff --git a/src/optimise/Optimise.jl b/src/optimise/Optimise.jl
index cf12a3c3..5bb38d1e 100644
--- a/src/optimise/Optimise.jl
+++ b/src/optimise/Optimise.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module Optimise
 
 export train!,
-	Descent, ADAM, Momentum, Nesterov, RMSProp,
+	SGD, Descent, ADAM, Momentum, Nesterov, RMSProp,
 	ADAGrad, AdaMax, ADADelta, AMSGrad, NADAM, ADAMW,
 	InvDecay, ExpDecay, WeightDecay, stop, Optimiser
 
diff --git a/src/optimise/deprecations.jl b/src/optimise/deprecations.jl
index 8529799f..d04a5447 100644
--- a/src/optimise/deprecations.jl
+++ b/src/optimise/deprecations.jl
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ function updaterule(opt, ps)
   end
 end
 
-function Descent(params::AbstractArray, η = 0.1; decay = 0.)
-  depwarn("Descent(params) is deprecated; use Descent(η::Float64) instead", :Descent)
+function SGD(params::AbstractArray, η = 0.1; decay = 0.)
+  depwarn("SGD(params) is deprecated; use Descent(η::Float64) instead", :SGD)
 
   ps = params
   opt = Descent(η)