Add optional import of pathos for more robust multiprocessing support

[parenthetical-e]

The multiprocessingbuilt-in uses pickle, which fails for functions defined outside the top-level of a module.

Although not perhaps the best idea, it can be convenient to define a loss function inside another function, leading to a closure of shared/'global' parameters from one to the other. pickle fails here.

In this request, I've added an optional import of the pathos multiprocessing lib, which uses dill -
a more flexible serialization option.