scikit-matter : A Suite of Generalisable Machine Learning Methods Born out of Chemistry and Materials Science.

Journal: Open research Europe
Published Date: Sep 18, 2023

Abstract

Easy-to-use libraries such as scikit-learn have accelerated the adoption and application of machine learning (ML) workflows and data-driven methods. While many of the algorithms implemented in these libraries originated in specific scientific fields, they have gained in popularity in part because of their generalisability across multiple domains. Over the past two decades, researchers in the chemical and materials science community have put forward general-purpose machine learning methods. The deployment of these methods into workflows of other domains, however, is often burdensome due to the entanglement with domainspecific functionalities. We present the python library scikit-matter that targets domain-agnostic implementations of methods developed in the computational chemical and materials science community, following the scikit-learn API and coding guidelines to promote usability and interoperability with existing workflows.

Authors

  • Alexander Goscinski
    Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling (COSMO), Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, 1015, Switzerland.
  • Victor Paul Principe
    Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling (COSMO), Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, 1015, Switzerland.
  • Guillaume Fraux
    Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling (COSMO), Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, 1015, Switzerland.
  • Sergei Kliavinek
    Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling (COSMO), Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, 1015, Switzerland.
  • Benjamin Aaron Helfrecht
    Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling (COSMO), Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, 1015, Switzerland.
  • Philip Loche
    Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling (COSMO), Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, 1015, Switzerland.
  • Michele Ceriotti
    Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling (COSMO), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland.
  • Rose Kathleen Cersonsky
    Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling (COSMO), Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, 1015, Switzerland.

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