[scikit-learn] Using Scikit-Learn to predict magnetism in chemical systems
Tommaso Costanzo
tommaso.costanzo01 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 19:35:21 EDT 2017
Dear Henrique,
I am sorry for the poor email I wrote before. What I was saying is simply
the fact that if you are trying to use the coordinates as "features" from
an .xyz file then by machine learning you will learn at wich coordinate
certain atoms will occur so you can only make prediction on the coordinate.
However, if I correctly understood, the "features" representing the
coupling J are distance, angle, and electron number. Definitely this
properties can be derived from the XYZ file format from simple geometric
calculations and the number of electrons will depend from the type of atom.
So, what I was trying to say is that instead of using the XYZ file as input
for scikit-learn, I was suggesting to do the calculation of angle,
distances, electrons' number in advance (with other software(s) or directly
in python) and use the new calculated matrix as input for scikit-learn. In
this case the machine will learn how J(AB) varies as a function of angle,
distance, number of electrons.
For example
distance angle n el.
1 90 1
1 90 1
2 90 1
.... ... ...
If you are using a supervised learning you will have to add a 4th column (
in reality a separate column vector) with your J(AB) on which you can train
your model and then predict the unknown samples
For example
distance angle n el. J(AB)
1 90 1 1
1 90 1 1
2 90 1 0.5
.... ... ... ...
Now if you train the model on the second matrix, and then you try to
predict the first one you should expect a results like:
1
1
0.5
Of course in this case the "features" are perfectly equal, hence the
example is completely unrealistic. However, I hope that it will help to
understand what I was explaining in the previous email.
If you want you can directly contact me at this email, and I hope that you
got additional hints from Robert, that he seems to be even more
knowledgeable than me.
Sincerely
Tommaso
2017-03-27 18:44 GMT-04:00 Henrique C. S. Junior <henriquecsj at gmail.com>:
> Dear Tommaso, thank you for your kind reply.
> I know I have a lot to study before actually starting any code and that's
> why any suggestion is so valuable.
> So, you're suggesting that a simplification of the system using only the
> paramagnetic centers can be a good approach? (I'm not sure if I understood
> it correctly).
> My main idea was, at first, try to represent the systems as realistically
> as possible (using coordinates). I know that the software will not know
> what a bond is or what an intermolecular interaction is but, let's say,
> after including 1000s of examples in the training, I was expecting that (as
> an example) finding a C 0.000 and an H at 1.000 should start to "make
> sense" because it leads to an experimental trend. And I totally agree that
> my way to represent the system is not the better.
>
> Thank you so much for all the help.
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Tommaso Costanzo <
> tommaso.costanzo01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Henrique,
>>
>>
>> I agree with Robert on the use of a supervised algorithm and I would also
>> suggest you to try a semisupervised one if you have trouble in labeling
>> your data.
>>
>>
>> Moreover, as a chemist I think that the input you are thinking to use is
>> not the in the best form for machine learning because you are trying to
>> predict coupling J(AB) but in the future space you have only coordinates
>> (XYZ). What I suggest is to generate the pair of atoms externally and then
>> use a matrix of the form (Mx3), where M are the pairs of atoms you want to
>> predict your J and 3 are the features of the two atoms (distance, angle,
>> unpaired electrons). For a supervised approach you will need a training set
>> where the J is know so your training data will be of the form Mx4 and the
>> fourth feature will be the J you know.
>>
>> Hope that this is clear, if not I will be happy to help more
>>
>>
>> Sincerely
>>
>> Tommaso
>>
>> 2017-03-27 13:46 GMT-04:00 Henrique C. S. Junior <henriquecsj at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Dear Robert, thank you. Yes, I'd like to talk about some specifics on
>>> the project.
>>> Thank you again.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Robert Slater <rdslater at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You definitely can use some of the tools in sci-kit learn for
>>>> supervised machine learning. The real trick will be how well your training
>>>> system is representative of your future predictions. All of the various
>>>> regression algorithms would be of some value and you make even consider an
>>>> ensemble to help generalize. There will be some important questions to
>>>> answer--what kind of loss function do you want to look at? I assumed
>>>> regression (continuous response) but it could also classify--paramagnetic,
>>>> diamagnetic, ferromagnetic, etc...
>>>>
>>>> Another task to think about might be dimension reduction.
>>>> There is no guarantee you will get fantastic results--every problem is
>>>> unique and much will depend on exactly what you want out of the
>>>> solution--it may be that we get '10%' accuracy at best--for some systems
>>>> that is quite good, others it is horrible.
>>>>
>>>> If you'd like to talk specifics, feel free to contact me at this
>>>> email. I have a background in magnetism (PhD in magnetic multilayers--i
>>>> was physics, but as you are probably aware chemisty and physics blend in
>>>> this area) and have a fairly good knowledge of sci-kit learn and machine
>>>> learning.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Henrique C. S. Junior <
>>>> henriquecsj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm a chemist with some rudimentary programming skills (getting
>>>>> started with python) and in the middle of the year I'll be starting a Ph.D.
>>>>> project that uses computers to describe magnetism in molecular systems.
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the time I get my results after several simulations and
>>>>> experiments, so, I know that one of the hardest tasks in molecular
>>>>> magnetism is to predict the nature of magnetic interactions. That's why
>>>>> I'll try to tackle this problem with Machine Learning (because such
>>>>> interactions are dependent, basically, of distances, angles and number of
>>>>> unpaired electrons). The idea is to feed the computer with a large training
>>>>> set (with number of unpaired electrons, XYZ coordinates of each molecule
>>>>> and experimental magnetic couplings) and see if it can predict the magnetic
>>>>> couplings (J(AB)) of new systems:
>>>>> (see example in the attached image)
>>>>>
>>>>> Can Scikit-Learn handle the task, knowing that the matrix used to
>>>>> represent atomic coordinates will probably have a different number of atoms
>>>>> (because some molecules have more atoms than others)? Or is this a job
>>>>> better suited for another software/approach?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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