Recreation of the periodic table with an unsupervised machine learning algorithm.

ABSTRACT: In 1869, the first draft of the periodic table was published by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. In terms of data science, his achievement can be viewed as a successful example of feature embedding based on human cognition: chemical properties of all known elements at that time were compressed onto the two-dimensional grid system for a tabular display. In this study, we seek to answer the question of whether machine learning can reproduce or recreate the periodic table by using observed physicochemical properties of the elements. To achieve this goal, we developed a periodic table generator (PTG). The PTG is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm based on the generative topographic mapping, which can automate the translation of high-dimensional data into a tabular form with varying la

SUBMITTER: Kusaba M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7910619 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature