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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

mlf-core: a framework for deterministic machine learning.

Lukas Heumos, Philipp Ehmele, Luis Kuhn Cuellar, Kevin Menden, Edmund Miller, Steffen Lemke, Gisela Gabernet, Sven Nahnsen

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Lukas HeumosQuantitative Biology Center (QBiC), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany.
Philipp EhmeleDepartment of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany.
Luis Kuhn CuellarQuantitative Biology Center (QBiC), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6950-6929
Kevin MendenQuantitative Biology Center (QBiC), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany.
Edmund MillerDepartment of Biological Sciences and Center for Systems Biology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75205, United States.
Steffen LemkeQuantitative Biology Center (QBiC), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany.
Gisela GabernetQuantitative Biology Center (QBiC), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7049-9474
Sven NahnsenQuantitative Biology Center (QBiC), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany.

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motivationMachine learning has shown extensive growth in recent years and is now routinely applied to sensitive areas. To allow appropriate verification of predictive models before deployment, models must be deterministic. Solely fixing all random seeds is not sufficient for deterministic machine learning, as major machine learning libraries default to the usage of nondeterministic algorithms based on atomic operations.

resultsVarious machine learning libraries released deterministic counterparts to the nondeterministic algorithms. We evaluated the effect of these algorithms on determinism and runtime. Based on these results, we formulated a set of requirements for deterministic machine learning and developed a new software solution, the mlf-core ecosystem, which aids machine learning projects to meet and keep these requirements. We applied mlf-core to develop deterministic models in various biomedical fields including a single-cell autoencoder with TensorFlow, a PyTorch-based U-Net model for liver-tumor segmentation in computed tomography scans, and a liver cancer classifier based on gene expression profiles with XGBoost. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The complete data together with the implementations of the mlf-core ecosystem and use case models are available at https://github.com/mlf-core.

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