mala
Mirror of the mala repository. Please do not post issues or pull requests here. Use https://github.com/mala-project/mala instead.
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Mirror of the mala repository. Please do not post issues or pull requests here. Use https://github.com/mala-project/mala instead.
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: casus
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Language: Python
- Default Branch: develop
- Homepage: https://mala-project.github.io/mala/
- Size: 59.4 MB
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- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files
README.md

MALA
MALA (Materials Learning Algorithms) is a data-driven framework to generate surrogate models of density functional theory calculations based on machine learning. Its purpose is to enable multiscale modeling by bypassing computationally expensive steps in state-of-the-art density functional simulations.
MALA is designed as a modular and open-source python package. It enables users to perform the entire modeling toolchain using only a few lines of code. MALA is jointly developed by the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS). See Contributing for contributing code to the repository.
This repository is structured as follows:
├── examples : contains useful examples to get you started with the package
├── install : contains scripts for setting up this package on your machine
├── mala : the source code itself
├── test : test scripts used during development, will hold tests for CI in the future
└── docs : Sphinx documentation folder
Installation
WARNING: Even if you install MALA via PyPI, please consult the full installation instructions afterwards. External modules (like the QuantumESPRESSO bindings) are not distributed via PyPI!
Please refer to Installation of MALA.
Running
You can familiarize yourself with the usage of this package by running
the examples in the example/ folder.
Contributors
MALA is jointly maintained by
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), USA.
- Scientific supervisor: Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, code maintenance: Jon Vogel
- Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Germany.
- Scientific supervisor: Attila Cangi, code maintenance: Lenz Fiedler
A full list of contributors can be found here.
Citing MALA
If you publish work which uses or mentions MALA, please cite this repository and the following papers:
A. Cangi, L. Fiedler, B. Brzoza, K. Shah, T. J. Callow, D. Kotik, S. Schmerler, M. C. Barry, J. M. Goff, A. Rohskopf, D. J. Vogel, N. Modine, A. P. Thompson, S. Rajamanickam, Materials Learning Algorithms (MALA): Scalable Machine Learning for Electronic Structure Calculations in Large-Scale Atomistic Simulations, Comp. Phys. Commun. 314, 109654 (2025).
J. A. Ellis, L. Fiedler, G. A. Popoola, N. A. Modine, J. A. Stephens, A. P. Thompson, A. Cangi, S. Rajamanickam, Accelerating Finite-Temperature Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory with Deep Neural Networks, Phys. Rev. B 104, 035120 (2021).
Owner
- Name: Center for Advanced Systems Understanding
- Login: casus
- Kind: organization
- Email: m.bussmann@hzdr.de
- Location: Görlitz, Germany
- Website: www.casus.science
- Repositories: 8
- Profile: https://github.com/casus
Official Github Organization account of the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding
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- affiliation: "Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)"
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- affiliation: "Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR)"
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- affiliation: "Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)"
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family-names: Tahmasbi
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- affiliation: "Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)"
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- affiliation: "Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR)"
family-names: Verma
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- affiliation: "Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)"
family-names: Vogel
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date-released: 2025-06-02
keywords:
- "machine-learning"
- "dft"
license: "BSD-3-Clause"
repository-code: "https://github.com/mala-project/mala"
title: MALA
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5557254 # This DOI represents all versions, and will always resolve to the latest one.
version: 1.4.0
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