Source code for dscribe.kernels.averagekernel

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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import numpy as np
from dscribe.kernels.localsimilaritykernel import LocalSimilarityKernel


[docs]class AverageKernel(LocalSimilarityKernel): """Used to compute a global similarity of structures based on the average similarity of local atomic environments in the structure. More precisely, returns the similarity kernel K as: .. math:: K(A, B) = \\frac{1}{N M}\sum_{ij} C_{ij}(A, B) where :math:`N` is the number of atoms in structure :math:`A`, :math:`M` is the number of atoms in structure :math:`B` and the similarity between local atomic environments :math:`C_{ij}` has been calculated with the pairwise metric (e.g. linear, gaussian) defined by the parameters given in the constructor. """
[docs] def get_global_similarity(self, localkernel): """ Computes the average global similarity between two structures A and B. Args: localkernel(np.ndarray): NxM matrix of local similarities between structures A and B, with N and M atoms respectively. Returns: float: Average similarity between the structures A and B. """ K_ij = np.mean(localkernel) return K_ij