Predicting steel yield strength from composition

Predict the yield strength of a steel in MPa from its chemical formula alone, over 312 measured alloys.

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How results are judged

Task: Predict steel yield strength from composition
Metric: MAE (MPa), lower is better
Baseline: Best on the Matbench leaderboard (TPOT-Mat): 79.9468
Verifier: version 1
Status: Open No route has been scored yet

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Partition	Time limit	CPUs	Memory	GPUs
main	01:00:00 default 00:10:00	4	8192.0 MB	0

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