Predicting Poisson's Ratio: A Study of Semisupervised Anomaly Detection and Supervised Approaches

Auxetics are a rare class of materials that exhibit a negative Poisson's ratio. The existence of these auxetic materials is rare but has a large number of applications in the design of exotic materials. We build a complete machine learning framework to detect Auxetic materials as well as Poisson's ratio of non-auxetic materials. A semisupervised anomaly detection model is presented, which is capable of separating out the auxetics materials (treated as an anomaly) from an unknown database with an average precision of 0.64. Another regression model (supervised) is also created to predict the Poisson's ratio of non-auxetic materials with an R² of 0.82. Additionally, this regression model helps us to find the optimal features for the anomaly detection model. This methodology can be generalized and used to discover materials with rare physical properties.