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[xiaohang007]

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[gmrigna]

Dear Hang,
I have recently become aware of your work. First of all, let me congratulate you! It is really nice. It is the first very meaningful reconstruction rate!!
I have installed it on my mac (despite the warning because I would like to discover first how the graphs part works) but I have an error message which seems to be related to M3GNet:
File /opt/homebrew/anaconda3/envs/slices_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/keras/src/saving/saving_api.py:237, in load_weights(model, filepath, skip_mismatch, **kwargs) 235 legacy_h5_format.load_weights_from_hdf5_group(f, model) 236 else: --> 237 raise ValueError( 238 f"File format not supported: filepath={filepath}. " 239 "Keras 3 only supports V3 .kerasand.weights.h5" 240 "files, or legacy V1/V2.h5` files."
241 )

ValueError: File format not supported: filepath=/opt/homebrew/anaconda3/envs/slices_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/m3gnet/models/MP-2021.2.8-EFS/m3gnet. Keras 3 only supports V3 .keras and .weights.h5 files, or legacy V1/V2 .h5 files.`
Do you have any hint?

[xiaohang007]

Dear Prof. Rignanese,
Thank you very much for your interest on SLICES.
I haven't seen this error before, and solving this issue on Mac might be challenging.
Fortunately, you can utilize our Docker image to run SLICES on a Mac. An English video tutorial is available at here covering how to set up the Docker environment, execute examples, and perform inverse design tasks. Additionally, a text-based tutorial can be found at here for further guidance.
You're welcome to reach out to me at any time.

[xiaohang007]

If you still would like to install SLICES on mac directly. Maybe you can try this:
conda create --name slices python=3.9
conda activate slices
pip install slices

[gmrigna]

Thanks for the reply. I have actually found a workaround in the meantime replacing M3GNet with MACE...