README.md

Introduction

Baler is a tool used to test the feasibility of compressing different types of scientific data using machine learning-based autoencoders. Baler provides you with an easy way to:

1. Train a machine learning model on your data
2. Compress your data with that model. This will also save the compressed file and model
3. Decompress the file using the model at a later time
4. Plot the performance of the compression/decompression

If you wish to contribute, please see the contributio guidelines here

Getting Started

In the links below we offer instructions on how to set up Baler and working tutorial examples to get you started. We offer two ways to run baler:

• Python
• Docker/Singularity/Apptainer