Astrophage: Building a Two-Stage Random Forest Exoplanet Classifier in Rust
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A weeks ago my teammate and I decided to enter the AI for Astronomy Hackathon 2026. The task was to classify thousands of Kepler Objects of Interest as confirmed exoplanets, candidates or false positives. Most teams would use Python and scikit-learn. We did something. We built Astrophage, a custom Two-Stage Random Forest classifier written entirely in Rust. It uses Polars for data handling and a from-scratch machine learning implementation. Astrophage achieves 94.81% accuracy making it the…
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- A weeks ago my teammate and I decided to enter the AI for Astronomy Hackathon 2026.
- The task was to classify thousands of Kepler Objects of Interest as confirmed exoplanets, candidates or false positives.
- Most teams would use Python and scikit-learn.
- We built Astrophage, a custom Two-Stage Random Forest classifier written entirely in Rust.
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