AllMetrics: A Unified Python Library for Standardized Metric Evaluation in Machine Learning
Machine learning (ML) models rely heavily on consistent and accurate performance metrics to evaluate and compare their effectiveness. However, existing libraries often suffer from fragmentation, inconsistent implementations, and insufficient data validation protocols, leading to unreliable results. Existing libraries have often been developed independently and without adherence to a unified standard, particularly concerning the specific tasks they aim to support. As a result, each library tends to adopt its conventions for metric computation, input/output formatting, error handling, and data validation protocols. This lack of standardization leads to inconsistencies in both implementation and reporting, making it difficult to compare results across frameworks or ensure reliable evaluations. To address these issues, we introduce AllMetrics, a unified Python library designed to standardize metric evaluation across diverse ML tasks, including regression, classification, clustering, segmentation, and image-to-image translation. The library implements class-specific reporting for multi-class tasks through configurable parameters (e.g., average='macro'/'micro'/'none') to cover all use cases, while incorporating task-specific parameters (e.g., window_size in structural similarity index measure (SSIM)) to resolve metric computation discrepancies across implementations. Various datasets from domains like healthcare, finance, and real estate were applied to our library and compared with components in Python, Matlab, and R to identify which yield similar results. AllMetrics combines a modular Application Programming Interface (API) with robust input validation mechanisms to ensure reproducibility and reliability in model evaluation. This paper presents its design principles, architectural components, and empirical analysis demonstrating the ability to mitigate evaluation errors and enhance the trustworthiness of ML workflows.
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- Alizadeh, M., M. Oveisi, S. Falahati, G. Mousavi, M. A. Meybodi, S. S. Mehrnia, I. Hacihaliloglu, A. Rahmim, and M. R. Salmanpour. "AllMetrics: A Unified Python Library for Standardized Metric Evaluation in Machine Learning." In 2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (RTSD), pp. 1-2. IEEE, 2025.