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molecular foundation model
olfactory prediction
transfer learning
machine olfaction
A General-Purpose Molecular Foundation Model Transfers Across Diverse Olfactory Tasks
🤖 AI Summary
研究通过微调Uni-Mol2模型在GS-LF基准上进行气味描述符预测，并评估其在多种嗅觉任务中的表现，证明了该模型能够跨不同任务有效转移学习。
📝 Abstract
Foundation models have transformed molecular property prediction, yet it remains unclear whether a molecular foundation model, fine-tuned on a single canonical olfactory prediction task, can learn representations that transfer across diverse machine olfaction problems. We investigate this question by fine-tuning Uni-Mol2 on the GS-LF benchmark for multi-label odor descriptor prediction and evaluating the resulting model, without additional deep-learning training, on four complementary downstream settings: cross-dataset odor descriptor prediction, odorous-versus-odorless classification, enantiomer evaluation, and odor mixture discriminability. The fine-tuned model matches or exceeds the performance of the state-of-the-art olfaction-specific baseline on the primary GS-LF benchmark and consistently transfers across these downstream evaluations. The enantiomer analysis further shows that three-dimensional molecular representations distinguish mirror-image molecules in a way that two-dimensional graph models fundamentally cannot, although accurately predicting the perceptual consequences of stereochemistry remains an open challenge. Together, these results support a train-once, transfer-across-tasks paradigm for machine olfaction and suggest that chemically pretrained molecular representations provide a strong foundation for transferable olfactory prediction.
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molecular foundation model
machine olfaction
transfer learning
enantiomer evaluation
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