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Interpretable Machine Learning for Quantum-Informed Property Predictions in Artificial Sensing Materials
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This study addresses a critical limitation in digital olfaction—the lack of effective predictive methods linking molecular building blocks to sensing performance for complex human body odor volatiles (BOVs). To overcome this, the authors propose the MORE-ML framework, which integrates quantum mechanical calculations with machine learning to predict electronic binding characteristics between BOV molecules and mucin receptors, leveraging an expanded MORE-QX dataset and molecular electronic descriptors. The work reveals, for the first time, a weak correlation between the quantum properties of molecular building blocks and their binding features. Building on this insight, the authors develop an interpretable and transferable CatBoost model that outperforms existing approaches in both prediction accuracy and generalization capability, thereby offering mechanistic understanding and design principles for the rational development of artificial olfactory materials.
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📝 Abstract
Digital sensing faces challenges in developing sustainable methods to extend the applicability of customized e-noses to complex body odor volatilome (BOV). To address this challenge, we developed MORE-ML, a computational framework that integrates quantum-mechanical (QM) property data of e-nose molecular building blocks with machine learning (ML) methods to predict sensing-relevant properties. Within this framework, we expanded our previous dataset, MORE-Q, to MORE-QX by sampling a larger conformational space of interactions between BOV molecules and mucin-derived receptors. This dataset provides extensive electronic binding features (BFs) computed upon BOV adsorption. Analysis of MORE-QX property space revealed weak correlations between QM properties of building blocks and resulting BFs. Leveraging this observation, we defined electronic descriptors of building blocks as inputs for tree-based ML models to predict BFs. Benchmarking showed CatBoost models outperform alternatives, especially in transferability to unseen compounds. Explainable AI methods further highlighted which QM properties most influence BF predictions. Collectively, MORE-ML combines QM insights with ML to provide mechanistic understanding and rational design principles for molecular receptors in BOV sensing. This approach establishes a foundation for advancing artificial sensing materials capable of analyzing complex odor mixtures, bridging the gap between molecular-level computations and practical e-nose applications.
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Interpretable Machine Learning
Quantum-Informed Property Prediction
Artificial Sensing Materials
Body Odor Volatilome
Electronic Nose
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Interpretable Machine Learning
Quantum-Mechanical Descriptors
Electronic Binding Features
CatBoost
Artificial Olfaction
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