arXiv AI By Kai Lun Huang (California State University, Fullerton), Wei Chieh Sun (University of Washington)

Beyond Predictive Accuracy: A Reliability-Aware Audit of Molecular Representations for Human Olfaction

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arXiv:2607. 24848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained molecular encoders are commonly evaluated through downstream prediction, but predictive accuracy alone does not establish that a learned representation captures reproducible scientific structure, adds information beyond strong conventional baselines, or transfers out of distribution.

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