and brought predictive performance up to (and in some cases beyond) SOTA models applied in biochemistry outside of olfaction. Fantastic work by PhD student Grant McConachie, in collaboration with @megyounger.bsky.social If you’re curious, DM for code, soon to be made public!

and multimodal cross attention, yielding chemical features that improve prediction on classic olfactory datasets. We were surprised that many chemical foundation models don’t improve performance (despite success in other domains) but LoRA created chemical featurizations specialized for olfaction,

I friend pointed out that Penderecki isn’t alone because you can see a leg on the bottom right of the picture.