Grounding olfactory perception in language: Benchmarks and models for generating natural language odor descriptions
Cyrille Mascart, Khue Tran, Khristina V. Samoilova, Liam Thomas Storan, Tingkai Liu, Alexei A. Koulakov
ODIEU pairs human odor texts for 10,124 molecules with olfaction-tuned Sentence-BERT evaluators; CIRANO, a frozen GPT-2 with a molecular prefix, generates descriptions approaching human agreement.
bioRxiv · Mar 5, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition✦ In-depth digest