SMELLNET: A Large-scale Dataset for Real-world Smell Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00239v1
• Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 21:15:25 GMT
• Title: SMELLNET: A Large-scale Dataset for Real-world Smell Recognition
• Abstract summary: We use portable gas and chemical sensors to create SmellNet.<n>SmellNet is the first large-scale database that digitizes a diverse range of smells in the natural world.<n>We train AI models for real-time classification of substances based on their smell alone.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The ability of AI to sense and identify various substances based on their smell alone can have profound impacts on allergen detection (e.g., smelling gluten or peanuts in a cake), monitoring the manufacturing process, and sensing hormones that indicate emotional states, stress levels, and diseases. Despite these broad impacts, there are virtually no large scale benchmarks, and therefore little progress, for training and evaluating AI systems' ability to smell in the real world. In this paper, we use portable gas and chemical sensors to create SmellNet, the first large-scale database that digitizes a diverse range of smells in the natural world. SmellNet contains about 180,000 time steps of 50 substances (spanning nuts, spices, herbs, fruits, and vegetables) with 50 hours of data. Using SmellNet, we train AI models for real-time classification of substances based on their smell alone. Our best methods leverage sequence models, contrastive learning to integrate high-resolution Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry molecular data, and a new temporal difference method that identifies sharp changes in sensor readings. Our best models achieve up to 65.35% accuracy on pre-recorded data, and generalize to real-world conditions with 10.71% accuracy on nuts and 25.38% on spices in the challenging 50-way online classification task. Despite these promising results, SmellNet highlights many technical challenges in building AI for smell, including richer feature learning, on-edge smell models, and robustness to environmental changes.

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