Robust ensemble learning for classification and accurate prediction of pore-limiting diameter in metal–organic frameworks
摘要
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are tunable porous materials that have been widely studied for gas adsorption, separation, and catalysis. Predicting and classifying the pore-limiting diameter (PLD) are valuable for rational MOF screening and design. Here, we develop an ensemble machine-learning pipeline: Random Forest (RF), XGBoost (XGB), and Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LGBM) to classify pore classes and regress PLD using a curated dataset derived from the Cambridge Structural Database. To address class imbalance across pore classes, we evaluate TomekLinks, Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE), and SMOTETomek. Among the resampling strategies, RF provided the strongest overall performance, and the RF+TomekLinks configuration delivered the best balance between classification and regression. On the held-out test set, the best model achieved