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To improve our understanding of the biomechanical mechanisms that drive metabolic rate outcomes, we used a machine learning approach to model the relationship between multimodal biomechanical factors and the metabolic rate of walking with a powered ankle-foot prosthesis. Our model included 50 features describing spatiotemporal parameters, step-to-step transition work, joint kinematics, muscle activity, ground reaction forces, prosthesis settings, and subject characteristics, and resulted in a pseudo-R\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    of 0.986. Accumulated local effects plots were used to visualize the direction and magnitude of the relationship between each feature and the metabolic rate of walking. The features with the largest effect on metabolic rate were peak unaffected side ankle inversion angle, leading affected leg positive work during the step-to-step transition, and peak affected knee extension angle. 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