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However, record-wise validation may overestimate generalization when measurements for the same compound occur in both the training and test sets.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A leakage-aware machine-learning workflow was evaluated using molecular weight, melting point, temperature, and pressure as predictors of drug solubility in SC-CO\n                      <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                      . Experimental records compiled from published measurements were screened using Isolation Forest and scaled by min-max normalization. Kernel ridge regression (KRR), histogram-based gradient boosting (HGB), and neural additive models (NAMs), together with linear regression and multilayer perceptron baselines, were evaluated using a 90\/10 record-wise split and leave-one-compound-out (LOCO) validation. Hyperparameters were tuned using Hyperband.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>HGB provided the strongest overall performance. Under the random record-wise test split, it achieved R\u00b2\u2009=\u20090.99372, RMSE\u2009=\u20090.247192 g\/L, and MAE\u2009=\u20090.113038 g\/L. Under the more stringent LOCO evaluation, its performance decreased to R\u00b2\u2009=\u20090.93128, RMSE\u2009=\u20090.498217 g\/L, and MAE\u2009=\u20090.271894 g\/L. The difference between the two validation schemes demonstrates that random splitting yields an optimistic estimate when compound-specific observations are shared across subsets.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>HGB accurately correlated solubility within the investigated data distribution and retained useful predictive ability for compounds excluded from model training. 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