Table 1 Mean absolute error (MAE) values, as well as the standard error of the mean (σM; shown in brackets), obtained using the different ML algorithms following prediction of fractional drug release during nested cross-validation (i.e., n = 10 trials)

From: Machine learning models to accelerate the design of polymeric long-acting injectables

 

LGBM

RF

NGB

XGB

DT

NN

k-NN

SVR

lasso

PLS

MLR

The inner loop (validation)

0.125 (0.039)

0.130 (0.041)

0.128 (0.040)

0.133 (0.042)

0.154 (0.049)

0.166 (0.053)

0.179 (0.057)

0.206 (0.065)

0.242 (0.076)

0.246 (0.078)

0.244 (0.081)

Outer loop (test)

0.114 (0.036)

0.119 (0.038)

0.122 (0.039)

0.126 (0.040)

0.154 (0.049)

0.184 (0.058)

0.176 (0.056)

0.248 (0.079)

0.255 (0.081)

0.252 (0.080)

0.255 (0.081)