Table 4 Comparative performance of machine learning algorithms for predicting nepetalactone concentration (n = 62 samples; 10-fold cross-validation).
Algorithm | RMSE | MAE | R2 | CCC | CI95% (RMSE) | RF vs. ΔRMSE (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RF-SVM-GBM Hybrid | 0.015 | 0.012 | 0.82 | 0.88 | 0.012–0.018 | −21.1% (Improvement) |
RF | 0.019 | 0.015 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.016–0.022 | Reference |
SVM | 0.021 | 0.017 | 0.68 | 0.76 | 0.018–0.024 | + 10.5% |
GBM | 0.028 | 0.023 | 0.54 | 0.63 | 0.024–0.032 | + 47.4% |