Table 1 Summary of machine learning applications for predicting MSWG.

From: Advanced predictive modeling of municipal solid waste management using robust machine learning

Author(s)

Year

ML technique(s)

Result

Best ML

method

Alidoust et al.

2021

ANN, MARS, MGGP, M5Tree

ANN achieved highest accuracy,

R2 = 0.9812 (testing)

ANN

Xia et al.

2022

Support Vector Machine (SVM)

High accuracy with R2 = 0.98;

outperformed traditional methods

SVM

Ali et al.

2021

Linear Regression (LR),

Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), SMO

MLP achieved highest

correlation coefficient 0.7169

MLP

Adeleke et al.

2023

ANFIS optimized with

PSO and GA

PSO-ANFIS-FCM best model;

RMSE = 2.864 predicting organic waste

PSO-ANFIS

-FCM

Singh and Uppaluri

2023

Decision Tree (DT), Random

Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting (GB)

GB best with RMSE = 3.01,

MAE = 2.86, R2 = 0.99

Gradient

Boosting (GB)

Nourani et al.

2025

FFNN, LSTM with MI and

SHAP feature selection

FFNN performed well in Austin

(DC = 0.7226 train, 0.6529 test);

less accurate elsewhere

FFNN with

MI-SHA