Table 1 Computational resources, frameworks, and training configuration.

From: Towards improved fake news detection using a hybrid RoBERTa and metadata enhanced XGBoost model

Component

Details

Computing hardware

Intel Core i9-12900K (16C/24T), NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24GB VRAM), 64GB DDR5 RAM

Operating system

Windows 11 Pro

Deep learning frameworks

PyTorch 2.0, TensorFlow 2.10, Keras 2.11

GPU acceleration

CUDA 12.1, cuDNN 8.9

Datasets used

PolitiFact, GossipCop

Preprocessing

BERT-based Tokenization, stopword removal, lemmatization

Model architecture

Transformer-based Embeddings + TF-IDF Features + XGBoost Classifier

Training duration

100 Epochs, Batch Size = 16

Learning rate adjustment

ReduceLROnPlateau (Triggers after 3 epochs of no improvement)

Regularization techniques

Early stopping (patience: 10 epochs), gradient clipping

Evaluation metrics

Accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score