Table 4 Sensitivity analysis of the MLP network with different numbers of hidden Neurons.

From: Performance investigation of Xanthan gum polymer flooding for enhanced oil recovery using machine learning models

Number of Hidden Neurons

Data type

\(\:{\varvec{R}}^{2}\)

MSE

RMSE

3

Training

Validation

All Data

0.8858

0.9136

0.8914

28.5866

24.5253

27.7708

5.1537

4.8440

5.0909

6

Training

Validation

All Data

0.9811

0.9930

0.9835

3.9435

1.8391

3.5208

1.8443

1.2987

1.7347

10

Training

Validation

All Data

0.9753

0.9909

0.9785

2.2282

1.5215

2.0863

5.9888

2.4221

5.2724

13

Training

Validation

All Data

0.9471

0.9869

0.9551

12.2845

3.69886

10.5600

3.2615

1.8837

2.9848

15

Training

Validation

All Data

0.9667

0.9842

0.9545

7.8836

4.4829

7.2006

2.5215

2.0350

2.4238

17

Training

Validation

All Data

0.9393

0.9630

0.9441

15.5370

10.4300

14.5112

3.5495

3.1040

3.4600

  1. Values in bold indicate the optimal model performance.