Table 2 Summary of existing research studies employing ML models for clickbait detection.

From: Clickbait detection in news headlines using RoBERTa-Large language model and deep embeddings

Ref

Models

Dataset

Features

Results

Limitation

11

RF

Clickbait Challenge 2017

Text features

82

Relies only on top sixty features; lacks contextual semantic representation.

12

AdaBoost

Clickbait news

Text features

91

Focused on feature engineering; limited generalization beyond dataset.

13

SVM

online news outlets

Text features

97

Compared multiple algorithms but lacked interpretability and semantic analysis.

14

LR

BollyBAIT

Word embeddings

95

Achieved accuracy with minimal features; limited exploration of deep models.

15

NB

Clickbait headlines

non-word features

89

Focused only on Arabic dataset; domain-specific and lacks cross-lingual evaluation.

16

RF

Arabic news

FV-ANOVA

92

Lower accuracy with traditional ML models; limited contextual representation.

17

DT

Indonesia news

Text features

71

Expanded dataset but relied on conventional ANN/LSTM; limited interpretability.

18

RF

Turkish clickbait

Word2vec

97

Compared to NB and LSTM, it lacks robust dataset diversity.

19

NB

Clickbait news

Text feature

96

Limited exploration of deep models.