Table 7 Total ranking of the best-fitted model for the four employed hybrid methods.

From: Predicting the mechanical behavior of municipal solid waste layers in the Barmshour Landfill stability analysis

used Method

Population size

Network result

Score

Total score

Rank

Train

Test

Train

Test

RMSE

R2

RMSE

R2

RMSE

R2

RMSE

R2

BBO-MLP

450

78.722

0.8964

90.604

0.895

3

3

3

3

12

2

MVO-MLP

350

77.601

0.8995

89.449

0.898

4

4

4

4

16

1

VS-MLP

150

79.989

0.8929

93.447

0.888

2

2

1

1

6

3

BSA-MLP

500

83.687

0.882

91.12

0.894

1

1

2

2

6

3