Table 2 Tested options selected for the optimization of the developed ML.

From: Leveraging machine learning for prediction and optimization of texture properties of sustainable activated carbon derived from waste materials

Method

Hyper-parameter

Available options

Optimum option

RF

Maximum features

[“auto”, “sqrt”, “log2”]

sqrt

Maximum depth

[3, 4, 5, …, 30]

25

N of estimators

[3, 4, 5, …, 150]

125

GBR

learning rate

0.1–0.9

0.21

estimators

3-150

50

subsample

0.1–0.9

0.5

DT

adept

2–20

9

max_features

[“auto”, “sqrt”, “log2”]

sqrt

ANN

Number of nets

1–5

4

Number of Neurons

5-128

64

net

Sequential,…

Sequential

Activation Function

‘relu’, ‘tanh’

‘relu’, ‘tanh’

SVM

kernel

‘rbf’, ‘poly’, ‘sigmoid’

rbf

C

0.1-10000

5000

gamma

‘scale’, ‘auto’

scale