Prediction of Earthquake Death Toll Based on Principal Component Analysis, Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm, and Extreme Gradient Boosting by Chenhui Wang, Xiaotao Zhang, Xiaoshan Wang, Guoping Chang

“…Accurate prediction of earthquake fatalities is of great importance for pre-disaster prevention and mitigation planning, as well as post-disaster emergency response deployment. To address the challenges of small sample sizes, high dimensionality, and strong nonlinearity in earthquake fatality prediction, this paper proposes an integrated modeling approach (PCA-IWOA-XGBoost) combining Principal Component Analysis (PCA), the Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm (IWOA), and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost). …”
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Optimizing concrete strength: How nanomaterials and AI redefine mix design by Dan Huang, Guangshuai Han, Ziyang Tang

“…XGB was identified as the most effective ML algorithm for predicting compressive strength among others in this study (R2=0.974). …”
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