Feasibility of stochastic gradient boosting approach for predicting rockburst damage in burst-prone mines

The database of 254 rockburst events was examined for rockburst damage classification using stochastic gradient boosting （SGB） methods. Five potentially relevant indicators including the stress condition factor, the ground support system capacity, the excavation span, the geological structure and the peak particle velocity of rockburst sites were analyzed. The performance of the model was evaluated using a 10 folds cross-validation （CV） procedure with 80%of original data during modeling, and an external testing set （20%） was employed to validate the prediction performance of the SGB model. Two accuracy measures for multi-class problems were employed： classification accuracy rate and Cohen’s Kappa. The accuracy analysis together with Kappa for the rockburst damage dataset reveals that the SGB model for the prediction of rockburst damage is acceptable.

Prediction of COVID-19 Confirmed Cases Using Gradient Boosting Regression Method

The fast spread of coronavirus disease(COVID-19)caused by SARSCoV-2 has become a pandemic and a serious threat to the world.As of May 30,2020,this disease had infected more than 6 million people globally,with hundreds of thousands of deaths.Therefore,there is an urgent need to predict confirmed cases so as to analyze the impact of COVID-19 and practice readiness in healthcare systems.This study uses gradient boosting regression(GBR)to build a trained model to predict the daily total confirmed cases of COVID-19.The GBR method can minimize the loss function of the training process and create a single strong learner from weak learners.Experiments are conducted on a dataset of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases from January 22,2020,to May 30,2020.The results are evaluated on a set of evaluation performance measures using 10-fold cross-validation to demonstrate the effectiveness of the GBR method.The results reveal that the GBR model achieves 0.00686 root mean square error,the lowest among several comparative models.

Predictive-Analysis-based Machine Learning Model for Fraud Detection with Boosting Classifiers

Fraud detection for credit/debit card,loan defaulters and similar types is achievable with the assistance of Machine Learning(ML)algorithms as they are well capable of learning from previous fraud trends or historical data and spot them in current or future transactions.Fraudulent cases are scant in the comparison of non-fraudulent observations,almost in all the datasets.In such cases detecting fraudulent transaction are quite difficult.The most effective way to prevent loan default is to identify non-performing loans as soon as possible.Machine learning algorithms are coming into sight as adept at handling such data with enough computing influence.In this paper,the rendering of different machine learning algorithms such as Decision Tree,Random Forest,linear regression,and Gradient Boosting method are compared for detection and prediction of fraud cases using loan fraudulent manifestations.Further model accuracy metric have been performed with confusion matrix and calculation of accuracy,precision,recall and F-1 score along with Receiver Operating Characteristic(ROC)curves.