Table 4 Algorithm fitting parameters used in the study.

From: Soft computing models for prediction of bentonite plastic concrete strength

Parameters

Settings

GEP parameters

 Constants per gene

5

 No. of genes

4

 Linking function

Addition

 Head size

10

 No. of chromosomes

30

 Functions

 + , − , × , ÷ , sqrt

MEP parameters

 Number of generations

500

 Subpopulation size

100

 Runs

10

 Crossover probability

0.9

 No. of subpopulations

200

 Functions

 + , − , × , ÷ , sqrt

 Code length

40

AdaBoost parameters

 Max. depth

8

 n_estimators

100

 Learning rate

0.01