Predicting Compressive Strength of High-Performance Concrete Using Hybridization of Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic and Gradient Boosting Machine

Nhat-Duc Hoang, Tran Van-Duc and Xuan-Linh Tran ()
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Nhat-Duc Hoang: Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam
Tran Van-Duc: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam
Xuan-Linh Tran: Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam

Mathematics, 2024, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-24

Abstract: This study proposes a novel integration of the Extreme Gradient Boosting Machine (XGBoost) and Differential Flower Pollination (DFP) for constructing an intelligent method to predict the compressive strength (CS) of high-performance concrete (HPC) mixes. The former is employed to generalize a mapping function between the mechanical property of concrete and its influencing factors. DFP, as a metaheuristic algorithm, is employed to optimize the learning phase of XGBoost and reach a fine balance between the two goals of model building: reducing the prediction error and maximizing the generalization capability. To construct the proposed method, a historical dataset consisting of 400 samples was collected from previous studies. The model’s performance is reliably assessed via multiple experiments and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. The hybrid DFP-XGBoost is able to achieve good predictive outcomes with a root mean square error of 5.27, a mean absolute percentage error of 6.74%, and a coefficient of determination of 0.94. Additionally, quantile regression based on XGBoost is performed to construct interval predictions of the CS of HPC. Notably, an asymmetric error loss is used to diminish overestimations committed by the model. It was found that this loss function successfully reduced the percentage of overestimated CS values from 47.1% to 27.5%. Hence, DFP-XGBoost can be a promising approach for accurately and reliably estimating the CS of untested HPC mixes.

Keywords: high-performance concrete; compressive strength; gradient boosting machine; differential flower pollination; overestimation reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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