Research Article
Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning Ensemble Methods
Table 5
F1-score on the 4 datasets.
| ā | DS1 | DS2 | DS3 | DS4 |
| Logistic regression (LR) | 0.98 | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.87 | Linear SVM (LSVM) | 0.98 | 0.32 | 0.7 | 0.87 | Multilayer perceptron | 0.98 | 0.34 | 0.95 | 0.9 | K-nearest neighbors (KNN) | 0.89 | 0.23 | 0.83 | 0.77 |
| Ensemble learners | Random forest (RF) | 0.99 | 0.32 | 0.95 | 0.91 | Voting classifier (RF, LR, KNN) | 0.97 | 0.88 | 0.94 | 0.88 | Voting classifier (LR, LSVM, CART) | 0.96 | 0.86 | 0.92 | 0.86 | Bagging classifier (decision trees) | 0.98 | 0.94 | 0.94 | 0.9 | Boosting classifier (AdaBoost) | 0.98 | 0.92 | 0.92 | 0.86 | Boosting classifier (XGBoost) | 0.99 | 0.94 | 0.95 | 0.9 |
| Benchmark algorithms | Perez-LSVM | 0.99 | 0.8 | 0.96 | 0.9 | Wang-CNN | 0.87 | 0.67 | 0.31 | 0.73 | Wang-Bi-LSTM | 0.84 | 0.44 | 0.35 | 0.57 |
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