Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning Ensemble Methods

Table 5

F1-score on the 4 datasets.

	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