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    <full_title>Fusion: Practice and Applications</full_title>
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    <issn media_type="print">2770-0070</issn>
    <issn media_type="electronic">2692-4048</issn>
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     <year>2025</year>
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     <volume>20</volume>
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     <title>Optimizing Random Forest for Handwritten Digit Recognition Through Hyper-parameter Tuning</title>
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      <given_name>Yaqeen Saad</given_name>
      <surname>Ali</surname>
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        <institution_name>Department of computer Science, College of computer Science and Information Technology, University of Anbar, Anbar, Iraq</institution_name>
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      <given_name>Rihab Hazim</given_name>
      <surname>Qasim</surname>
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        <institution_name>Department of computer Science, College of computer Science and Information Technology, University of Anbar, Anbar, Iraq</institution_name>
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      <given_name>Sura Mahroos</given_name>
      <surname>Searan</surname>
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        <institution_name>Department of computer Science, College of computer Science and Information Technology, University of Anbar, Anbar, Iraq</institution_name>
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      <given_name>Othman Mohammed</given_name>
      <surname>Jasim</surname>
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        <institution_name>Department of Computer Engineering Techniques, College of Technical Engineering, University of Al Maarif, Al Anbar, 31001, Iraq</institution_name>
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      <given_name>Ibaa Sadoon Jabbar</given_name>
      <surname>Alzubaydı</surname>
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        <institution_name>Construction and Projects Department, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq</institution_name>
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     <jats:p>The significant increase in the volume of recently released records and multimedia news that is available presents fresh issues for pattern-recognition and machine-learning, particularly in addressing the longstanding issue of recognizing handwritten digits. Handwriting-recognition is a captivating area of research due to the uniqueness of each individual's handwriting style. It involves a computer's ability that automatically identify and comprehend handwritten (digit or character). Hyper parameters play a crucial role in the performance of machine learning algorithms, directly influencing the training process and significantly affecting the resulting model's performance. This work introduce a general automated hyper parameter tuning mechanics were used to optimize the random forest parameters, which are: grid- random search and Bayesian optimization applying on MNIST digit database (images) that have already been pre-processed. These proposed methods successfully identify optimal hyper parameters across a wide variety of ML models, taking into consideration the time cost of the search. This work shows the effectiveness and efficiency of used techniques, crucial for real-world applications. The results of this study show an accuracy rate of 99.3% for the Grid Search model, 98.8% for the Random Search model, and 96.0% for Bayesian Optimization on random forest algorithm.</jats:p>
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     <year>2025</year>
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     <first_page>155</first_page>
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