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  <full_title>Fusion: Practice and Applications</full_title>
  <abbrev_title>FPA</abbrev_title>
  <issn media_type="print">2692-4048</issn>
  <issn media_type="electronic">2770-0070</issn>
  <doi_data>
   <doi>10.54216/FPA</doi>
   <resource>https://www.americaspg.com/journals/show/3840</resource>
  </doi_data>
 </journal_metadata>
 <journal_issue>
  <publication_date media_type="print">
   <year>2018</year>
  </publication_date>
  <publication_date media_type="online">
   <year>2018</year>
  </publication_date>
 </journal_issue>
 <journal_article publication_type="full_text">
  <titles>
   <title>Optimizing Random Forest for Handwritten Digit Recognition Through Hyper-parameter Tuning</title>
  </titles>
  <contributors>
   <organization sequence="first" contributor_role="author">Department of computer Science, College of computer Science and Information Technology , University of Anbar, Anbar, Iraq</organization>
   <person_name sequence="first" contributor_role="author">
    <given_name>Othman</given_name>
    <surname>Othman</surname>
   </person_name>
   <organization sequence="first" contributor_role="author">Department of computer Science, College of computer Science and Information Technology , University of Anbar, Anbar, Iraq</organization>
   <person_name sequence="additional" contributor_role="author">
    <given_name>Rihab Hazim</given_name>
    <surname>Qasim</surname>
   </person_name>
   <organization sequence="first" contributor_role="author">Department of computer Science, College of computer Science and Information Technology , University of Anbar, Anbar, Iraq</organization>
   <person_name sequence="additional" contributor_role="author">
    <given_name>Sura Mahroos</given_name>
    <surname>Searan</surname>
   </person_name>
   <organization sequence="first" contributor_role="author">Department of Computer Engineering Techniques, College of Technical Engineering, University of Al Maarif, Al Anbar, 31001, Iraq</organization>
   <person_name sequence="additional" contributor_role="author">
    <given_name>Othman Mohammed</given_name>
    <surname>Jasim</surname>
   </person_name>
   <organization sequence="first" contributor_role="author">Construction and Projects Department, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq</organization>
   <person_name sequence="additional" contributor_role="author">
    <given_name>Ibaa Sadoon Jabbarı</given_name>
    <surname>Alzubaydı</surname>
   </person_name>
  </contributors>
  <jats:abstract xml:lang="en">
   <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>
  </jats:abstract>
  <publication_date media_type="print">
   <year>2025</year>
  </publication_date>
  <publication_date media_type="online">
   <year>2025</year>
  </publication_date>
  <pages>
   <first_page>155</first_page>
   <last_page>165</last_page>
  </pages>
  <doi_data>
   <doi>10.54216/FPA.200112</doi>
   <resource>https://www.americaspg.com/articleinfo/3/show/3840</resource>
  </doi_data>
 </journal_article>
</journal>
