Ensemble Boosting Methods for Surface Water Quality Modeling: A Review
摘要
This review examines the application of boosting algorithms in surface water quality modeling across five domains: (1) rivers and streamflow, (2) agricultural applications and irrigation, (3) coastal waters, (4) reservoirs and lakes, and (5) wastewater. Of the 592 explored studies throughout this review from January 1, 2010, to September 1, 2025, 156 studies were scrutinized and analyzed after screening, exclusion, and retrieval. By the aid of a systematic PRISMA-guided search of Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, the applications of several commonly used and recent boosting algorithms like AdaBoost, CatBoost, LightGBM, SGBoost, gradient boosting, XGBoost, and NGBoost were examined for predicting physical, chemical, heavy metal, and biological water quality parameters. The primary outcome of this review demonstrates that XGBoost is the prominent, widely used, and most accurate algorithm, outperforming in 58% of comparative studies due to its scalability and regularization.
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