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Table 3 Performance of SVM (average r 2) on the traits of Maize data set under the traditional encoding vs. the hybrid encodings vs. the target-based encoding

From: Does encoding matter? A novel view on the quantitative genetic trait prediction problem

Data set

Traditional encoding

Hybrid one

Hybrid two

Target-based

Maize: Flint 1 TASS

0.317

0.344

0.344

0.328

Maize: Flint 2 DMC

0.278

0.29

0.29

0.27

Maize: Flint 3 DM_Yield

0.066

0.075

0.074

0.05

Maize: Dent 1 Tass

0.2

0.27

0.27

0.27

Maize: Dent 2 DMC

0.45

0.49

0.495

0.48

Maize: Dent 3 DM_Yield

0.32

0.34

0.34

0.33

  1. The bold numbers are the ones with the best performance