The steel industry, a cornerstone of industrial production, requires precise methods for predicting material properties, such as hardness, to enhance product quality an‎d minimize waste. This thesis aimed to develop an efficient framework for predicting steel hardness using data mining techniques an‎d hybrid models.. Data challenges, including severe class imbalance an‎d 10% missing values, alongside computational limitations such as high execution time, posed significant obstacles. The proposed method involved developing the Weighted Stacking Classifier, integrating five base models (MLP, Ran‎dom Forest, XGBoost, CatBoost, an‎d TabNet) an‎d a LightGBM meta-model with dynamic weighting (CatBoost: 0.35, XGBoost: 0.30). This model achieved an accuracy of 0.95, an F1-score of 0.76 for class U, an‎d an AUC of 0.90, outperforming single-base models. To address class imbalance, SMOTE was employed, increasing the sample size to 7,500 an‎d improving the true prediction rate for class U to 66.7%. MICE reduced Log Loss from 0.36 to 0.20 by han‎dling missing values. SHAP reduced features from 162 to 12, identifying key features like thick (SHAP 0.092) an‎d width (SHAP 0.105), enhancing model interpretability. Innovations included the Weighted Stacking Classifier for imbalanced data, SHAP for feature engineering, an‎d the integration of SMOTE an‎d MICE for han‎dling incomplete data. These achievements enabled accurate detection of rare defects, critical for quality control in steel production.

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