A Comparative Study of Attention-Based Transformer Networks and Traditional Machine Learning Methods for Toxic Comments Classification

Table 1.

Metrics Performance of Attention-Based Transformer andTraditional Machine Learning Methods

Model Accuracy Precision Recall F1-Score

Logistic Regression 85.25% 82.19% 88.34% 85.15%
Naive Bayes 78.42% 75.61% 82.39% 78.05%
Support Vector Machines (SVM) 87.62% 84.28% 89.46% 86.14%
Decision Trees 80.92% 78.12% 85.92% 80.89%
Random Forests 86.79% 83.47% 88.61% 85.23%
Gradient Boosting 88.45% 85.92% 90.11% 87.38%
Attention-Based Transformer 92.14% 89.28% 94.13% 91.12%
Transformer 90.68% 87.83% 92.04% 89.19%