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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Interpretable Machine Learning for Predicting Splitting Strength of Asphalt Concrete: Insights from SHAP Analysis.

Jianglei Xing, Xiao Tan, Yihao Li, Dongzhao Jin, Pengwei Guo, Yuhuan Wang, Huiya Niu

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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7 authors.

Jianglei XingCollege of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China.ORCID 0009-0005-4591-066X
Xiao TanCollege of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3552-6163
Yihao LiCollege of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China.
Dongzhao JinDepartment of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0153-5501
Pengwei GuoFaculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands.
Yuhuan WangDepartment of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
Huiya NiuShanghai Research Institute of Building Science Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201108, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper proposes an interpretable machine learning approach for predicting the splitting strength of asphalt concrete and supporting data-driven mixture design. A database consisting of 296 samples was constructed, and 14 input variables related to asphalt properties, aggregate gradation, and fiber characteristics were selected for modeling. Eight machine learning models, namely TabPFN, ANN, SVR, RF, XGBoost, LightGBM, FLAML, and FT-Transformer, were developed and compared. The results show that all eight models achieved satisfactory predictive capability, whereas TabPFN overall achieved the best performance in the Monte Carlo cross-validation, with the lowest average RMSE of 0.34 ± 0.10, the lowest average MAE of 0.21 ± 0.02, a relatively low average MAD of 0.14 ± 0.03, the highest average R

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asphalt concreteexplainable artificial intelligenceSHAP interpretationsplitting strengthTabPFN

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