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Table 2.

Comparison of two feature sets: all 83 features and a limited set of 47 features excluding magnitude ratios, reported on the random (r < 21.3) and faint extrapolation (r ∈ (21.3, 22)) tests.

Classification
Redshift for true QSOs
Redshift for QSO candidates
Test Model Features Accuracy Purity Recall MSE R2 δz MSE R2 δz
Random RF All features 99.01% 97.39% 94.43% 0.12 85% 0.02 ± 0.14 0.12 84% 0.03 ± 0.21
No ratios 98.98% 97.20% 94.57% 0.11 86% 0.02 ± 0.14 0.14 82% 0.04 ± 0.25
XGB All features 99.09% 97.80% 95.82% 0.13 84% 0.02 ± 0.15 0.13 83% 0.03 ± 0.21
No ratios 99.07% 97.80% 94.66% 0.12 84% 0.01 ± 0.15 0.12 83% 0.03 ± 0.20
ANN( * ) All features( * ) 98.98% 96.90% 94.72% 0.09 88% 0.01 ± 0.12 0.11 85% 0.02 ± 0.23
No ratios 98.99% 97.58% 94.30% 0.09 88% 0.01 ± 0.12 0.11 86% 0.02 ± 0.21

Faint RF All features 97.41% 96.07% 92.30% 0.31 31% 0.02 ± 0.25 0.33 31% 0.05 ± 0.38
extrap. No ratios 97.39% 96.12% 92.22% 0.29 35% 0.01 ± 0.24 0.31 35% 0.04 ± 0.38
XGB All features 97.41% 96.44% 92.07% 0.27 39% 0.04 ± 0.23 0.34 29% 0.08 ± 0.41
No ratios 97.45% 96.55% 91.94% 0.27 39% 0.04 ± 0.22 0.33 29% 0.08 ± 0.40
ANN( * ) All features( * ) 97.24% 96.54% 90.82% 0.22 51% 0.00 ± 0.19 0.28 38% 0.04 ± 0.37
No ratios 97.26% 96.94% 90.88% 0.24 46% 0.00 ± 0.20 0.30 32% 0.03 ± 0.38

Notes. The redshifts were tested in two subsets of QSOs: true spectroscopic ones and photometric candidates. The candidates include misclassified sources, e.g., a true star assigned a QSO class and redshift. We mark with bold font the best results, independently for random and faint extrapolation tests. The asterisk (*) marks the approach used to create the final catalog. Recall is the same as completeness, and MSE, R2, and δz are given by Eqs. (1)–(3), respectively.

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