Media Elektrik
Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025): MEDIA ELEKTRIK

Comparative Analysis of the EKI-SM and BSTC Models in Detecting Fake Reviews

Lalu Darmawan Bakti (Universitas Teknologi Mataram, Indonesia)
Zulpan Hadi (Universitas Teknologi Mataram, Indonesia)
Bahtiar Imran (Universitas Teknologi Mataram, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Dec 2025

Abstract

Detecting fake reviews is essential for maintaining the credibility of e-commerce platforms and protecting consumers from misleading information. However, this study specifically contributes by providing a comparative analysis of the EKI-SM and BSTC models, highlighting the efficiency and learning stability advantages of the EKI-SM in fake review detection tasks. Using a dataset of 40,000 Amazon product reviews, we conducted experiments to evaluate both models based on accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and AUC score. The results show that EKI-SM achieves an accuracy of 94.98%, recall of 91.82%, and F1-score of 94.85%, slightly outperforming the BSTC, which achieves an accuracy of 94.60 %. Although the BSTC showed marginally higher precision, the difference was not significant. Beyond performance metrics, this study emphasizes the conceptual contribution of EKI-SM, which provides a better balance between precision and recall, as well as faster convergence and lower training loss. Both models achieved high AUC scores (99.41% for BSTC and 99.42% for EKI-SM), confirming their strong capability to distinguish between genuine and fake reviews. These findings indicate that EKI-SM is not only competitive in classification performance but also more efficient and stable during training, making it a more reliable approach for fake review detection

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mediaelektrik

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Computer Science & IT Control & Systems Engineering Engineering

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Publications in the areas of Electrical Engineering, Information and Computer Engineering, and Control include research articles and reviews of the ...