Spam Mail Detection Using Optimization Techniques

Abstract

On account of the widespread availability of internet access, email correspondence is one among the most well-known cost-effective and convenient method for users in the office and in business. Many people abuse this convenient mode of communication by spamming others with conciseness bulk emails. They use emails to collect personal information of the users to benefit financially. A literature review is conducted to investigate the most effective strategies for achieving successful outcomes while working with various spam mail datasets. K-Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machine, Naive Bayes, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Logistic Regression are all employed in the implementation of machine learning techniques. To make classifiers more efficient, bio-inspired algorithms such as BAT and PSO are used. The accuracy of every classification algorithm along with and without optimization is observed. Factors such as accuracy, f1-score, precision, and recall are used to compare the results. This work is implemented in Python along with GUI interface Tkinter.