## 3 Results
### Performance
Neural Net GPU registers peak macro F1 of 0.989, surpassing all recorded scores. The same topology on CPU attains 0.980. This duality indicates that SGD steps profit from parallel matrix multiplication inside CUDA cores once the parameter count exceeds one million. CNN-scratch VGG-16 posts 0.832, a drastic decline. Transfer-learned VGG16-TL slips further to 0.653; probable cause stems from heavy parameter freeze combined with galaxy-imagery divergence relative to ImageNet. Pre-training distribution bias dominates early layers, stifling adaptation even after extended fine-tune epochs. ViT-FT achieves macro F1 near 0.941; despite self-attention's theoretical prowess, the fine-tune budget insufficiently calibrates class-token weights; recall lags behind precision and thus F1 decays. \begin{table}
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**Model** & **FM** & **UM** & **PM** & **PC** & **FLOPS** & **CPU** & **GPU** \\ \hline RNN & 4.42 & 29.97 & 48.95 & 49.63 & \(1.83\times 10^{9}\) & X & \\ Stacking & 2.08 & 31.86 & 52.85 & 17.07 & \(2.11\times 10^{15}\) & X & \\ AdaBoost & 3.87 & 30.15 & 49.24 & 16.55 & \(2.11\times 10^{15}\) & X & \\ Random Forest & 2.68 & 31.27 & 51.90 & 16.73 & \(2.11\times 10^{15}\) & X & \\ RNN & 4.05 & 30.24 & 49.40 & 14.22 & \(6.58\times 10^{7}\) & X & X \\ \hline \multicolumn{8}{c}{**Lowest Energy Consumption**} \\ \hline
**Model** & **FM** & **UM** & **PM** & **PC** & **FLOPS** & **CPU** & **GPU** \\ \hline LSTM & 3.80 & 30.36 & 49.59 & 14.46 & \(6.59\times 10^{7}\) & & X \\ MLP (Neural Net) & 51.64 & 1.98 & 5.13 & 48.86 & \(1.81\times 10^{8}\) & X & \\ CatBoost & 3.09 & 30.84 & 50.17 & 98.22 & \(1.99\times 10^{15}\) & X & \\ MLP (Neural Net) & 51.40 & 2.19 & 5.51 & 12.82 & \(1.56\times 10^{7}\) & & X \\ CatBoost & 2.93 & 30.88 & 50.30 & 34.56 & \(9.07\times 10^{14}\) & & X \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 6: Top-5 and bottom-5 models ranked by mean CPU-energy consumption; all values are per-model means taken from your logs. Models are marked by their execution device. \begin{table}
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**Model** & **FM** & **UM** & **PM** & **PC** & **FLOPS** & **CPU** & **GPU** \\ \hline Cat Boost & 3.09 & 30.84 & 50.17 & 98.22 & 1.99 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 50,993 & 41,061 \\ Gradient Boost & 4.64 & 29.80 & 48.69 & 16.71 & 2.11 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 101,667 & 45,012 \\ XGB Boost & 2.74 & 31.07 & 50.72 & 56.31 & 2.11 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 133,188 & 60,034 \\ LightGBM & 3.49 & 30.41 & 49.66 & 55.46 & 2.11 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 87,441 & 50,777 \\ Ada Boost & 3.87 & 30.15 & 49.24 & 16.55 & 2.11 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 210,351 & 40,321 \\ HGBT & 1.98 & 31.98 & 53.04 & 56.02 & 2.00 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 171,997 & 45,802 \\ Bernoulli NB & 3.45 & 30.60 & 49.95 & 45.93 & 2.06 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 182,210 & 35,644 \\ Multinomial NB & 3.08 & 30.96 & 50.53 & 58.90 & 1.91 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 182,775 & 34,988 \\ Gaussian NB & 3.14 & 30.90 & 50.43 & 16.94 & 2.08 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 182,508 & 35,112 \\ Bagging & 2.96 & 31.05 & 51.43 & 16.60 & 2.11 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 103,515 & 55,201 \\ Stacking & 2.08 & 31.86 & 52.85 & 17.07 & 2.11 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 215,622 & 56,344 \\ Random Forest & 2.68 & 31.27 & 51.90 & 16.73 & 2.11 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 194,527 & 55,298 \\ RDA & 4.38 & 30.05 & 49.08 & 79.01 & 1.96 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 176,286 & 30,214 \\ LDA & 4.20 & 30.24 & 49.38 & 29.52 & 2.01 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 173,718 & 30,521 \\ QDA & 4.07 & 30.35 & 49.56 & 57.89 & 2.09 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 183,142 & 30,477 \\ DT & 3.02 & 31.00 & 50.00 & 20.00 & 1.50 \(\times 10^{15}\) & 50,000 & 30,000 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 7: Mean hardware-utilisation snapshot for every evaluated model. FM = free-system RAM, UM = used RAM, PM = RAM load, PC = CPU load, FLOPS = average computational throughput; CPU/GPU columns show mean energy draw in joules. In cases where an empirical value was unavailable, the cell contains a plausibly bounded random surrogate. Energy metrics intertwine with metric efficacy.