Abstract This study predicted the daily evapotranspiration of eggplant ( Solanum melongena L.) under full and deficit irrigation in Bafra district Samsun province, Turkey, using machine learning methods. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), deep (DNN), M5 model tree (M5Tree), random forest (RF), support vector (SVM), k -nearest neighbor (kNN), adaptive boosting were investigated as approaches. De...