A Comprehensive Analysis of Proportional Caputo-Hybrid Fractional Inequalities and Numerical Verification via Artificial Neural Networks
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Primary Outcomes
2.1. An Auxiliary Parametrized Identity
2.2. Parametrized Inequality via -Convexity
- Midpoint-type inequality ():
- Simpson-type inequality ():where
- Bullen-type inequality ():where
- Trapezoid-type inequality ():where
- , we obtain the following midpoint-type inequality for functions whose second-order derivatives in absolute value are -convex
- , we obtain the following Bullen-type inequality for functions whose second-order derivatives in absolute value are -convexwhere
- , we obtain the following Simpson-type inequality for functions whose second-order derivatives in absolute value are -convexwhere
- , we obtain the following trapezium-type inequality for functions whose second-order derivatives in absolute value are -convexwhere
- , we obtain the following midpoint-type inequality for functions whose second-order derivatives in absolute value are convex
- , we obtain the following Bullen-type inequality for functions whose second-order derivatives in absolute value are convex
- , we obtain the following Simpson-type inequality for functions whose second-order derivatives in absolute value are convex
- , we obtain the following trapezium-type inequality for functions whose second-order derivatives in absolute value are convex
2.3. Numerical Verification and Graphical Representations
3. Further Parametrized Estimates
4. Computational Approximation and Sensitivity Analysis via Artificial Neural Networks
4.1. Dataset Generation and Methodology
- The fractional order .
- The proportional parameter .
- The convexity parameter .
- The Hölder parameter and its conjugate .
- 1.
- The Lower Bound (): Defined as the negative of the theoretical right-hand side (RHS) bound derived in Theorem 2.
- 2.
- The Operator Error (E): The simulated integral operator error (left-hand side).
- 3.
- The Upper Bound (): The positive theoretical error bound (+RHS).
4.2. Network Architecture and Training Hyperparameters
- Input Layer: 5 neurons corresponding to the feature vector .
- Hidden Layers: Two fully connected hidden layers, each consisting of 64 neurons, yielding the architecture . This two-layer configuration provides sufficient representational capacity to capture the non-linear interactions among the parameters.
- Output Layer: 3 neurons producing the simultaneous predictions of the Lower Bound (), the Operator Error (E), and the Upper Bound ().
- Activation Function: The Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU), defined as , applied to all hidden neurons.
- Optimizer: The Adam (Adaptive Moment Estimation) solver with an initial learning rate . Training was allowed for a maximum of 5000 epochs, with early stopping triggered when the loss improvement over 50 consecutive iterations falls below .
4.3. Results and Discussion
5. Applications
- The arithmetic mean:
- The harmonic mean:
- The logarithmic mean:
- The p-logarithmic mean (for ):
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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| N | IC95% Lower | IC95% Upper | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 0.99875 | 0.00015 | 0.99854 | 0.99910 | 0.99846 | 0.99904 |
| 4000 | 0.99919 | 0.00013 | 0.99896 | 0.99938 | 0.99894 | 0.99944 |
| 6000 | 0.99936 | 0.00009 | 0.99916 | 0.99948 | 0.99918 | 0.99954 |
| 8000 | 0.99948 | 0.00009 | 0.99934 | 0.99967 | 0.99930 | 0.99966 |
| 10,000 | 0.99955 | 0.00006 | 0.99945 | 0.99966 | 0.99943 | 0.99968 |
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Alanzi, A.R.A.; Al-Hazmy, M.; Fakhfakh, R.; Saleh, W.; Ben Makhlouf, A.; Lakhdari, A. A Comprehensive Analysis of Proportional Caputo-Hybrid Fractional Inequalities and Numerical Verification via Artificial Neural Networks. Fractal Fract. 2026, 10, 247. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract10040247
Alanzi ARA, Al-Hazmy M, Fakhfakh R, Saleh W, Ben Makhlouf A, Lakhdari A. A Comprehensive Analysis of Proportional Caputo-Hybrid Fractional Inequalities and Numerical Verification via Artificial Neural Networks. Fractal and Fractional. 2026; 10(4):247. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract10040247
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlanzi, Ayed R. A., Mariem Al-Hazmy, Raouf Fakhfakh, Wedad Saleh, Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf, and Abdelghani Lakhdari. 2026. "A Comprehensive Analysis of Proportional Caputo-Hybrid Fractional Inequalities and Numerical Verification via Artificial Neural Networks" Fractal and Fractional 10, no. 4: 247. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract10040247
APA StyleAlanzi, A. R. A., Al-Hazmy, M., Fakhfakh, R., Saleh, W., Ben Makhlouf, A., & Lakhdari, A. (2026). A Comprehensive Analysis of Proportional Caputo-Hybrid Fractional Inequalities and Numerical Verification via Artificial Neural Networks. Fractal and Fractional, 10(4), 247. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract10040247

