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Across traits and validation schemes, the nonlinear kernels consistently matched or outperformed GBLUP, with the greatest advantage observed for oil content and under the CV0 scheme. No single nonlinear kernel consistently outperformed the others, indicating that kernel performance was environment dependent. Compared with Random Forest, the non-linear kernels achieved comparable or superior predictive accuracy while preserving the mixed-model framework, enabling the estimation of variance components. Moreover, in the extra dataset, the Laplacian kernel consistently showed high predictive accuracy across all scenarios, supporting its use as a promising option to the widely used Gaussian kernel. 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