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The research used the Equilibrium optimizer (EO) to enhance and accelerate the performance of the radial basis function (RBF) network (REO) and support vector regression (SVR) (SEO) analytical methodologies. The novelty of this work is particularly attributed to the application of the EO, the assessment of fc including GGBFS, the comparison with other studies, and the use of a huge dataset with several input components. The combined SEO and REO systems demonstrated proficient estimation abilities, as evidenced by coefficient of determination (R2) values of 0.9946 and 0.9952 for the SEO\u2019s training and testing components and 0.9857 and 0.9914 for the REO, respectively. The research identifies the SVR optimized with the EO algorithm as the most successful system for predicting the fc of GGBFS concrete. 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