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Based on four crop datasets, including maize, rice, wheat, and foxtail millet, we evaluated the prediction performance and computational efficiency of six representative genomic prediction models under four hyperparameter optimization strategies. The results showed that the optimal optimization strategy was jointly affected by crop species, target traits, and model types, and no single strategy consistently performed best across all scenarios. Bayesian optimization showed good prediction stability and achieved high prediction accuracy for most traits and models, especially in the rice and wheat datasets. Grid search and random search also showed strong competitiveness in some datasets. In contrast, although halving search reduced computational cost, it showed lower prediction stability in some cases. 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