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The aim of this study is to delineate the groundwater potential zones (GWPZs) in the Lower Valley of the Medjerda basin by using single benchmark machine learning models based on artificial neural network (ANN), random forest (RF), and support vector regression (SVR), and by developing a novel hybrid method, NB-RF-SVR, to reach the highest accuracy of groundwater potential prediction. Each model produced a spatial groundwater potential map (GPM) with the input of 26 groundwater-related factors (GRF) selected by the frequency ratio model and 70% of the transmissivity training data. The models\u2019 effectiveness was assessed using the AUC-ROC curve, sensitivity, specificity, MAE, and RMSE metric indicators. The validation findings revealed that all the models performed successfully for the GWPZ mapping, where the AUC values for the ANN, RF, SVR, and NB-RF-SVR models were estimated as 71%, 79%, 87%, and 92%, respectively. The relative importance of the GWPZs revealed that land use followed by geology and elevation were the most important factors. 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