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		Meta Fuzzy Functions // Implements Meta Fuzzy Functions (MFFs)
		for regression Tak and Ucan (2026)
		doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2026.114592 by aggregating predictions from
		multiple base learners using membership weights learned in the
		prediction space of validation set. The package supports fuzzy
		and crisp meta-ensemble structures via Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) Tak
		(2018) doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2018.08.009, Possibilistic FCM (PFCM)
		Tak (2021) doi:10.1016/j.ins.2021.01.024, GustafsonKessel (GK)
		clustering, and k-means, and provides a workflow to (i)
		generate validation/test prediction matrices from common
		regression learners (linear and penalized regression via
		'glmnet', random forests, gradient boosting with 'xgboost' and
		'lightgbm'), (ii) fit cluster-wise meta fuzzy functions and
		compute membership-based weights, (iii) tune clustering-related
		hyperparameters (number of clusters/functions, fuzziness
		exponent, possibilistic regularization) via grid search on
		validation loss, and (iv) predict on new/test prediction
		matrices and evaluate performance using standard regression
		metrics (MAE, RMSE, MAPE, SMAPE, MSE, MedAE). This enables
		flexible, interpretable ensemble regression where different
		base models contribute to different meta components according
		to learned memberships.
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