Multinomial Logistic Regression (MLR) is a common choice in models for various classes classification tasks because it is easy to understand and reveals the structure of probabilities. On the other hand, the usual way of training MLR via gradient based methods is very sensitive to local optima on the complicated log, likelihood surfaces, especially in cases of high, dimensional or noisy feature spaces. In this paper, an ABC, MLR hybrid method is introduced where MLR weight optimization is considered a global search problem and is done via three advanced variations of the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm: Gbest, guided ABC (GABC), Opposition Based ABC (OABC), and Improved ABC (IABC). Thus, each variation is focused on the different shortcomings of the basic ABC by gaining global best guidance, integrating opposition-based learning, and utilizing chaotic, map initialization with multi, dimensional update strategies, respectively. A composite fitness function that combines classification accuracy and cross, entropy loss is used to guide the search, and an early stopping mechanism is incorporated to avoid unnecessary computations. The resulting classifiers GABC, MLR, OABC, MLR, and IABC, MLR are tested via stratified 10, fold cross, validation on 15 benchmark datasets from KEEL and UCI repositories, covering binary and multi, class problems of different sizes and dimensionalities, and are compared with eight well, known machine learning algorithms. The experimental results show that these three hybrid models always perform better than the standard gradient, trained MLR baseline, with GABC, MLR attaining the highest mean accuracy (0.8208) and mean F1, score (0.8032) over all datasets. The proposed framework keeps the interpretability of MLR while significantly improving its optimization robustness, thus offering a good and flexible alternative to the standard training methods for multi, class logistic regression.