Evaporation duct is a kind of special atmospheric stratification that frequently appears on the sea surface, which has an important influence on the propagation and attenuation of electromagnetic waves, and is an important factor affecting the efficiency of marine radars and communication equipment. After the development in more than half a century, evaporation duct height can be obtained by direct detection, theoretical model, inversion and machine learning. Machine learning can explore the hidden laws of data efficiently and has the potential to surpass the traditional theoretical model. In this paper, the Machine Learning methods in evaporation duct research are shown and prospects of machine learning methods in evaporation duct research are given.