Hybrid support vector machines with heuristic algorithms for prediction of daily diffuse solar radiation in air-polluted regions

Junliang Fan, Lifeng Wu, Xin Ma, Hanmi Zhou and Fucang Zhang

Renewable Energy, 2020, vol. 145, issue C, 2034-2045

Abstract: Increasing air pollutants significantly affect the proportion of diffuse (Rd) to global (Rs) solar radiation. This study proposed three new hybrid support vector machines (SVM) with particle swarm optimization algorithm (SVM-PSO), bat algorithm (SVM-BAT) and whale optimization algorithm (SVM-WOA) for predicting daily Rd in air-polluted regions. These models were further compared to standalone SVM, multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) models. The results showed that models with suspended particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter smaller than 2.5 μm and 10 μm (PM2.5 and PM10) and ozone (O3) produced more accurate daily Rd estimates than those without air pollution parameters, with average relative decreases in root mean square deviation (RMSD) of 11.1%, 10.0% and 10.4% for sunshine duration-based, Rs-based and combined models, respectively. SVM showed better accuracy than XGBoost and MARS. However, compared to SVM, SVM-BAT further enhanced the prediction accuracy and convergence rate in daily Rd modeling, followed by SVM-WOA and SVM-PSO, with relative decreases in RMSD of 2.9%–5.6%, 1.9%–4.9% and 1.1%–3.3%, respectively. The results highlighted the significance of incorporating air pollutants for more accurate estimation of daily Rd in air-polluted regions. Heuristic algorithms, especially BAT, are highly recommended for improving performance of standalone machine learning models.

Keywords: Air pollution; Support vector machines; Extreme gradient boosting; Particle swarm optimization algorithm; Bat algorithm; Whale optimization algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.104

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