COVID-19 Propagation Prediction Model Using Improved Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithms in Combination with XGBoost and Bagging-Integrated Learning

Yonghui Duan, Yaqi Mao, Yibin Guo, Xiang Wang, Shen Gao and Pijush Samui

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2022, vol. 2022, 1-13

Abstract: Toward solving the slow convergence and low prediction accuracy problems associated with XGBoost in COVID-19-based transmission prediction, a novel algorithm based on guided aggregation is presented to optimize the XGBoost prediction model. In this study, we collect the early COVID-19 propagation data using web crawling techniques and use the Lasso algorithm to select the important attributes to simplify the attribute set. Moreover, to improve the global exploration and local mining capability of the grey wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm, a backward learning strategy has been introduced, and a chaotic search operator has been designed to improve GWO. In the end, the hyperparameters of XGBoost are continuously optimized using COLGWO in an iterative process, and Bagging is employed as a method of integrating the prediction effect of the COLGWO-XGBoost model optimization. The experiments, firstly, compared the search means and standard deviations of four search algorithms for eight standard test functions, and then, they compared and analyzed the prediction effects of fourteen models based on the COVID-19 web search data collected in China. Results show that the improved grey wolf algorithm has excellent performance benefits and that the combined model with integrated learning has good prediction ability. It demonstrates that the use of network search data in the early spread of COVID-19 can complement the historical information, and the combined model can be further extended to be applied to other prevention and control early warning tasks of public emergencies.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1155/2022/1314459

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