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A novel hybrid FA-Based LSSVR learning paradigm for hydropower consumption forecasting

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Due to the nonlinearity and nonstationary of hydropower market data, a novel hybrid learning paradigm is proposed to predict hydropower consumption, by incorporating firefly algorithm (FA) into least square support vector regression (LSSVR), i.e., FA-based LSSVR model. In the novel model, the powerful and effective artificial intelligence (AI) technique, i.e., LSSVR, is employed to forecast hydropower consumption. Furthermore, a promising AI optimization tool, i.e., FA, is especially introduced to address the crucial but difficult task of parameters determination in LSSVR (e.g., hyper and kernel function parameters). With the Chinese hydropower consumption as sample data, the empirical study has statistically confirmed the superiority of the novel FA-based LSSVR model to other benchmark models (including existing popular traditional econometric models, AI models and similar hybrid LSSVRs with other popular parameter searching tools), in terms of level and directional accuracy. The empirical results also imply that the hybrid FA-based LSSVR learning paradigm with powerful forecasting tool and parameters optimization method can be employed as an effective forecasting tool for not only hydropower consumption but also other complex data.

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    Ling Tang, Zishu Wang, Xinxie Li & Lean Yu

  2. School of Management, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    Guoxing Zhang

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This research was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars under Grant No. 71025005, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 91224001 and 71301006, National Program for Support of Top-Notch Young Professionals and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in BUCT.

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Tang, L., Wang, Z., Li, X. et al. A novel hybrid FA-Based LSSVR learning paradigm for hydropower consumption forecasting. J Syst Sci Complex 28, 1080–1101 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11424-015-4194-x

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