A hybrid LSTM-XGBoost model with residual correction for air quality prediction using SSA
摘要
Air pollution is a major contributor to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, prompting recent studies to adopt AI models for forecasting pollutant levels. In this work, we introduce a hybrid framework—SSA-LSTM-XGBoost—that applies a residual-correction strategy in four stages: (i) data preprocessing, (ii) training an LSTM network optimised with the Sparrow Search Algorithm (SSA), (iii) modelling the residuals with an SSA-optimised XGBoost learner, and (iv) fusing both outputs to obtain the final prediction. The framework is assessed on test and out-of-sample datasets and benchmarked against SVR, BiGRU, random forest, BiLSTM, and GRU. On the test set, SSA-LSTM-XGBoost attains the highest accuracy, recording an R