A Novel Model for Air Quality Prediction by Integrating Neighborhood Rough Set and Long Short-term Memory Networks
摘要
Economic and industrial advancements have led to a significant decline in air quality. Accurate air quality prediction stands as an effective approach to advance environmental management. The traditional machine learning and neural networks for air quality prediction have insufficient generalization ability and overfitting problems when dealing with high-dimensional, heterogeneous, and highly uncertain air quality data. This study integrates neighborhood rough set (NRS) based attribute reduction with a long short-term memory (LSTM) network and proposes an NRS-LSTM model for PM 2.5 prediction. In the proposed framework, NRS is first employed to remove redundant attributes from air meteorological data, and the reduced feature subset is then used as the input of the LSTM predictor, with PM 2.5 concentration as the output variable. Empirical evaluations were conducted on datasets from Xi’an and Baoji, China. In the three-hour prediction task for Xi’an, averaged over four representative seasonal windows, the proposed NRS-LSTM reduced RMSE from 12.20 to 10.55, MAE from 9.67 to 8.27, and MAPE from 16.99% to 13.94%, while increasing the average