title: Prediction of air pollutant concentration based on sparse response back-propagation training feedforward neural networks.
abstract: In this paper, we predict air pollutant concentration using a feedforward artificial neural network inspired by the mechanism of the human brain as a useful alternative to traditional statistical modeling techniques. The neural network is trained based on sparse response back-propagation in which only a small number of neurons respond to the specified stimulus simultaneously and provide a high convergence rate for the trained network, in addition to low energy consumption and greater generalization. Our method is evaluated on Hong Kong air monitoring station data and corresponding meteorological variables for which five air quality parameters were gathered at four monitoring stations in Hong Kong over 4 years (2012-2015). Our results show that our training method has more advantages in terms of the precision of the prediction, effectiveness, and generalization of traditional linear regression algorithms when compared with a feedforward artificial neural network trained using traditional back-propagation.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China.|School of Mathematics and Information, BeiFang University for Minority, Yinchuan, 750021, China.
authors.forename: Weifu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China. jszhang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jiangshe
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Future Cities, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Yee
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Leung
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000465:Algorithms; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D055904:Meteorology; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants
keywords: Air pollution prediction; Artificial neural network; Back-propagation; Generalization; Multiple linear regression; Sparse response