Abstract
Short-term traffic flow forecasting is a vibrant research topic that has been growing in interest since the late 70’s. In the last decade this vibrant field has shifted its focus towards machine learning methods. These techniques often require fine-grained parameter tuning to obtain satisfactory performance scores, a process that usually relies on manual trial-and-error adjustment. This paper explores the use of Harmony Search optimization for tuning the parameters of neural network jointly with the selection of the input features from the dataset at hand. Results are discussed and compared to other tuning methods, from which it is concluded that neural predictors optimized via the proposed heuristic wrapper outperform those tuned by means of naïve parametrized algorithms, thus allowing for longer-term predictions. These promising results unfold potential applications of this technique in multi-location neighbor-aware traffic prediction.
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This work has been supported by the Basque Government through the ELKARTEK program (ref. KK-2015/0000080 and the BID3ABI project).
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Laña, I., Del Ser, J., Vélez, M., Oregi, I. (2017). Joint Feature Selection and Parameter Tuning for Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting Based on Heuristically Optimized Multi-layer Neural Networks. In: Del Ser, J. (eds) Harmony Search Algorithm. ICHSA 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 514. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3728-3_10
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