Air quality index prediction using seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average transductive long short-term memory

We obtain the air quality index (AQI) for a descriptive system aimed to communicate pollution risks to the population. The AQI is calculated based on major air pollutants including O3, CO, SO2, NO, NO2, benzene, and particulate matter PM2.5 that should be continuously balanced in clean air. Air pollution is a major limitation for urbanization and population growth in developing countries. Hence, automated AQI prediction by a deep learning method applied to time series may be advantageous. We use a seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model for predicting values reflecting past trends considered as seasonal patterns. In addition, a transductive long short-term memory (TLSTM) model learns dependencies through recurring memory blocks, thus learning long-term dependencies for AQI prediction. Further, the TLSTM increases the accuracy close to test points, which constitute a validation group. AQI prediction results confirm that the proposed SARIMA-TLSTM model achieves a higher accuracy (93%) than an existing convolutional neural network (87.98%), least absolute shrinkage and selection operator model (78%), and generative adversarial network (89.4%).