Improvement of an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Prediction Model Based on the Similarity Method: A Case Study of Office Building Cooling Load Prediction

Artificial intelligence algorithms (AIAs) have gained widespread adoption in air conditioning load prediction. However, their prediction accuracy is substantially influenced by the quality of training samples. To improve the prediction accuracy of air conditioning load, this study presents an AIA prediction model based on the method of similarity sample screening. Initially, the comprehensive similarity coefficient between samples was obtained by using the gray correlation method improved with information entropy. Subsequently, a subset of closely related samples was extracted from the original dataset and employed to train the artificial intelligence prediction model. Finally, the trained AIA prediction model was used to predict the air conditioning load. The results illustrate that the method of similarity sample screening effectively improved the prediction accuracy of BP neural network (BPNN) and extreme learning machine (ELM) prediction models. However, it is essential to note that this approach may not be suitable for genetic algorithm BPNN (GABPNN) and support vector regression (SVR) models.