Adopting improved Adam optimizer to train dendritic neuron model for water quality prediction.

Journal: Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
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Abstract

As one of continuous concern all over the world, the problem of water quality may cause diseases and poisoning and even endanger people's lives. Therefore, the prediction of water quality is of great significance to the efficient management of water resources. However, existing prediction algorithms not only require more operation time but also have low accuracy. In recent years, neural networks are widely used to predict water quality, and the computational power of individual neurons has attracted more and more attention. The main content of this research is to use a novel dendritic neuron model (DNM) to predict water quality. In DNM, dendrites combine synapses of different states instead of simple linear weighting, which has a better fitting ability compared with traditional neural networks. In addition, a recent optimization algorithm called AMSGrad (Adaptive Gradient Method) has been introduced to improve the performance of the Adam dendritic neuron model (ADNM). The performance of ADNM is compared with that of traditional neural networks, and the simulation results show that ADNM is better than traditional neural networks in mean square error, root mean square error and other indicators. Furthermore, the stability and accuracy of ADNM are better than those of other conventional models. Based on trained neural networks, policymakers and managers can use the model to predict the water quality. Real-time water quality level at the monitoring site can be presented so that measures can be taken to avoid diseases caused by water quality problems.

Authors

  • Jing Cao
    Eye Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhejiang Provincial Clinical Research Center for Eye Diseases, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Institute on Eye Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
  • Dong Zhao
    Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization, Key Laboratory of Evidence Science, Ministry of Education, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing 100088, China.
  • Chenlei Tian
    College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, Jiangsu, China.
  • Ting Jin
    Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
  • Fei Song
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.