Optimal Training Configurations of a CNN-LSTM-Based Tracker for a Fall Frame Detection System.

Wearable electroencephalography (EEG) devices for seizure detection accuracy and reliability are deep learning (DL) applications in the field of epilepsy diagnosis. In this study, we sought to increase the accuracy of seizure detection using advanced DL algorithms on the Children’s Hospital Boston - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CHB-MIT) EEG database. First, a fully convolutional network (FCN) was trained and assessed using accuracy and recall/precision metrics, and the early stopping technique was used to avoid overfitting. To assess the performance, the FCN was evaluated in terms of various metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC)-area under the curve (AUC). In addition, two-dimensional (2D) convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and long short-term memory (LSTM) models were used to model the database, and their performance was thoroughly measured using different metrics, graphs, and confusion matrices. Using LSTM variants, such as standard LSTM, bidirectional LSTM, stacked LSTM, and LSTM attention mechanisms, hybrid convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM) models were trained and compared. The comparison was conducted based on the training and validation accuracy and loss, as well as the graphs resulting from the precision–recall curves. Apart from DL approaches, EEG signal analysis using time–frequency techniques, such as wavelet transform and short-time Fourier transform, has also been investigated. These methods assisted in the analysis of the time–frequency features of EEG signals in combination with DL models. This study demonstrates that the performance of wearable EEG devices can be augmented using a combination of DL and seizure signal processing techniques. The FCN achieved an accuracy of 92%, with a recall for seizures of 33%, an F1-score of 0.03, and strong ROC-AUC results. The 2D CNN achieved 96% accuracy, a seizure recall of 70%, an F1-score of 0.12, and an ROC-AUC score of 78%. The baseline LSTM struggled with effectiveness at 53% accuracy with a seizure recall of 18%. In contrast, the LSTM model, which incorporated synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) balancing, was able to reach improvements of up to 89% accuracy, with a precision of 91%, a recall of 86%, an F1-score of 0.89, and a strong ROC curve performance. Among the models, the LSTM with SMOTE was the best performer, with 89% accuracy, 91% precision, 86% recall, and an F1-score of 0.89. These results provide evidence that applying techniques for data balancing in combination with certain DL network architectures significantly improves the detection of seizures using wearable EEG devices worn on the body. We believe that real-time monitoring and high-performance systems are feasible using optimized DL frameworks. The analysis of the performance of different models allows for the understanding of the possibilities of optimizing the architectures of DL algorithms for the modern diagnosis of epilepsy in real time. The source code used to carry out the experiments is publicly available at CHB-MIT EEG Dataset Python Scripts (https://www.kaggle.com/code/adnankust/adnaneeg1).

This research aims to implement deep learning techniques to determine fact and fake news in Indonesian language. The methods used are Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM). The stages of the research consisted of collecting data, labeling data, preprocessing data, word embedding, splitting data, forming CNN and LSTM models, evaluating, testing new input data and comparing evaluations of the established CNN and LSTM models. The Data are collected from a fact and fake news provider site that is valid, namely TurnbackHoax.id. There are 1786 news used in this study, with 802 fact and 984 fake news. The results indicate that the CNN and LSTM methods were successfully applied to determine fact and fake news in Indonesian language properly. CNN has an accuracy test, precision and recall value of 0.88, while the LSTM model has an accuracy test and precision value of 0.84 and a recall of 0.83. In testing the new data input, all of the predictions obtained by CNN are correct, while the prediction results obtained by LSTM have 1 wrong prediction. Based on the evaluation results and the results of testing the new data input, the model produced by the CNN method is better than the model produced by the LSTM method.

Many countries around the globe, including Tanzania, are investing in renewable energy, partly because of the need to increase electric power generation and meet the ever-increasing electricity demands, and partly because of the need to combat global climate change caused by carbon emissions from fossil fuel-based electricity production. Kishapu Solar Project, located in Kishapu District, Shinyanga Region, Tanzania, is one of the renewable energy projects with a planned generation of 150 MW of electric power once completed, using solar photovoltaic technology. Accurate forecasting of solar radiation is important in managing and maintaining solar energy plants. Inaccurate forecasting of solar radiation can lead to poor harvest of solar energy and poor management of solar energy plants, which directly impacts electricity contribution to the national electricity grid. Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and its variant, PeepHole LSTM, are examples of Deep Learning models that can be used to predict solar radiation. The purpose of PeepHole LSTM is to introduce “peephole” connections in the LSTM model, which allow LSTM gates to directly inspect memory cell state and hence have richer information to process. However, there is still a research gap on the impact of “peephole” connections on the prediction performance of the LSTM model, especially in the context of forecasting solar radiation in Kishapu District, where the Kishapu Solar Project is located. The purpose of this study is to fill this research gap by developing both LSTM and PeepHole LSTM models and comparing their performances in forecasting solar radiation in Kishapu District. The 14-year Kishapu District daily solar radiation (Downward Shortwave Radiation) dataset was first pre-processed by scaling (normalizing) it using Standard Scaler and then split into training set (the first 70%), validation set (the next 15%) and test set (the last 15%) before being utilized to train and test the developed LSTM and PeepHole LSTM models. Both LSTM and PeepHole LSTM models used the previous 5 days' solar radiation values as inputs to predict the output (next day (6th day) solar radiation value). The trained and better-performing model between the two was finally saved in .h5 format and integrated with a Gradio based Web Application to provide a user interface for officials in Kishapu District and at Kishapu Solar Project to predict daily solar radiation. The findings from performance evaluation revealed that the LSTM model outperformed the PeepHole LSTM model in predicting solar radiation by achieving test Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) scores of 26.22 W/m2 and 36.65 W/m2, respectively, compared to MAE and RMSE scores of 30.84 W/m2 and 41.88 W/m2, respectively, achieved by the PeepHole LSTM model, concluding that “peephole” connections reduce the performance of the LSTM model rather than increasing it when used to forecast solar radiation in Kishapu District. This study’s recommendation to Artificial Intelligence (AI) software developers and researchers is to use the LSTM rather than the PeepHole LSTM Deep Learning model when forecasting solar radiation in Kishapu District and in locations with similar climatic conditions

The long short-term memory (LSTM) model is widely used in multiple areas, mainly for speech recognition, natural language processing and activity recognition. In the last few years, we started to see many variants of LSTM for recurrent neural networks since its inception in 1997. However, there weren’t many studies that have addressed the LSTM’s gating mechanism. In this paper, we propose a novel LSTM framework where we modify the architecture of the LSTM unit by adding a new layer that we call the “outlier gate”. The latter controls the flow of information that goes into the LSTM cell. This added signal allows us to avoid both the carry-over effect that the outliers have on the forecasted point and a bias in the estimates of our LSTM model – caused by unusual or non-repetitive events. The proposed architecture led us to an end-to-end trainable model that we applied in this paper to a financial time-series forecasting problem. Our results demonstrate that the new proposed LSTM architecture achieves better performance than the state-of-the-art original LSTM model.

An accurate electrical Short-term Load Forecasting (STLF) is an eminent factor in the power generation, electrical load dispatching and energy planning for the power supply companies, specifically in developing countries. This paper proposes a novel temporal feature selection-based Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) model developed by the combination of standard Artificial Neural Network (ANN) layer and LSTM for electrical short term load forecasting. The LSTM model has excellent capability of predicting the stochastic nature of an hour ahead electrical loads. The standard ANN layer consisting 11 neurons is used as an input to LSTM cells. Such a combination of ANN layer with LSTM was never proposed before. The proposed model accommodates variations in weather as well as temporal inputs like humidity, holidays, and date-time features in the hourly load data of the power supply company situated in Johor, Malaysia. This paper gives the insights of hyper parameter tuning to capture the more generalized electrical load patterns in the dataset without compromising the time complexity of the proposed model. The proposed approach was compared with five existing approaches, namely: ANN, LSTM model 1, LSTM model 2, LSTM model 3 and Convolutional Neural Network-LSTM (CNN-LSTM) using hourly load dataset of Johor. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperformed the existing approaches in terms of root mean square error, mean absolute percentage error and Diebold-Mariano statistical inference test within 95% confidence interval.

Abstract. The information available on the internet nowadays is diverse and moves very quickly. Information is becoming easier to obtain by the general public with the numerous online media outlets, including news portals that provide up-to-date information insights. Various news portals earn revenue from advertising using pay-per-click methods that encourage article writers to use clickbait techniques to attract visitors. However, the negative effects of clickbait include a decrease in journalism quality and the spread of hoaxes. This problem can be prevented by using text classification to classify clickbait in news titles. One method that can be used for text classification is a neural network. Artificial neural networks use algorithms that can independently adjust input coefficient weights. This makes this algorithm highly effective for modeling non-linear statistical data. The artificial neural network algorithm, especially the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), has been widely used in various natural language processing fields with satisfying results, including text classification. To improve the performance of the neural network model, adjustments can be made to the model's hyperparameters. Hyperparameters are parameters that cannot be obtained through data and must be defined before the training process. In this research, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model was used in clickbait classification in news titles. Sixteen neural network models were trained with different hyperparameter configurations for each model. Hyperparameter tuning was carried out using the random search algorithm. The dataset used was the CLICK-ID dataset published by William & Sari, 2020[1], with a total of 15,000 annotated data. The research results show that the developed LSTM model has a validation accuracy of 0.8030, higher than William & Sari's research, and a validation loss of 0.4876. Using this model, researchers were able to classify clickbait in news titles with fairly good accuracy. Purpose: The study was to develop and evaluate a LSTM model with hyperparameter tuning for clickbait classification on news headlines. The thesis also aims to compare the performance of simple LSTM and bidirectional LSTM for this task. Methods: This study uses CLICK-ID dataset and applies different text preprocessing techniques. The dataset later was used to build and train 16 LSTM models with different hyperparameters and evaluates them using validation accuracy and loss. This study uses random search for hyperparameter tuning. Result: The results of the study show that the best model for clickbait classification on news headlines is a bidirectional LSTM model with one layer, 64 units, 0.2 dropout rate, and 0.001 learning rate. This model achieves a validation accuracy of 0.8030 and a validation loss of 0.4876. The results also show that hyperparameter tuning using random search can improve the performance of the LSTM models by avoiding zero probabilities and finding the optimal values for the hyperparameters. Novelty: This study compares and analyzes the different preprocessing methods on text and the different configurations of the models to find the best model for clickbait classification on news headlines. The study also uses hyperparameter tuning to tune the model into the best model and finding the optimal values for the hyperparameters.

Handwritten digit recognition, a task in computer vision, is critical for applications such as postal automation, banking, and digitization of forms. Traditional approaches have leveraged statistical models, but the rise of deep learning, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM), has revolutionized the field. However, a comprehensive performance comparison of CNN and LSTM architectures in the context of handwritten digit classification remains underexplored. This study aimed to address this gap by evaluating and comparing CNN and LSTM models for the classification of handwritten digits. Two machine learning models – Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) were trained with the preprocessed handwritten digit dataset. The CNN model was designed with multiple convolutional and pooling layers, along with dropout for regularization. The LSTM model was designed with LSTM layers to capture sequential patterns in the data, followed by a dense layer for classification. The models were implemented in python, evaluated and compared based on accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score. The evaluation and comparison results indicate that CNN achieved 99.31% accuracy, 99.0% precision, 99.0% recall, and a 99.0% F1-score, while LSTM achieved 98.90% accuracy, 99.0% precision, 99.0% recall, and a 99.0% F1-score. The results demonstrated that CNN outperformed LSTM in terms of accuracy and misclassification errors, making it the optimal choice for image-based handwritten digit recognition. This finding underscores the efficiency of CNN in addressing challenges related to digit recognition, contributing to the advancement of automated digit classification systems and improving the accuracy of image-based classification tasks.

In today’s digitally driven world, network security has become a top accountability as cyberattacks become more sophisticated, especially within emerging NextG network infrastructures. Advanced threats, including as zero-day exploits, polymorphic malware, and large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, have surpassed traditional Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS), which frequently use out-of-date signature-based methodologies. These conventional methods not only struggle to detect unknown attack patterns but are also hindered by the issue of imbalanced datasets, where minority attack classes are underrepresented and frequently overlooked. To address these challenges, we proposes an innovative NIDS framework tailored for NextG networks that combines Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models. The framework utilizes GANs to generate synthetic samples for minority classes, ensuring a balanced dataset and enhancing the detection of underrepresented attack types. The CNN and LSTM models, applied independently, leverage their respective strengths to extract spatial and temporal features from network traffic, achieving robust classification accuracy. Furthermore, we integrate Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME) to make model predictions transparent, increasing trust and usability for practical deployment. Our framework is evaluated on the NF-CSE-CIC-IDS2018 dataset and achieves outstanding results. The LSTM model attains a detection accuracy of 99.67%, while CNN achieves 97.45%. On this GitHub Repository, the entire data analysis and prediction method is available for use by anyone. Here, both models perform exceptionally well in detecting minority attack classes, with the LSTM showing superior consistency across all metrics. This framework’s high accuracy, explainability, and adaptability make it a critical tool for securing dynamic and high-speed NextG networks against evolving cyber threats.

Wave runup prediction is necessary for offshore structure designs and early warnings. Data-driven methods based on machine learning have inspired reduced-order solutions for wave–structure interaction problems. This study provides the quantification of deep learning algorithms’ potential for wave runup prediction. Two prominent deep learning models were utilized to predict the wave runups along the fore column of semisubmersible under head seas. The long short-term memory (LSTM) and the temporal convolutional networks (TCNs) were comprehensively compared based on the datasets from a model test carried out in the deep ocean basin. The LSTM and TCN model structures were optimized to compare prediction accuracy and computational complexity reasonably. The results reveal that (1) both developed TCN and LSTM models had a satisfied prediction accuracy of over 90%. Their predictions were extended to 10 s into the future with accuracies over 80% and 45%, respectively. (2) With the noise-extended datasets, the LSTM model was robust to noises, while the TCN model showed better prediction performance on the extreme wave runup events. (3) The incident wave and dominant rotation provided the major information for wave runup prediction. TCN and LSTM models’ prediction accuracies were 91.5% and 89.3% based on the simplified input tensors composed of incident wave and pitch. The comparison showed the great potential of the TCN model to predict the nonlinear wave runup with less time and memory costs. The input tensors’ design and optimization based on physical understanding also play a significant role in the prediction performance.

Classification can significantly impact treatment decisions and patient outcomes. This study evaluates and compares the performance of three machine learning models Extreme Learning Machine (ELM), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in breast cancer classification. ELM, known for its fast-learning speed and strong generalization, is compared with LSTM, which is effective in capturing long-term dependencies in sequential data, and CNN, which is renowned for its ability to automatically extract features from images and structured data. The models were trained and tested on a breast cancer dataset, focusing on accuracy and computational efficiency. The results revealed that while CNNs demonstrated better accuracy in feature-rich data, LSTMs excelled in handling sequential data patterns. On the other hand, ELM offers a good balance between training speed and classification performance. This comparative analysis provides valuable insights into the strengths and limitations of each model, contributing to the development of more effective breast cancer diagnostic tools. In this case, LSTM outperformed ELM by 0.91%, outperformed CNN significantly by 3.72%, and outperformed Improved LSTM by 0.91%. This indicate that the LSTM model shows higher accuracy in breast cancer classification

Software vulnerabilities may lead to crucial security risks in software systems. Thus, prioritization of the vulnerabilities is an important task for security teams, and assessing how severe the vulnerabilities are would help teams during fixing and maintenance activities. We replicated a prior work which aims to predict the severity of software vulnerabilities by grouping vulnerabilities into different severity levels. We follow their approach on feature extraction using word embeddings, and on prediction model using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In addition, Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) models are used. We also extend the replicated work by aiming to predict severity scores rather than levels. We carried out two experiments for predicting severity levels and severity scores of 82,974 vulnerabilities. On predicting the severity levels, our LSTM and CNN models perform similarly with an F1 score of 0.756 F1 score and 0.752, respectively. On predicting the severity scores, LSTM, CNN and XGBoost models perform 16.14%, 17.03%, 18.91% MAPE values, respectively.

In recent years, various types of Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITSs) have produced a large amount of structured traffic flow data. Using these structured data and deep learning models to predict urban short-term traffic flow is an important focus of current research. In order to solve the problem of low accuracy of Long-Short Term Memory(LSTM) model in urban traffic flow prediction, this paper proposes an LSTM model based on attention mechanism. The proposed model can learn the importance of each past value to the current value from the long sequence of traffic data at the past moment, which makes it possible to extract more valuable features. Constructed a dataset using the traffic data in the core section of Wuhan for experiments, and the performance of the improved model is compared with the original LSTM model. The results show that when the input data sequence increases from 16 to 64, the MAPE of our proposed model is reduced by 3.76%, while the MAPE of the LSTM model is reduced by 1.51%, which proves the effectiveness of our proposed method.

Short-term traffic speed prediction is a promising research topic in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), which also plays an important role in the real-time decision-making of traffic control and guidance systems. However, the urban traffic speed has strong temporal, spatial correlation and the characteristic of complex nonlinearity and randomness, which makes it challenging to accurately and efficiently forecast short-term traffic speeds. We investigate the relevant literature and found that although most methods can achieve good prediction performance with the complete sample data, when there is a certain missing rate in the database, it is difficult to maintain accuracy with these methods. Recent studies have shown that deep learning methods, especially long short-term memory (LSTM) models, have good results in short-term traffic flow prediction. Furthermore, the attention mechanism can properly assign weights to distinguish the importance of traffic time sequences, thereby further improving the computational efficiency of the prediction model. Therefore, we propose a framework for short-term traffic speed prediction, including data preprocessing module and short-term traffic prediction module. In the data preprocessing module, the missing traffic data are repaired to provide a complete dataset for subsequent prediction. In the prediction module, a combined deep learning method that is an attention-based LSTM (ATT-LSTM) model for predicting short-term traffic speed on urban roads is proposed. The proposed framework was applied to the urban road network in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, with a 30-day traffic speed dataset (floating car data) used as the experimental sample. Results show that the proposed method outperforms other deep learning algorithms (such as recurrent neural network (RNN) and convolutional neural network (CNN)) in terms of both calculating efficiency and prediction accuracy. The attention mechanism can significantly reduce the error of the LSTM model (up to 12.4%) and improves the prediction performance.

Abstract. This study presents a comparative analysis of different neural network models, including convolutional neural networks (CNN), long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent units (GRUs), with regard to predicting discharge within ungauged basins in Hesse, Germany. All models were trained on 54 catchments with 28 years of daily meteorological data, either including or excluding 11 static catchment attributes. The training process for each model scenario combination was repeated 100 times using a Latin hypercube sampler for hyperparameter optimisation with batch sizes of 256 and 2048. The evaluation was carried out using data from 35 additional catchments (6 years) to ensure predictions in basins that were not part of the training data. This evaluation assessed predictive accuracy and computational efficiency concerning varying batch sizes and input configurations and conducted a sensitivity analysis of dynamic input features. The findings indicated that all examined artificial neural networks demonstrated significant predictive capabilities, with a CNN model exhibiting slightly superior performance, closely followed by LSTM and GRU models. The integration of static features was found to improve performance across all models, highlighting the importance of feature selection. Furthermore, models utilising larger batch sizes displayed reduced performance. The analysis of computational efficiency revealed that a GRU model was 41 % faster than the CNN model and 59 % faster than the LSTM model. Despite a modest disparity in performance among the models (<3.9 %), the GRU model's advantageous computational speed rendered it an optimal compromise between predictive accuracy and computational demand.

The effective integration of photovoltaic (PV) systems into the grid which facilitates better planning and resource allocation depends on accurate day-ahead solar power forecasts. This paper proposes a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model for forecasting solar power generation one day in advance with the algorithm inspired by Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). A year's worth of real-time data for a 4.5 kW PV system is used to train and test the model with input characteristics including temperature, PV power production and solar irradiation. Over the course of three seasons—summer, winter, and monsoon—the performance of the ACO-optimized LSTM model is contrasted with that of a simple LSTM model and an LSTM model enhanced by particle swarm optimization (PSO). This encompasses metrics like R-squared (R²) values, Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE). The PSO-optimized LSTM model (MAE of 0.31 kW, RMSE of 0.38 kW and R² of 0.88) and the baseline LSTM model (MAE of 0.35 kW, RMSE of 0.42 kW and R² of 0.85) couldn't match the ACO-optimized LSTM model's summertime MAE of 0.27 kW, RMSE of 0.33 kW and R² of 0.92. Similar trends also surfaced throughout the monsoon and winter seasons, with the ACO-optimized model consistently outperforming the others. In the winter, for instance, it obtained an R² of 0.93, an RMSE of 0.26 kW and an MAE of 0.22 kW. With regard to hyper parameter optimization and overall performance, these findings demonstrate the ACO-optimized LSTM model's superiority over the baseline and PSO-optimized LSTM models highlighting its improved prediction precision for all seasons. The effectiveness of ACO in bolstering solar power forecast models is confirmed by this study and provides a solid basis for deep learning model improvement in practical PV applications.