Short-term Wind Speed Prediction with a Two-layer Attention-based LSTM

Wind speed prediction is of great importance because it affects the efficiency and stability of power systems with a high proportion of wind power.Temporal-spatial wind speed features contain rich information;however,their use to predict wind speed remains one of the most challenging and less studied areas.This paper investigates the problem of predicting wind speeds for multiple sites using temporal and spatial features and proposes a novel two-layer attentionbased long short-term memory(LSTM),termed 2Attn-LSTM,a unified framework of encoder and decoder mechanisms to handle temporal-spatial wind speed data.To eliminate the unevenness of the original wind speed,we initially decompose the preprocessing data into IMF components by variational mode decomposition(VMD).Then,it encodes the spatial features of IMF components at the bottom of the model and decodes the temporal features to obtain each component's predicted value on the second layer.Finally,we obtain the ultimate prediction value after denormalization and superposition.We have performed extensive experiments for short-term predictions on real-world data,demonstrating that 2Attn-LSTM outperforms the four baseline methods.It is worth pointing out that the presented 2Atts-LSTM is a general model suitable for other spatial-temporal features.

Generating Cartoon Images from Face Photos with Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks

The generative adversarial network(GAN)is first proposed in 2014,and this kind of network model is machine learning systems that can learn to measure a given distribution of data,one of the most important applications is style transfer.Style transfer is a class of vision and graphics problems where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image.CYCLE-GAN is a classic GAN model,which has a wide range of scenarios in style transfer.Considering its unsupervised learning characteristics,the mapping is easy to be learned between an input image and an output image.However,it is difficult for CYCLE-GAN to converge and generate high-quality images.In order to solve this problem,spectral normalization is introduced into each convolutional kernel of the discriminator.Every convolutional kernel reaches Lipschitz stability constraint with adding spectral normalization and the value of the convolutional kernel is limited to[0,1],which promotes the training process of the proposed model.Besides,we use pretrained model(VGG16)to control the loss of image content in the position of l1 regularization.To avoid overfitting,l1 regularization term and l2 regularization term are both used in the object loss function.In terms of Frechet Inception Distance(FID)score evaluation,our proposed model achieves outstanding performance and preserves more discriminative features.Experimental results show that the proposed model converges faster and achieves better FID scores than the state of the art.