Data-Driven Machine-Learning Model in District Heating System for Heat Load Prediction: A Comparison Study

Table 3

Performance results for one week.

Algorithm	Training			Testing
	MAE (%)	MAPE (%)	Correlation coefficient	MAE (%)	MAPE (%)	Correlation coefficient
SVR	64.91	3.11	0.90	70.32	3.43	0.91
PLS	265.24	12.73	0.81	238.68	10.42	0.79
RF	173.82	19.77	0.83	159.32	18.61	0.84