Research Article

A Comparison of Hour-Ahead Solar Irradiance Forecasting Models Based on LSTM Network

Table 7

The best parameters and architecture of the six LSTM models for 1 hour ahead forecasting.

ModelInput shapeStructure (hidden layers)Optimizer/epoch
Main inputAuxiliary input

Model I-A(k × 10 × 1)100-40 (LSTM)Adam/200
Model I-B(k × 11 × 5)100-40 (LSTM)Adam/200
Model II-AC(k × 10 × 1)(k × 3 × 1)32 (LSTM)-64-32 (MLP)Adam/200
Model II-AD(k × 8 × 1)(k × 3 × 1)32 (LSTM)-64-32 (MLP)Adam/200
Model II-BC(k × 7 × 5)(k × 3 × 1)32 (LSTM)-64-32 (MLP)Adam/200
Model II-BD(k × 12 × 5)(k × 3 × 1)30-10 (LSTM)-64-32 (MLP)Adam/200

k: the sample size of the minibatch.