To address the challenges of reduced population diversity and sensitivity to hyperparameters in solving Symbolic Regression (SR) problems by using genetic evolutionary algorithms, a Deep Symbolic Regression Technique (DSRT) method based on Transformer was proposed. This method employed autoregressive capability of Transformer to generate expression symbol sequence. Subsequently, the transformation of the fitness value between the data and the expression symbol sequence was served as a reward value, and the model parameters were updated through deep reinforcement learning, so that the model was able to output expression sequence that fitted the data better, and with the model’s continuous converging, the optimal expression was identified. The effectiveness of the DSRT method was validated on the SR benchmark dataset Nguyen, and it was compared with DSR (Deep Symbolic Regression) and GP (Genetic Programming) algorithms within 200 iterations. Experimental results confirm the validity of DSRT method. Additionally, the influence of various parameters on DSRT method was discussed, and an experiment to predict the formula for surface pressure coefficient of an aircraft airfoil using NACA4421 dataset was performed. The obtained formula was compared with the Kármán-Tsien formula, yielding a mathematical formula with a lower Root Mean Square Error (RMSE).
This paper proposed a novel sparse tracking method based on multi-feature fusion to compensate for incomplete description of single feature. Firstly, to fuse various features, multiple feature descriptors of dictionary templates and particle candidates were encoded as the form of kernel matrices. Secondly, every candidate particle was sparsely represented as a linear combination of all atoms of dictionary. Then the sparse representation model was efficiently solved using a Kernelizable Accelerated Proximal Gradient (KAPG) method. Lastly, in the framework of particle filter, the weights of particles were determined by sparse coefficient reconstruction errors to realize tracking. In the tracking step, a template update strategy which employed incremental subspace learning was introduced. The experimental results show that, compared with the related state-of-the-art methods, this algorithm improves the tracking accuracy under all kinds of factors such as occlusions, illumination changes, pose changes, background clutter and viewpoint variation.
To solve the problem of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) concentration prediction, a PM2.5 concentration prediction model was proposed. First, through introducing the comprehensive meteorological index, the factors of wind, humidity, temperature were comprehensively considered; then the feature vector was conducted by combining the actual concentration of SO2, NO2, CO and PM10; finally the Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) prediction model was built based on feature vector and PM2.5 concentration data. The experimental results using the data from the city A and city B environmental monitoring centers in 2013 show that, the forecast accuracy is improved after the introduction of a comprehensive weather index, error is reduced by nearly 30%. The proposed model can more accurately predict the PM2.5 concentration and it has a high generalization ability. Furthermore, the author analyzed the relationship between PM2.5 concentration and the rate of hospitalization, hospital outpatient service amount, and found a high correlation between them.