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Ground-level ozone prediction by support vector machine approach with a cost-sensitive classification scheme.

Wei-Zhen Lu1, Dong Wang

  • 1Department of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. bcwzlu@cityu.edu.hk

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A new cost-sensitive support vector classification model (CS-SVC) effectively addresses class imbalance in ground-level ozone (O3) prediction. CS-SVC improves forecasting of polluted days, crucial for public health alerts and emission reduction strategies.

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Area of Science:

  • Environmental Science
  • Computer Science
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Accurate ground-level ozone (O3) prediction is vital for public health and industrial safety, requiring models that perform well on both polluted and non-polluted days.
  • Class imbalance, where polluted days are infrequent, poses a significant challenge to predictive model performance, particularly for minority class detection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of class imbalance on standard support vector classification (S-SVC) for O3 prediction.
  • To propose and evaluate a cost-sensitive classification scheme (CS-SVC) to mitigate class imbalance issues in O3 forecasting.
  • To compare the performance of CS-SVC with S-SVC and support vector regression (SVR) on imbalanced air quality datasets.

Main Methods:

  • Implementation of a cost-sensitive classification scheme integrated into the standard support vector classification model, termed CS-SVC.
  • Experimental evaluation using imbalanced datasets from two Hong Kong air quality monitoring sites.
  • Comparative analysis of CS-SVC, S-SVC, and binary-converted SVR performance metrics, focusing on false positive and false negative rates.

Main Results:

  • The standard support vector classification (S-SVC) model demonstrates sensitivity to class imbalance, impacting O3 prediction accuracy.
  • The proposed CS-SVC model effectively overcomes class imbalance, significantly reducing false negatives for O3 polluted days at the cost of increased false positives for non-polluted days.
  • Support vector regression (SVR), when adapted for classification, shows performance comparable to S-SVC, indicating vulnerability to class imbalance.

Conclusions:

  • CS-SVC offers a robust solution for O3 prediction in the presence of class imbalance, outperforming S-SVC and SVR.
  • The enhanced ability of CS-SVC to identify O3 polluted days makes it a recommended model for protecting public health.
  • Addressing class imbalance is critical for developing reliable air quality prediction systems for alert dissemination and emission control.