Volume 21 • Issue 2 • PP: 283-305 • 2026
Optimizing Smart-Home Energy Forecasting with Evolutionary Attention-based LSTM and Greylag Goose Optimization
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This study addresses the challenge of smart-home energy forecasting across multiple appliances under varying temperature and seasonal regimes, aiming to improve demand planning and household energy efficiency. The analysis leverages a 100,000-row dataset from Kaggle, encompassing appliance type, time of consumption, outdoor temperature, season, and household size. The study benchmarks several recurrent neural network models, including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM), Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), and Bidirectional RNN (BiRNN), as well as a feedforward Artificial Neural Network (ANN). A novel enhancement, the Evolutionary Attention-based LSTM (EALSTM), is introduced, and its hyperparameters are optimized using the Greylag Goose Optimization (GGO) algorithm. The performance of GGO-optimized EALSTM is compared to other metaheuristics, such as Differential Evolution (DE), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Quantum-Inspired Optimization (QIO), JAYA, Bat Algorithm (BA), and Stochastic Fractal Search (SFS). The results indicate that GGO-optimized EALSTM outperforms all other models, achieving superior accuracy across multiple metrics, including MSE, RMSE, MAE, r, R2 , RRMSE, NSE, and WI. Key contributions of the paper include (i) the establishment of an appliance- and season-aware forecasting benchmark, (ii) a comprehensive optimizer comparison for EALSTM using GGO, and (iii) the provision of actionable visual analytics to enhance the understanding of energy demand patterns and model errors.
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