WGformer: A Weibull-Gaussian Informer based model for wind speed prediction

Accurate wind speed forecasting can improve energy management efficiency and promote the use of renewable energy. However, the inherent nonlinearity and fluctuation of wind speed make prediction challenging. To address these issues, we design an efficient Informer-based model, with improved calculation speed, forecasting accuracy and generalization ability. The proposed model in this paper reasonably integrates the Weibull-Gaussian transform, Informer and kernel mean square error loss and addresses the combination of various components. The Weibull-Gaussian transform is used as the data preprocessing module, which can remove non-Gaussian characteristics from the original data, and thus achieve noise reduction. The Informer is used as the main predictor, which can efficiently output accurate forecasting results based on an encoder-decoder architecture and self-attention mechanism. The kernel mean square error loss function, which shows strong robustness to outliers, is used to evaluate the nonlinearity of errors in reproducing kernel Hilbert space. To evaluate the performance of the proposed model, it is compared with several widely used models and state-of-the-art models. The experimental results indicate that the proposed model weakens the effect of outliers, yields high forecasting accuracy with mean square error = 0.35, and outperforms the baselines up to 8.5% on three datasets.