October 2020
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ICIC Express Letters
This paper proposes the implementation of Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model for forecasting crop pest attack based on multivariate inputs of weather data. To enhance the model performance, the efforts implemented include optimizing the training process by applying sliding-windows methods and setting appropriate parameters. After obtaining the best settings, the proposed model was then compared with two other variants of the LSTM model, namely Vanilla LSTM and Stack LSTM. The model performance evaluation was done by finding Mean Square Error (MSE) and root mean square error values from training and testing process. The results show that there were increased performances from using sliding-windows method to optimize the training process and the appropriate parameter setting. Bidirectional LSTM model, along with the treatments implemented, gave the best performance compared to the two other models.