Table 4 Computational time comparison between the models.

From: Parallel boosting neural network with mutual information for day-ahead solar irradiance forecasting

Location

Models

Convergence time

Inference time

Computational time

(s)

(s)

(s)

Islamabad

CatBoost

0.459

0.033

0.492

XgBoost

0.247

0.003

0.25

RF

0.285

0.009

0.294

LSTM

284.637

0.466

285.103

GRU

243.045

0.471

243.516

PBNN

9.906

0.084

9.99

San Diego

CatBoost

0.308

0.001

0.309

XgBoost

0.381

0.002

0.383

RF

0.144

0.002

0.146

LSTM

56.238

0.292

56.53

GRU

50.159

0.229

50.388

PBNN

3.342

0.036

3.379