Abstract:To address the limitations of traditional short-term load forecasting methods in accurately capturing multi-time-scale features and the difficulty of adaptively optimizing hyperparameters in deep learning models, a short-term load forecasting model based on improved Feature Mode Decomposition (FMD) and Newton–Raphson Based Optimization (NRBO) for Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks is proposed. In the FMD module, auxiliary white noise is introduced to suppress mode mixing, and the traditional kurtosis-based mode selection is replaced with an energy-based selection mechanism to remove low-energy noise modes and enhance the stability of the decomposition. With these improvements, the original load sequence is decomposed into a set of intrinsic mode functions with different central frequencies. Meanwhile, NRBO is employed to globally optimize the LSTM hyperparameters, thereby improving the model’s convergence speed and generalization capability. Several forecasting models are constructed for comparison, and the experimental results show that the proposed FMD-NRBO-LSTM model achieves MAE, RMSE, and MAPE values of 5.1949 kW, 6.2923 kW, and 1.2747%, respectively, all outperforming the benchmark models and verifying the superior forecasting accuracy and generalization performance of the proposed approach.