<p style="line-height:150%;text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt;">Air quality prediction is crucial for environmental monitoring and public health. This work presents a new prediction model for air quality prediction using a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D- CNN). The proposed model resembles U-Net architecture which is used in image segmentation tasks popularly. The proposed model uses the strength of U-Net’s encoder-decoder design to capture both local and global features effectively. To enhance the model's performance, we integrate attention mechanisms to focus on the most relevant features. In addition, the self-calibrated convolutions are applied to adjust the convolutional filters to improve feature representation. The parameters of the proposed model are fine-tuned using the Frilled Lizard Optimization (FLO)&nbsp;<span> </span>algorithm for optimal performance. Experimental results show that the proposed model significantly outperforms traditional methods in terms of validation loss and Mean Square Error rates.</p>
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