To improve the short-term wind power output prediction accuracy and overcome the model prediction instability problem, we propose a combined prediction model based on variational modal decomposition (VMD) combined with the improved whale algorithm (GSWOA) to optimize the long short-term memory network (LSTM) short-term wind power. First, VMD is utilized to decompose the wind power input sequence into modal components of different complexities, and the components are reconstructed into subcomponents with typical characteristics through approximate entropy, which reduces the computational scale ...