The kernel and the parameters of support vector machine (SVM) have a significant impact on precision of the time series prediction to slope displacement. In view of better learning capability of local kernels and better generalization capability of global kernels
the mixed kernel is constructed by a typical local kernel-radial basis function (RBF) and a typical global kernel-polynomial kernel. By use of particle swarm optimization (PSO)
a new PSO-LSSVM model regression with mixed kernels is set up in this paper and applied to the left bank slope in Jinping Ⅰ Hydropower Station. Through comparing with the forecasting results of the existing SVM based on RBF
results demonstrate that the new model has great accuracy than the existing SVM with RBF only and has real application value in predicting deformations of slope.