Coevolution of Neural Architectures and Features for Stock Market Forecasting: A Multi-objective Decision Perspective

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Coevolution of Neural Architectures and Features for Stock Market Forecasting: A Multi-objective Decision Perspective
المؤلفون: Hafiz, Faizal, Broekaert, Jan, La Torre, Davide, Swain, Akshya
المصدر: Decision Support Systems, 114015 (2023)
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science, Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing
الوصف: In a multi objective setting, a portfolio manager's highly consequential decisions can benefit from assessing alternative forecasting models of stock index movement. The present investigation proposes a new approach to identify a set of nondominated neural network models for further selection by the decision maker. A new coevolution approach is proposed to simultaneously select the features and topology of neural networks (collectively referred to as neural architecture), where the features are viewed from a topological perspective as input neurons. Further, the coevolution is posed as a multicriteria problem to evolve sparse and efficacious neural architectures. The well known dominance and decomposition based multiobjective evolutionary algorithms are augmented with a nongeometric crossover operator to diversify and balance the search for neural architectures across conflicting criteria. Moreover, the coevolution is augmented to accommodate the data based implications of distinct market behaviors prior to and during the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. A detailed comparative evaluation is carried out with the conventional sequential approach of feature selection followed by neural topology design, as well as a scalarized coevolution approach. The results on the NASDAQ index in pre and peri COVID time windows convincingly demonstrate that the proposed coevolution approach can evolve a set of nondominated neural forecasting models with better generalization capabilities.
Comment: 22 pages
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2023.114015
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14053
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2311.14053
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1016/j.dss.2023.114015