{"title":"Impact of Near-Time Information for Prediction on Microeconomic Balanced Time Series Data using Different Machine Learning Methods","authors":"Frederik Collin, M. Kies","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3559645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3559645","url":null,"abstract":"Instead of relying solely on data of a single time series it is possible to use information of parallel, similar time series to improve prediction quality. Our data set consists of microeconomic data of daily store deposits from a large number of different stores. We analyze how prediction performance regarding a given store can be increased by using data from other stores. First we compare several machine learning methods, including Elastic Nets, Partial Least Squares, Generalized Additive Models, Random Forests, Gradient Boosting and Neural Networks using only data of a single time series. Afterwards we show that Random Forests are able to better utilize parallel time series data compared to Partial Least Squares. Using near-time data of parallel time series is highly beneficial for prediction performance. To allow a fair comparison between different machine learning methods, we present a novel hyper-parameter optimization technique using a regression tree. It enables a fast and flexible determination of optimal parameters for a given method.","PeriodicalId":114865,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Neural Networks & Related Topics (Topic)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124419643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Granger Causality Detection in High-Dimensional Systems Using Feedforward Neural Networks","authors":"Hector F. Calvo-Pardo, Tullio Mancini, Jose Olmo","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3543687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3543687","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper proposes a novel methodology to detect Granger causality on average in vector autoregressive settings using feedforward neural networks. The approach accommodates unknown dependence structures between elements of high-dimensional multivariate time series with weak and strong persistence. To do this, we propose a two-stage procedure: first, we maximize the transfer of information between input and output variables in the network in order to obtain an optimal number of nodes in the intermediate hidden layers. Second, we apply a novel sparse double group lasso penalty function in order to identify the variables that have the predictive ability and, hence, indicate that Granger causality is present in the others. The penalty function inducing sparsity is applied to the weights that characterize the nodes of the neural network. We show the correct identification of these weights so as to increase sample sizes. We apply this method to the recently created Tobalaba network of renewable energy companies and show the increase in connectivity between companies after the creation of the network using Granger causality measures to map the connections.","PeriodicalId":114865,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Neural Networks & Related Topics (Topic)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116488983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"機械学習・深層学習・計量経済学に関する先行研究の整理 (Previous Studies on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Econometrics)","authors":"T. Ishii","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3530417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3530417","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Japanese Abstract:</b> 本研究は、機械学習・深層学習・強化学習の分野と計量経済学の分野の近接性を探す点に特徴をもつ。計量経済学において時系列分析やパネル分析を学んでいれば、機械学習は分析手法とともに計量経済学の考え方に多くの共通点をもつことから今後は関係性をより体系的に考察することが重要となると考える。また計量経済学も因果推論の分野では機械学習が活用されており、その関係性を説明する。さらに機械学習と計量経済学の近年の研究の進展を概観するため、画像認識や音声認識における機械学習のビジネスへの応用やCATEやLASSO、 政策配分問題としてのELMや疫学における因果推論としてCMA(因果媒介分析)・Causal Forest・SDD・構造推定などを幅広く扱う。<br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> This research is characterized in that it seeks closeness between the fields of machine learning, deep learning and reinforcement learning and the field of econometrics. If you are studying time series analysis or panel analysis in econometrics, machine learning has much in common with econometrics as well as analytical methods, so it is important to consider relationships more systematically in the future. I think it will be. In econometrics, machine learning is used in the field of causal inference, and the relationship is explained. In order to give an overview of recent advances in research on machine learning and econometrics, we have applied machine learning to business in image recognition and speech recognition, CATE and LASSO, ELM as a policy distribution problem, and CMA (causal inference in epidemiology). Mediation analysis), Causal Forest, SDD, structure estimation, etc.","PeriodicalId":114865,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Neural Networks & Related Topics (Topic)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129248070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Forecasting With Autoregressive Methods and Neural Networks","authors":"J. Chen","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3521532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3521532","url":null,"abstract":"Neural networks can forecast economic data with accuracy matching that of conventional autoregressive methods such as SARIMA and VAR. This study uses dense, recurrent, convolutional, and convnet/RNN hybrids to conduct time-series analysis of interest rates, consumer and producer prices, and labor market data. Training on 14 years of data, neural networks produce accurate 50-year forecasts. Gaps in these forecasts may reveal macroeconomic regime changes. Failures in otherwise accurate neural network forecasts may thus inform theoretical economic hypotheses through unsupervised machine learning.","PeriodicalId":114865,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Neural Networks & Related Topics (Topic)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125663023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bankruptcy Prediction of Banks: Neural Review of Literature","authors":"Surbhi Dhama","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3517172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3517172","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a review of literature on the use of Artificial Neural Networks as a statistical tool for predicting the bankruptcy in Indian Private sector banks.","PeriodicalId":114865,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Neural Networks & Related Topics (Topic)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124712182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi Scenario Financial Planning via Deep Reinforcement Learning AI","authors":"Gordon Irlam","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3516480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3516480","url":null,"abstract":"Financial planning via deep reinforcement learning holds much promise. One implementation, AIPlanner, delivered near optimal financial results, but had a major shortcoming. It required training a separate neural network model for each financial scenario. This paper describes extending AIPlanner so that a small family of trained neural network models are capable of rapidly producing financial plans for a wide variety of financial scenarios. Additionally AIPlanner is extended to produce results over the lifecycle, both pre and post retirement, and for couples, as well as individuals. A reasonably realistic income tax model is incorporated. And finally, a more realistic stock model is used. Over the lifecycle, compared to the best discovered alternative strategy, reinforcement learning was found to effectively deliver 14% more retirement consumption.","PeriodicalId":114865,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Neural Networks & Related Topics (Topic)","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128362550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management","authors":"Söhnke M. Bartram, J. Branke, Mehrshad Motahari","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3692805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3692805","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence (AI) has a growing presence in asset management and has revolutionized the sector in many ways. It has improved portfolio management, trading, and risk management practices by increasing efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. In particular, AI techniques help construct portfolios based on more accurate risk and returns forecasts and under more complex constraints. Trading algorithms utilize AI to devise novel trading signals and execute trades with lower transaction costs, and AI improves risk modelling and forecasting by generating insights from new sources of data. Finally, robo-advisors owe a large part of their success to AI techniques. At the same time, the use of AI can create new risks and challenges, for instance as a result of model opacity, complexity, and reliance on data integrity.","PeriodicalId":114865,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Neural Networks & Related Topics (Topic)","volume":"63 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120897169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accuracy of Financial Distress Model Prediction: The Implementation of Artificial Neural Network, Logistic Regression, and Discriminant Analysis","authors":"Triasesiarta Nur, R. Panggabean","doi":"10.2991/assehr.k.200529.084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.084","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to predict financial failure forms an essential topic in financial research. The various models developed to predict the occurrence of Financial Distress and serve as an early warning system for the company's stakeholders before bankruptcy occurs. Enhanced accuracy of the predictions improves the ability to mitigate its adverse effect. This study aims to build Financial Distress models using Artificial Neural Network Model, Logistic Regression, and Discriminant Analysis, based on samples taken from manufacture sectors in the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2015-2018. Accuracy of the three techniques in predicting Financial Distress are compared and results indicate Artificial Neural Network Model gave a better performance than the other techniques. It is crucial to consider the choice of predictor variables that determined the success of the financial distress model.","PeriodicalId":114865,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Neural Networks & Related Topics (Topic)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131143536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Googling Fashion: Forecasting Fashion Consumer Behaviour Using Google Trends","authors":"E. Silva, Hossein Hassani, D. Madsen, Liz Gee","doi":"10.3390/SOCSCI8040111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/SOCSCI8040111","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to discuss the current state of Google Trends as a useful tool for fashion consumer analytics, show the importance of being able to forecast fashion consumer trends and then presents a univariate forecast evaluation of fashion consumer Google Trends to motivate more academic research in this subject area. Using Burberry—a British luxury fashion house—as an example, we compare several parametric and nonparametric forecasting techniques to determine the best univariate forecasting model for “Burberry” Google Trends. In addition, we also introduce singular spectrum analysis as a useful tool for denoising fashion consumer Google Trends and apply a recently developed hybrid neural network model to generate forecasts. Our initial results indicate that there is no single univariate model (out of ARIMA, exponential smoothing, TBATS, and neural network autoregression) that can provide the best forecast of fashion consumer Google Trends for Burberry across all horizons. In fact, we find neural network autoregression (NNAR) to be the worst contender. We then seek to improve the accuracy of NNAR forecasts for fashion consumer Google Trends via the introduction of singular spectrum analysis for noise reduction in fashion data. The hybrid neural network model (Denoised NNAR) succeeds in outperforming all competing models across all horizons, with a majority of statistically significant outcomes at providing the best forecast for Burberry’s highly seasonal fashion consumer Google Trends. In an era of big data, we show the usefulness of Google Trends, denoising and forecasting consumer behaviour for the fashion industry.","PeriodicalId":114865,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Neural Networks & Related Topics (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134464041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Neural Network Boosted Double Over-Dispersed Poisson Claims Reserving Model","authors":"Andrea Gabrielli","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3365517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3365517","url":null,"abstract":"We present an actuarial loss reserving technique that takes into account both claim counts and claim amounts. Separate (over-dispersed) Poisson models for the claim counts and the claim amounts are combined by a joint embedding into a neural network architecture. As starting point of the neural network calibration we use exactly these two separate (over-dispersed) Poisson models. Such a nested model can be interpreted as a boosting machine. It allows us for joint modeling and mutual learning of claim counts and claim amounts beyond the two individual (over-dispersed) Poisson models. Moreover, this choice of neural network initialization guarantees stability and accelerates representation learning.","PeriodicalId":114865,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Neural Networks & Related Topics (Topic)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124861040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}