Work place: Soochow University /School of Computer Science & Technology, Suzhou, China
E-mail: yuchenfu@suda.edu.cn
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Research Interests: Computational Learning Theory, Data Mining, Data Compression, Data Structures and Algorithms
Biography
Yuchen Fu is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science & Technology, Faculty of Machine Learning & Data Mining, Soochow University. He obtained PhD in Computer Application Technology from Wuhan University, China in 2003. His research interests include intelligent computing, machine learning, and data mining.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2011.03.06, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2011
Nowadays there are lots of novel forecasting approaches to improve the forecasting accuracy in the financial markets. Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a modern statistical tool has been successfully used to solve nonlinear regression and time series problem. Unlike most conventional neural network models which are based on the empirical risk minimization principle, SVM applies the structural risk minimization principle to minimize an upper bound of the generalization error rather than minimizing the training error. To build an effective SVM model, SVM parameters must be set carefully. This study proposes a novel approach, support vector machine method combined with genetic algorithm (GA) for feature selection and chaotic particle swarm optimization(CPSO) for parameter optimization support vector Regression(SVR),to predict financial returns. The advantage of the GA-CPSO-SVR (Support Vector Regression) is that it can deal with feature selection and SVM parameter optimization simultaneously A numerical example is employed to compare the performance of the proposed model. Experiment results show that the proposed model outperforms the other approaches in forecasting financial returns.
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