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48 results for long prediction horizon

DMIDAS improves long-term forecasting accuracy in healthcare and electricity data.

problem Challenging long-term forecasting accuracy and computational complexity.
method Smoothness regularization and mixed data sampling techniques integrated into NBEATS architecture.
result Improves prediction accuracy by 5% on long forecasting horizons (1000 timestamps) compared to state-of-the-art models.

This work tackles long-term visual planning by goal-conditioned hierarchical predictors.

problem Current learning approaches fail on long-horizon tasks due to lack of goal information and coarse-to-fine planning.
method Formulate goal-conditioned predictors (GCPs) and hierarchical models to predict trajectories between observations.
result GCPs enable effective long-term planning with much longer horizons than before.

Paper fine-tunes a language model to predict long-term stock buy signals.

problem Predicting long-term stock price movements with narrative text.
method Fine-tuning a small language model on 10-K reports for buy/sell decisions.
result Buy signals generated from 10-K text are most precise at 6 and 9 months, providing 4.8-9% improvement over random selection.

Predicts long-term return distributions with time-varying volatility.

problem Risk management in long-horizon returns.
method Predicts future return distributions without specifying volatility dynamics or shock distribution.
result Derives risk measures like VaR and CTE from the predicted return distribution.

Behavioral theories posit that investor sentiment exhibits predictive power for stock returns, whereas there is little study have investigated the relationship between the time horizon of the predictive effect of investor sentiment and the firm characteristics. To this end, by using a Granger causality analysis in the …

2018-03-08abs ↗pdf ↗

ForecastGAN improves multi-horizon time series forecasting by integrating numerical and categorical features.

problem Limited performance of existing approaches in short-term and long-term forecasting.
method Decomposition, model selection, adversarial training.
result ForecastGAN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art transformer models for short-term forecasting.

Agents compose pre-trained policies for complex tasks, improving zero-shot performance.

problem Challenges in long-horizon predictions and estimating visitation distributions induced by policy sequences.
method Learn predictive jumpy world models of multi-step dynamics, enhancing predictions with a consistency objective.
result Compositional planning with jumpy world models yields, on average, a 200% relative improvement over primitive actions on long-horizon tasks.

The non-stationarity characteristic of the solar power renders traditional point forecasting methods to be less useful due to large prediction errors. This results in increased uncertainties in the grid operation, thereby negatively affecting the reliability and increased cost of operation. This research paper proposes…

2018-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

A new model decomposes equity returns and volatilities into memory components.

problem Understanding long-term equity dynamics and volatility patterns.
method Proposes a multivariate generalization of the variance ratio to decompose long-horizon equity dynamics.
result Identifies a five-factor model capturing persistent, antipersistent, and multi-scale memory in returns and volatility.

The study reveals distinct patterns in retail investors' holding periods affecting stock returns.

problem Understanding the impact of retail investors' investment horizons on stock returns.
method Using self-reported holding periods from StockTwits, the study categorizes retail investors into long-horizon and short-horizon groups and analyzes their return patterns.
result Long-horizon retail investors exhibit underreaction to earnings announcements, while short-horizon investors show overreaction.

This paper develops a method to derive optimal portfolios and risk premia explicitly in a general diffusion model for an investor with power utility and a long horizon. The market has several risky assets and is potentially incomplete. Investment opportunities are driven by, and partially correlated with, state variabl…

2012-03-07abs ↗pdf ↗

A framework for learning disentangled representations of symmetric environments.

problem Discovering and modelling the underlying structure of environments.
method Group representation theory for disentangled representations of dynamical environments.
result Our method enables accurate long-horizon predictions and correlates with disentanglement quality.

State-of-the-art forecasting methods using Recurrent Neural Net- works (RNN) based on Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) cells have shown exceptional performance targeting short-horizon forecasts, e.g given a set of predictor features, forecast a target value for the next few time steps in the future. However, in many appli…

2018-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Temporal aggregation reveals latent default correlation from monthly data.

problem Understanding effective default correlation from monthly default data.
method Temporal coarse-graining of latent default-probability paths.
result Temporal coarse-graining improves identifiability and reduces over-allocation of long-horizon fluctuations.

Temporal coarse-graining of latent default paths explains effective correlation in corporate defaults.

problem Understanding effective default correlation in corporate defaults.
method Temporal coarse-graining of latent default-probability paths, applied to corporate default-count data.
result Temporal coarse-graining provides a scale-consistent baseline that improves identifiability and reduces over-allocation of long-horizon fluctuations.

Deep learning models forecast stock market orders over multiple time frames.

problem Forecasting stock market orders over varying time frames.
method Encoder-decoder models with sequence-to-sequence and Attention mechanisms, leveraging Intelligent Processing Units (IPUs) for faster training.
result Multi-horizon forecasting outperforms single-horizon models, especially for long prediction periods.

Bayesian model predicts interest rates with short-term accuracy and long-term stability.

problem Improving short- and long-term prediction of time series with temporary non-stationary behavior.
method Time-varying autoregressive model with Bayesian regularization and MCMC inference.
result Model outperforms existing methods in both short and long-term predictions.

SAGA predicts multi-year earnings with adaptive intervals, improving forecast accuracy.

problem Forecasting long-range nonlinear structure in lifetime earnings.
method Decoder-only transformer for irregular tabular sequences, split conformal calibration.
result Significant improvement in forecast accuracy compared to existing methods.

Study analyzes Nifty 50 returns over 34 years, showing P/E ratio predicts long-term gains.

problem Understanding equity return dynamics in the Indian market over various horizons.
method Unified, distribution-aware, complexity-informed framework using 34 years of Nifty 50 data.
result P/E ratio probabilistically maps return distributions across different investment horizons.

A novel approach predicts long-term stock price trends using 2D-convolutional encoders and semantic segmentation.

problem Predicting long-term daily stock price changes with deep learning models.
method Proposes a hierarchical CNN structure with Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling blocks to capture both long and short-term temporal relationships.
result Achieved overall accuracy and AUC of 78.18% and 0.88 for predicting trends over the next 20 days.

Study forecasts sub-city real estate prices weekly using radar and news sentiment.

problem Limited availability of reliable real estate price indicators at neighborhood and long horizons.
method Combining satellite radar signals and news sentiment to forecast sub-city real estate prices.
result The multimodal model reduces mean absolute error by 35% at long horizons (26-34 weeks).

The paper predicts travel times using tree-based ensembles.

problem Predicting travel times between urban points over short and long horizons.
method Tree-based ensemble methods trained on taxi trip records with additional features from weather and routing data.
result Adding routing data improves model performance and short-term predictions require less data.

In this paper we seek to demonstrate the predictability of stock market returns and explain the nature of this return predictability. To this end, we introduce investors with different investment horizons into the news-driven, analytic, agent-based market model developed in Gusev et al. (2015). This heterogeneous frame…

2015-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we provide compelling evidence of cyclical mean reversion and multiperiod stock return predictability over horizons of about 30 years with a half-life of about 15 years. This implies that the US stock market follows a long-term rhythm where a period of above average returns tends to be followed by a perio…

2012-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Long horizon reinforcement learning is as hard as short horizon learning.

problem Understanding the difficulty of long horizon reinforcement learning problems.
method Introduced new concepts: ε-net for optimal policies and Online Trajectory Synthesis algorithm.
result Proved that sample complexity scales logarithmically with the planning horizon, refuting the conjecture.

Reward tweaking optimizes behavior for long-term goals by adjusting the reward function.

problem Optimizing behavior for long-term goals in reinforcement learning with unstable long planning horizons.
method Reward tweaking learns a surrogate reward function that induces optimal behavior for the original task.
result Reward tweaking guides agents towards better long-term returns while planning for short horizons.

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom of trend-following by showing that the medium-term horizon adds little value once short- and long-term components are included.

problem The conventional wisdom that more horizons improve diversification and performance is challenged.
method A Bayesian optimization framework reallocates exposure dynamically across horizons, optimizing horizon-level weights at the asset level and applying sparsity and turnover control for dynamic allocation across assets.
result The medium-term horizon contributes little incremental performance or diversification once short- and long-term components are included.

Max entropy exploration guides reinforcement learning agents to pursue achievable goals.

problem Achieving distant test-time goals in long-horizon tasks.
method Optimize entropy of historical achieved goals by focusing on sparsely explored areas.
result Order of magnitude better sample efficiency on long-horizon multi-goal tasks.

Proposes a variational autoencoder for long-term customer revenue forecasting.

problem Predicting long-term customer revenue from sparse and irregular transaction data.
method Variational Autoencoder (VAE) with flexible latent representation.
result Improves upon latest benchmarks in multiple real-world datasets.

Behavior cloning training instabilities amplified by SGD noise over long horizons.

problem Training instabilities in behavior cloning with deep neural networks.
method Empirical dissection of minibatch SGD updates and their effects on long-horizon rewards.
result Exponential moving average (EMA) of iterates effectively mitigates gradient variance amplification (GVA).

New algorithms for efficient learning with long-term rewards in contextual bandits.

problem Efficient learning with long-term rewards in contextual bandits.
method Proposes new algorithms leveraging sparsity to discover dependence patterns and arm parameters.
result Regret upper bounds for data-poor and data-rich regimes, showing improved sample complexity.

We propose a 4-factor model for overnight returns and give explicit definitions of our 4 factors. Long horizon fundamental factors such as value and growth lack predictive power for overnight (or similar short horizon) returns and are not included. All 4 factors are constructed based on intraday price and volume data a…

2014-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper clarifies long-horizon investment and DCA, showing no risk reduction but different exposure profiles.

problem Misleading claims about reducing risk with longer investment horizons and DCA.
method Unified probabilistic framework, defining risk and uncertainty, and introducing effective investment exposure.
result Different investment timing strategies can lead to distinct exposure profiles over time, affecting risk and uncertainty.

Framework uses expert intervention to solve long-horizon reinforcement learning tasks.

problem Long horizon robot learning tasks with sparse rewards.
method Option templates and expert intervention to enable high-level task understanding.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by two orders of magnitude.