Summary of Transformer For Times Series: An Application to the S&p500, by Pierre Brugiere and Gabriel Turinici
Transformer for Times Series: an Application to the S&P500
by Pierre Brugiere, Gabriel Turinici
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM); Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A new study explores the application of transformer models, successful in various machine learning tasks like Large Language Models and image generation, to financial time series analysis. The research constructs datasets for two scenarios: a synthetic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and real S&P500 data. A proposed Transformer architecture is presented, followed by promising results, including accurate predictions for the synthetic data and insights into quadratic variation and volatility prediction for the S&P500. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study uses transformer models to analyze financial time series. It creates datasets for two situations: a fake process that moves back and forth, like many financial markets do, and real data from the S&P500 stock market index. The researchers design a special Transformer model just for this task, then show some exciting results. They can accurately predict what will happen next in the synthetic data, and they learn some interesting things about the real S&P500 data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Image generation » Machine learning » Synthetic data » Time series » Transformer
