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New Transformer Model Enhances Stock Index Forecasting with Data Augmentation

Researchers have developed a new Transformer-based architecture for one-step stock index forecasting, addressing challenges like noisy signals and distributional shifts in financial time series. The proposed framework incorporates advanced learning-rate scheduling, specifically cosine annealing with warmup, and a novel Shifted Data Augmentation (SDA) technique. Experiments on the VN30 and S&P 500 datasets showed that SDA significantly reduces forecasting errors and improves robustness, outperforming increased model complexity. AI

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New Transformer Model Enhances Stock Index Forecasting with Data Augmentation

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Tien Thanh Thach ·

    Robust Transformer-Based One-Step Stock Index Forecasting via Shifted Data Augmentation

    arXiv:2606.15701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers have shown remarkable success in sequence modeling, yet their direct application to financial time series remains challenging due to noisy signals, short-memory dynamics, and distributional shifts. This paper proposes a…