TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
ID  - uneatlantico9236
IS  - 7
KW  - evolutionary algorithm; auto-correlation; metal price; neural network; cross-validation; entropy
Y1  - 2023/03//
JF  - Mathematics
TI  - An Evolutionary Technique for Building Neural Network Models for Predicting Metal Prices
UR  - http://doi.org/10.3390/math11071675
A1  - Joshi, Devendra
A1  - Chithaluru, Premkumar
A1  - Anand, Divya
A1  - Hajjej, Fahima
A1  - Aggarwal, Kapil
A1  - Yélamos Torres, Vanessa
A1  - Bautista Thompson, Ernesto
VL  - 11
SN  - 2227-7390
N2  - In this research, a neural network (NN) model for metal price forecasting based on an evolutionary approach is proposed. Both the neural network model?s network parameters and network architecture are selected automatically. The time series metal price data set is used to construct a novel fitness function that takes into account both error minimizations and the reproduction of the auto-correlation function. Calculating the average entropy values allowed the selection of the input parameter count for the neural network model. Gold price forecasting was performed using the proposed methodology. The optimal hidden node number, learning rate, and momentum are 9, 0.026, and 0.76, respectively, according to the evolutionary-based NN model. The proposed strategy is shown to reduce estimation error while also reproducing the auto-correlation function of the time series data set by the validation results with gold price data. The performance of the proposed method is better than other current methods, according to a comparison study.
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