no code implementations • 16 Feb 2021 • Elizabeth Fons, Paula Dawson, Xiao-jun Zeng, John Keane, Alexandros Iosifidis
Data augmentation methods have been shown to be a fundamental technique to improve generalization in tasks such as image, text and audio classification.
1 code implementation • 28 Oct 2020 • Elizabeth Fons, Paula Dawson, Xiao-jun Zeng, John Keane, Alexandros Iosifidis
Data augmentation methods in combination with deep neural networks have been used extensively in computer vision on classification tasks, achieving great success; however, their use in time series classification is still at an early stage.
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2020 • Elizabeth Fons, Paula Dawson, Xiao-jun Zeng, John Keane, Alexandros Iosifidis
In this paper we show that using transfer learning can help with this task, by pre-training a model to extract universal features on the full universe of stocks of the S$\&$P500 index and then transferring it to another model to directly learn a trading rule.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2019 • Elizabeth Fons, Paula Dawson, Jeffrey Yau, Xiao-jun Zeng, John Keane
The financial crisis of 2008 generated interest in more transparent, rules-based strategies for portfolio construction, with Smart beta strategies emerging as a trend among institutional investors.