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most citedMinimally Supervised Learning using Topological Projections in Self-Organizing Maps

1 citations · 3 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CE2026

Evolve on the Host, Predict on the Edge: Deploying Online Neuroevolutionary Architecture Search for Cross-sectional Stock Return Prediction

Jonathan Chang, Zimeng Lyu

Accurate forecasting models are usually large, expensive to update online, and fixed in architecture once trained. We apply ONE-NAS, an online neuroevolutionary architecture search…

cs.NE2026

Forecast Accuracy Is Not Trading Profit: Evolving Small Recurrent Networks for Stock Return Prediction

Jonathan Chang, Zimeng Lyu

Time series forecasting models are typically compared on pointwise error, which scores a prediction in isolation from the decision it is produced for, and a lower forecast error do…

cs.LG2025

Directly Learning Stock Trading Strategies Through Profit Guided Loss Functions

Devroop Kar, Zimeng Lyu, Sheeraja Rajakrishnan +4

Stock trading has always been a challenging task due to the highly volatile nature of the stock market. Making sound trading decisions to generate profit is particularly difficult…

q-fin.PM2024

Neuroevolution Neural Architecture Search for Evolving RNNs in Stock Return Prediction and Portfolio Trading

Zimeng Lyu, Amulya Saxena, Rohaan Nadeem +2

Stock return forecasting is a major component of numerous finance applications. Predicted stock returns can be incorporated into portfolio trading algorithms to make informed buy o…

cs.LG2024

Minimally Supervised Topological Projections of Self-Organizing Maps for Phase of Flight Identification

Zimeng Lyu, Pujan Thapa, Travis Desell

Identifying phases of flight is important in the field of general aviation, as knowing which phase of flight data is collected from aircraft flight data recorders can aid in the mo…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Minimally Supervised Learning using Topological Projections in Self-Organizing Maps

Zimeng Lyu, Alexander Ororbia, Rui Li +1

Parameter prediction is essential for many applications, facilitating insightful interpretation and decision-making. However, in many real life domains, such as power systems, medi…

cs.LG2023

Online Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Multivariate Non-Stationary Time Series Forecasting

Zimeng Lyu, Alexander Ororbia, Travis Desell

Time series forecasting (TSF) is one of the most important tasks in data science given the fact that accurate time series (TS) predictive models play a major role across a wide var…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

ONE-NAS: An Online NeuroEvolution based Neural Architecture Search for Time Series Forecasting

Zimeng Lyu, Travis Desell

Time series forecasting (TSF) is one of the most important tasks in data science, as accurate time series (TS) predictions can drive and advance a wide variety of domains including…

cs.NE2020

Continuous Ant-Based Neural Topology Search

AbdElRahman ElSaid, Joshua Karns, Zimeng Lyu +2

This work introduces a novel, nature-inspired neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm based on ant colony optimization, Continuous Ant-based Neural Topology Search (CANTS), whic…

cs.NE2020

An Experimental Study of Weight Initialization and Weight Inheritance Effects on Neuroevolution

Zimeng Lyu, AbdElRahman ElSaid, Joshua Karns +2

Weight initialization is critical in being able to successfully train artificial neural networks (ANNs), and even more so for recurrent neural networks (RNNs) which can easily suff…

cs.NE2020

Neuroevolutionary Transfer Learning of Deep Recurrent Neural Networks through Network-Aware Adaptation

AbdElRahman ElSaid, Joshua Karns, Alexander Ororbia +3

Transfer learning entails taking an artificial neural network (ANN) that is trained on a source dataset and adapting it to a new target dataset. While this has been shown to be qui…

cs.NE2020★ 1 cited

Improving Neuroevolution Using Island Extinction and Repopulation

Zimeng Lyu, Joshua Karns, AbdElRahman ElSaid +1

Neuroevolution commonly uses speciation strategies to better explore the search space of neural network architectures. One such speciation strategy is through the use of islands, w…