15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  July 21-26 2002     Lyon     France  
   

ECAI-2002 Conference Paper

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Chaotic Time Series Prediction with Neural Networks - Comparison of Several Architectures

Rafal Mikolajczak, Jacek Mandziuk

This paper presents experimental comparison between selected neural architectures for chaotic time series prediction problem. Several feed-forward architectures (Multilayer Perceptrons) are compared with partially recurrent nets (Elman, extended Elman, and Jordan) based on convergence rate, prediction accuracy, training time requirements and stability of results. Results for chaotic logistic map series presented in the paper indicate that prediction accuracy of MLPs with two hidden layers is superior to other tested architectures. Although potential superiority of MLPs needs to be confirmed on other chaotic time series before any general conclusions can be drawn, it is conjectured here that on the contrary to the common beliefs in several cases feed-forward nets may be better suited for short-term prediction task than partially recurrent nets. It is worth noting that significant improvement in prediction accuracy for all tested networks was achieved by rescaling the data from interval(0,1) to (0.2, 0.8). Moreover, it is experimentally shown that with a proper choice of learning parameters all tested architectures produce stable (repeatable) results. Open problems left for future research include verification of the above results on another chaotic time series and on financial or business data.

Keywords: Time Series Prediction, Logistic Map Series, Neural Networks

Citation: Rafal Mikolajczak, Jacek Mandziuk: Chaotic Time Series Prediction with Neural Networks - Comparison of Several Architectures. In F. van Harmelen (ed.): ECAI2002, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2002, pp.493-497.


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ECAI-2002 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Université Claude Bernard and INSA, Lyon, on behalf of Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle.