Financial Time Series Data Augmentation with Generative Adversarial Networks and Extended Intertemporal Return Plots

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08924v2
• Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 07:26:12 GMT
• Title: Financial Time Series Data Augmentation with Generative Adversarial Networks and Extended Intertemporal Return Plots
• Authors: Justin Hellermann, Qinzhuan Qian, Ankit Shah
• Abstract summary: We apply state-of-the art image-based generative models for the task of data augmentation. We introduce the extended intertemporal return plot (XIRP), a new image representation for time series. Our approach proves to be effective in reducing the return forecast error by 7% on 79% of the financial data sets.
• Score: 2.365537081046599
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Data augmentation is a key regularization method to support the forecast and classification performance of highly parameterized models in computer vision. In the time series domain however, regularization in terms of augmentation is not equally common even though these methods have proven to mitigate effects from small sample size or non-stationarity. In this paper we apply state-of-the art image-based generative models for the task of data augmentation and introduce the extended intertemporal return plot (XIRP), a new image representation for time series. Multiple tests are conducted to assess the quality of the augmentation technique regarding its ability to synthesize time series effectively and improve forecast results on a subset of the M4 competition. We further investigate the relationship between data set characteristics and sampling results via Shapley values for feature attribution on the performance metrics and the optimal ratio of augmented data. Over all data sets, our approach proves to be effective in reducing the return forecast error by 7% on 79% of the financial data sets with varying statistical properties and frequencies.

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