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Seasonal adjustment with 'bad' neural networks: a case of benign underfitting

Curry, Bruce and Morgan, Peter Huw ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8555-3493 2010. Seasonal adjustment with 'bad' neural networks: a case of benign underfitting. International Journal of Applied Management Science 2 (4) , pp. 335-350. 10.1504/IJAMS.2010.036590

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Abstract

This paper is a response to reports by a number of authors of difficulties in using feedforward neural networks (NNs) in the presence of seasonality. Such difficulties appear to contradict the well-known property of 'universal approximation', but arise in fact because the property only applies to suitably smooth functions. We report on what is an unexpected benefit of this limitation of NNs: although the network is unable to follow seasonal movements it can identify an underlying trend, through being forced to steer a middle course. We achieve such deseasonalisation through network pruning, which restricts the approximation capacity of the network by depriving it of connections. Although pruning is in general motivated by the search for the most parsimonious network, in our particular context it forces the network to ignore both seasonal movements and noise.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Business (Including Economics)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Uncontrolled Keywords: Neural networks ; Seasonality ; Optimisation ; Differential evolution ; Penalty function ; Network pruning
Publisher: Inderscience
ISSN: 1755-8913
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2022 10:02
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/23010

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