Feature Selection with Optimal Variational Auto Encoder for Financial Crisis Prediction

Financial crisis prediction(FCP)received significant attention in the financial sector for decision-making.Proper forecasting of the number of firms possible to fail is important to determine the growth index and strength of a nation’s economy.Conventionally,numerous approaches have been developed in the design of accurate FCP processes.At the same time,classifier efficacy and predictive accuracy are inadequate for real-time applications.In addition,several established techniques carry out well to any of the specific datasets but are not adjustable to distinct datasets.Thus,there is a necessity for developing an effectual prediction technique for optimum classifier performance and adjustable to various datasets.This paper presents a novel multi-vs.optimization(MVO)based feature selection(FS)with an optimal variational auto encoder(OVAE)model for FCP.The proposed multi-vs.optimization based feature selection with optimal variational auto encoder(MVOFS-OVAE)model mainly aims to accomplish forecasting the financial crisis.For achieving this,the proposed MVOFS-OVAE model primarily pre-processes the financial data using min-max normalization.In addition,the MVOFS-OVAE model designs a feature subset selection process using the MVOFS approach.Followed by,the variational auto encoder(VAE)model is applied for the categorization of financial data into financial crisis or non-financial crisis.Finally,the differential evolution(DE)algorithm is utilized for the parameter tuning of the VAE model.A series of simulations on the benchmark dataset reported the betterment of the MVOFS-OVAE approach over the recent state of art approaches.

Optimized Stacked Autoencoder for IoT Enabled Financial Crisis Prediction Model

Recently,Financial Technology(FinTech)has received more attention among financial sectors and researchers to derive effective solutions for any financial institution or firm.Financial crisis prediction(FCP)is an essential topic in business sector that finds it useful to identify the financial condition of a financial institution.At the same time,the development of the internet of things(IoT)has altered the mode of human interaction with the physical world.The IoT can be combined with the FCP model to examine the financial data from the users and perform decision making process.This paper presents a novel multi-objective squirrel search optimization algorithm with stacked autoencoder(MOSSA-SAE)model for FCP in IoT environment.The MOSSA-SAE model encompasses different subprocesses namely preprocessing,class imbalance handling,parameter tuning,and classification.Primarily,the MOSSA-SAE model allows the IoT devices such as smartphones,laptops,etc.,to collect the financial details of the users which are then transmitted to the cloud for further analysis.In addition,SMOTE technique is employed to handle class imbalance problems.The goal of MOSSA in SMOTE is to determine the oversampling rate and area of nearest neighbors of SMOTE.Besides,SAE model is utilized as a classification technique to determine the class label of the financial data.At the same time,the MOSSA is applied to appropriately select the‘weights’and‘bias’values of the SAE.An extensive experimental validation process is performed on the benchmark financial dataset and the results are examined under distinct aspects.The experimental values ensured the superior performance of the MOSSA-SAE model on the applied dataset.

Artificial Intelligence Based Optimal Functional Link Neural Network for Financial Data Science

In present digital era,data science techniques exploit artificial intelligence(AI)techniques who start and run small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs)to have an impact and develop their businesses.Data science integrates the conventions of econometrics with the technological elements of data science.It make use of machine learning(ML),predictive and prescriptive analytics to effectively understand financial data and solve related problems.Smart technologies for SMEs enable allows the firm to get smarter with their processes and offers efficient operations.At the same time,it is needed to develop an effective tool which can assist small to medium sized enterprises to forecast business failure as well as financial crisis.AI becomes a familiar tool for several businesses due to the fact that it concentrates on the design of intelligent decision making tools to solve particular real time problems.With this motivation,this paper presents a new AI based optimal functional link neural network(FLNN)based financial crisis prediction(FCP)model forSMEs.The proposed model involves preprocessing,feature selection,classification,and parameter tuning.At the initial stage,the financial data of the enterprises are collected and are preprocessed to enhance the quality of the data.Besides,a novel chaotic grasshopper optimization algorithm(CGOA)based feature selection technique is applied for the optimal selection of features.Moreover,functional link neural network(FLNN)model is employed for the classification of the feature reduced data.Finally,the efficiency of theFLNNmodel can be improvised by the use of cat swarm optimizer(CSO)algorithm.A detailed experimental validation process takes place on Polish dataset to ensure the performance of the presented model.The experimental studies demonstrated that the CGOA-FLNN-CSO model has accomplished maximum prediction accuracy of 98.830%,92.100%,and 95.220%on the applied Polish dataset Year I-III respectively.

Intelligent Feature Selection with Deep Learning Based Financial Risk Assessment Model

Due to global financial crisis,risk management has received significant attention to avoid loss and maximize profit in any business.Since the financial crisis prediction(FCP)process is mainly based on data driven decision making and intelligent models,artificial intelligence(AI)and machine learning(ML)models are widely utilized.This article introduces an intelligent feature selection with deep learning based financial risk assessment model(IFSDL-FRA).The proposed IFSDL-FRA technique aims to determine the financial crisis of a company or enterprise.In addition,the IFSDL-FRA technique involves the design of new water strider optimization algorithm based feature selection(WSOA-FS)manner to an optimum selection of feature subsets.Moreover,Deep Random Vector Functional Link network(DRVFLN)classification technique was applied to properly allot the class labels to the financial data.Furthermore,improved fruit fly optimization algorithm(IFFOA)based hyperparameter tuning process is carried out to optimally tune the hyperparameters of the DRVFLN model.For enhancing the better performance of the IFSDL-FRA technique,an extensive set of simulations are implemented on benchmark financial datasets and the obtained outcomes determine the betterment of IFSDL-FRA technique on the recent state of art approaches.