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Introducing EA-LSTM: Evolutionary Attention-based LSTM for Time Series Prediction for after-work quants

Li, Zhu, Kong, Han and Zhao (2018; arXiv:1811.03760) put an evolutionary attention layer in front of an LSTM. Attention weights over the look-back window are evolved with competitive random search (genetic-style select/recombine/mutate), not backprop, to avoid local traps. Beijing PM2.5, SML2010, MSR Action3D. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

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Introducing Informer: Beyond Efficient Transformer for Long Sequence Time-Series Forecasting for after-work quants

Zhou, Zhang, Peng, Zhang, Li, Xiong and Zhang (AAAI 2021; arXiv:2012.07436) fix three Transformer LSTF bottlenecks: quadratic attention (ProbSparse O(L log L)), stacked-layer memory (self-attention distilling), and slow step-by-step decode (one-shot generative decoder). ETT oil temperature, ECL, Weather. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

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Introducing FEDformer: Frequency Enhanced Decomposed Transformer for Long-term Series Forecasting for after-work quants

Zhou, Ma, Wen, Wang, Sun and Jin (Alibaba, ICML 2022; arXiv:2201.12740) mix seasonal-trend decomposition with frequency-domain Transformer blocks. Randomly keep a fixed number of Fourier (or Wavelet) modes so attention is linear in length. vs Autoformer: about 14.8% / 22.6% lower MSE on multivariate / univariate LTSF. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

pythonpapertime-serieslstmattentionafter-work

Introducing EA-LSTM: Evolutionary Attention-based LSTM for Time Series Prediction for after-work quants

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Introducing Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series for after-work quants

Ansari, Stella, Turkmen et al. (AWS AI Labs, 2024; arXiv:2403.07815) treat forecasting as language modeling: mean-scale, uniform bins (~4096), T5 20M–710M, cross-entropy. Pretrain on public + TSMixup + KernelSynth GPs. Strong in-domain and competitive zero-shot on 42 datasets. Code: amazon-science/chronos-forecasting. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

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Introducing DeepAR: Probabilistic Forecasting with Autoregressive Recurrent Networks for after-work quants

Salinas, Flunkert and Gasthaus (Amazon, 2017; IJF 2020; arXiv:1704.04110) train one autoregressive LSTM on thousands of related series. The net emits likelihood parameters (Gaussian or negative binomial); ancestral sampling yields joint predictive paths and consistent quantiles. Scale handling + velocity-weighted sampling for power-law magnitudes. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

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Introducing Financial Time Series Forecasting using CNN and Transformer for after-work quants

Zeng, Kaur, Siddagangappa, Rahimi, Balch and Veloso (J.P. Morgan AI Research, 2023; arXiv:2304.04912) propose CTTS: min-max scale, 1D CNN (k=16, stride 8) tokens, 4-layer Transformer, MLP softmax over up/down/flat. 1-min S&P 500 2019; 80 steps → sign at 81. 2-class 56.7% vs DeepAR 51.1%. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

pythonpapertime-seriesautoformertransformerafter-work

Introducing Autoformer: Decomposition Transformers with Auto-Correlation for Long-Term Series Forecasting for after-work quants

Wu, Xu, Wang and Long (NeurIPS 2021) put moving-average decomposition inside the Transformer and replace point-wise attention with FFT Auto-Correlation (O(L log L)). ~38% average MSE drop vs Informer/LogTrans on energy, traffic, FX, weather, ILI. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

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Introducing Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting? (DLinear / LTSF-Linear) for after-work quants

Zeng, Chen, Zhang and Xu (2022) ask whether Transformers help long-term time-series forecasting. One-layer LTSF-Linear (DLinear / NLinear) beats Informer, Autoformer, FEDformer on nine benchmarks, often by 20–50% MSE. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

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Introducing Practical Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Stock Trading for after-work quants

Liu, Xiong, Zhong, Yang and Walid (2018) train DDPG on DJIA 30 daily prices (2009–2018). State is prices, holdings, cash. Beats min-variance and DJIA on 2016–2018 Sharpe in-sample-style test. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

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Introducing A Time Series is Worth 64 Words: Long-term Forecasting with Transformers (PatchTST) for after-work quants

Nie, Nguyen, Sinthong and Kalagnanam (2022) treat each univariate channel as patches (ViT-style) sharing one Transformer. Beats FEDformer/Autoformer/Informer and often DLinear on ETT/Traffic/Electricity/Weather. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

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Introducing Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Predictions and Control for Limit Order Books for after-work quants

Wei, Wang, Mangu and Decker (2019) train a CNN autoencoder, RNN-MDN transition and reward head on HKEX LOB+prints, then PG/A2C/Double DQN entirely inside the world model. Policy transfers back to replay. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.

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