2024/09/24 by V. Lanzetta, Lanzetta, V.
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computational Finance (q-fin.CP) #Data Stream Mining Techniques #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Economics and business #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Stock Market Forecasting Methods #Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2409.17183
openalex publication_date 2024/09/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Literature highlighted that financial time series data pose significant challenges for accurate stock price prediction, because these data are characterized by noise and susceptibility to news; traditional statistical methodologies made assumptions, such as linearity and normality, which are not suitable for the non-linear nature of financial time series; on the other hand, machine learning methodologies are able to capture non linear relationship in the data. To date, neural network is considered the main machine learning tool for the financial prices prediction. Transfer Learning, as a method aimed at transferring knowledge from source tasks to target tasks, can represent a very useful methodological tool for getting better financial prediction capability. Current reviews on the above body of knowledge are mainly focused on neural network architectures, for financial prediction, with very little emphasis on the transfer learning methodology; thus, this paper is aimed at going deeper on this topic by developing a systematic review with respect to application of Transfer Learning for financial market predictions and to challenges/potential future directions of the transfer learning methodologies for stock market predictions.