2004 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Saliency Analysis of Support Vector Machines for Feature Selection in Financial Time Series Forecasting
Authors : Lijuan Cao, Francis E. H. Tay
Published in: Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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This chapter deals with the application of saliency analysis to Support. Vector Machines (SVMs) for feature selection. The importance of feature is ranked by evaluating the sensitivity of the network output to the feature input in terms of the partial derivative. A systematic approach to remove irrelevant features based on the sensitivity is developed. Two simulated non-linear time series and five real financial time series are examined in the experiment. The simulation results show that that saliency analysis is effective in SVMs for identifying important features.