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Comparison of neural network models for prediction cryptocurrency price volatility in trading pairs

2025 · AI@DTESI · 0 citations · 29 references
Computer Science

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A comparative evaluation of five state-of-the-art machine learning models, such as Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT), Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN), XGBoost, Random Forest, and a CNN-LSTM hybrid, for forecasting cryptocurrency price volatility across major trading pairs shows that TFT achieves the lowest test loss and highest classification accuracy, outperforming other architectures.

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