A hybrid transfer learning model for crude oil price forecasting

Most of the existing models for oil price forecasting only use the data in the forecasted time series. This study proposes a hybrid transfer learning model (HTLM) for crude oil price forecasting. We first selectively transfer some related time series in the source domain to assist in modeling the target time series by using a transfer learning technique, and then construct the forecasting model using the analog complexing (AC) method. Further, we introduce a genetic algorithm to find the optimal match between two important parameters in HTLM. Finally, we use two main crude oil price time series the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and the Brent crude oil spot prices for empirical analysis. Our results show the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed model compared with existing models.