Advancing Time Series Forecasting with Large Language Models: Innovations and Applications
A special issue of Forecasting (ISSN 2571-9394). This special issue belongs to the section "Forecasting in Computer Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 August 2026 | Viewed by 94
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Interests: AF financial markets; empirical finance; bond market; commodities; real estate; asset pricing; portfolio choice; ECON econometrics; financial econometrics; forecasting
Interests: volatility forecasting; interest rates; econometrics of graphs and networks; derivatives; dynamic portfolio choice; risk management
Interests: AI; machine learning; deep learning; service computing—cloud/edge/ IoT; business intelligence; information systems; decision support systems; computational complexity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last decade, remarkable progress has been made in large language models (LLMs), demonstrating their exceptional accuracy in performing complex natural language tasks. Recent advances have shown that pre-trained LLMs can be exploited to capture complex dependencies in time series data and facilitate various applications, including forecasting. The flexibility of LLMs, stemming from the diverse models available and the various ways in which they can be configured for time series analysis, makes them highly adaptable to a wide range of domain-specific applications, particularly in fields such as economics and finance.
This Special Issue welcomes high-quality papers that introduce novel forecasting applications of LLMs in economics and finance or present new methodological advancements.
This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Forecasting asset returns and volatilities with LLMs;
- Tail risk forecasting with LLMs;
- Forecasting economics with LLMs;
- Forecasting business cycles with LLMs;
- Forecasting economics with LLMs;
- Detecting regimes with LLMs.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Manuela Pedio
Prof. Dr. Massimo Guidolin
Dr. Walayat Hussain
Prof. Dr. Kaijian He
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- large language models
- time series forecasting
- asset returns and volatilities
- economic forecasting
- business cycles and regimes
- tail risk
- non-linear time-series models
- forecasting methods
- artificial intelligence applications
- dynamic portfolio choice
- empirical option pricing
- asset pricing
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