arXiv Machine Learning By Sichao He, Yansong Zhang

Heads, Not Backbones: Output Heads Dominate Architectures on Fat-Tailed Returns

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arXiv:2606. 30037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a deep forecasting pipeline for fat-tailed financial returns at short horizons, which matters more - the backbone architecture or the output head?

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