Bird Swarm Algorithm with Fuzzy Min-Max Neural Network for Financial Crisis Prediction

Abstract

Financial crisis prediction (FCP) models are used for predicting or forecasting the financial status of a company or financial firm. It is considered a challenging issue in the financial sector. Statistical and machine learning (ML) models can be employed for the design of accurate FCP models. Though numerous works have existed in the literature, it is needed to design effective FCP models adaptable to different datasets. This study designs a new bird swarm algorithm (BSA) with fuzzy min-max neural network (FMM-NN) model, named BSA-FMMNN for FCP. The major intention of the BSA-FMMNN model is to determine the financial status of a firm or company. The presented BSA-FMMNN model primarily undergoes min-max normalization to transform the data into uniformity range. Besides, k-medoid clustering approach is employed for the outlier removal process. Finally, the classification process is carried out using the FMMNN model, and the parameters involved in it are tuned by the use of BSA. The utilization of proficient parameter selection process using BSA demonstrate the novelty of the study. The experimental result analysis of the BSA-FMMNN model is validated using benchmark dataset and the comparative outcomes highlighted the supremacy of the BSA-FMMNN model over the recent approaches.