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SeNA: A Hierarchical Self-Evolving Neural Architecture for Stock Forecasting

Authors: Md Minnatullah;

SeNA: A Hierarchical Self-Evolving Neural Architecture for Stock Forecasting

Abstract

This paper introduces SeNA (Self-Evolving Neural Architecture), a hierarchical 3-stage knowledge-distillation framework combining a Transformer teacher, an LSTM parent, and an MLP student with meta-evolution cycles. Unlike traditional hybrid models, SeNA adapts its internal MLP kernel weights through loss-conditioned meta-updates, enabling fast learning and robust generalization. We evaluate SeNA on 15 years of historical stock market data across AAPL, TSLA, META, MSFT, and NVDA using a strict 100-day fully leak-free holdout. No future information, no overlapping windows, no normalization leakage is allowed in the pipeline. SeNA achieves strong performance across all tickers, reaching: - AAPL: R² = 0.964, Directional Accuracy = 67%- TSLA: R² = 0.936, Directional Accuracy = 63%- META: R² = 0.827, Directional Accuracy = 61%- MSFT: R² = 0.796, Directional Accuracy = 56%- NVDA: R² = 0.831, Directional Accuracy = 54% These results exceed typical publicly reported benchmarks for OHLC-only, long-horizon blind forecasting models. The combination of cross-architecture distillation and meta-learning provides stability, low latency (under 12 minutes training), and real-world usability. This work establishes SeNA as a promising foundation for practical forecasting, lightweight financial AI, and future research into self-evolving architectures.

Keywords

Machine Learning, FINANCE, Stock Forecasting, Artificial Intelligence, Meta-Learning, Time Series Prediction, Neural Architecture, Time Series, Knowledge Distillation

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