Predicting the Price of Bitcoin Using Machine Learning

McNally, Sean, Roche, Jason and Caton, Simon (2018) Predicting the Price of Bitcoin Using Machine Learning. In: 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP) 2018. IEEE, pp. 339-343. ISBN 9781538649756

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to ascertain with what accuracy the direction of Bitcoin price in USD can be predicted. The price data is sourced from the Bitcoin Price Index. The task is achieved with varying degrees of success through the implementation of a Bayesian optimised recurrent neural network (RNN) and a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network. The LSTM achieves the highest classification accuracy of 52% and a RMSE of 8%. The popular ARIMA model for time series forecasting is implemented as a comparison to the deep learning models. As expected, the non-linear deep learning methods outperform the ARIMA forecast which performs poorly. Finally, both deep learning models are benchmarked on both a GPU and a CPU with the training time on the GPU outperforming the CPU implementation by 67.7%.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > Computer software T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Computer software
Divisions:	School of Computing > Staff Research and Publications
Depositing User:	Caoimhe Ní Mhaicín
Date Deposited:	18 Jun 2018 10:42
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2018 12:20
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/3020

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