The Amazing Efficacy of Cluster-based Feature Selection
Ernie Chan (noreply@blogger.com)
One major impediment to widespread adoption of machine learning (ML) in investment management is their black-box nature: how would you explain to an investor why the machine makes a certain prediction? What's the intuition behind a certain ML trading strategy? How would you explain a major drawdown? This lack of "interpretability" is not just a problem for financial ML, it is a prevalent issue in applying ML to any domain. If you don’t understand the underlying mechanisms of a predictive model,