A Hybrid Model for Copper Futures Price Forecasting Utilizing Complexity-Aware Variational Mode Decomposition and Reconstruction and Multi-Behavior-Triggered Interaction Modeling

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Authors: Yan Li, Dezhi Liu
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Abstract

Accurate forecasting of copper futures prices is crucial for risk management and investment decisions. However, existing approaches primarily rely on historical prices and incorporate behavioral signals without a unified modeling framework. To address this limitation, we propose MBTI-Net (Multi-source Behavior-Triggered Interaction Network), a behavior-aware forecasting framework for heterogeneous copper market data. We first construct a compact behavioral factor from Baidu search indices via a multi-view projection strategy that preserves structural and predictive information. We then develop a complexity-aware reconstruction mechanism that aggregates intrinsic mode functions into multi-frequency components based on fuzzy entropy and energy. To accommodate distributional and volatility differences between behavioral and market variables, we introduce VB-ReVIN (Volatility- and Behavior-aware Reversible Instance Normalization). Building upon these representations, MBTI-Net models dynamic multi-source interactions triggered by behavioral intensity and market conditions, enabling adaptive cross-source information fusion. Experiments on LME and SHFE copper futures datasets demonstrate consistent improvements over state-of-the-art benchmarks, highlighting the importance of explicitly modeling behavior-driven dependencies in financial forecasting.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Stock Market Forecasting Methods Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Forecasting Techniques and Applications

Publication details

Journal / source
Entropy
Volume
28
Issue
3
Pages
320–320
Publication date
12 March 2026
Language
EN