Work place: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, 147002, India
E-mail: madanlal@pbi.ac.in
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Research Interests: Image Processing
Biography
Dr. Madan Lal is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Punjabi University Campus, Patiala. He has received a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and obtained M.Tech. and PhD Degrees in Computer Engineering from Punjabi University, Patiala. His experience of 25 years in teaching and of 18 years in research has benefitted his students apparently. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed international and national journals, seminars, and conferences. His research interests are in the fields of Digital Image Processing, Image Processing in healthcare, Machine Learning, and its applications. He has guided more than twenty post graduate research scholars and currently six PhD research scholars are working under his supervision.
By Priya Sidhu Himanshu Aggarwal Madan Lal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2026.04.02, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2026
Stock market forecasting is not an easy task to undertake because of the volatility and the price movements which are non-stationary. In this work, the authors propose a hybrid deep learning architecture that combines the use of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)-based feature extraction with multi-architecture aggregation with LSTM, GRU, RNN, and CNN models. The model was tested on six Indian stocks based on ten-years of daily historical returns under a rolling walk-forward validation procedure, with the model being trained on a five-year window and tested on out-of-sample periods. It has been shown experimentally that the hybrid aggregation method gives smaller prediction errors than individual architectures. Using the proposed model on the NIFTY 50 index, the RMSE was 0.2102, and the directional accuracy was 65.18%, indicating improved predictive stability compared to baseline models. An ablation analysis also supports the fact that wavelet-based pre-processing helps to reduce errors and increase consistency of trends. These results indicate that wavelet-based feature extraction with heterogeneous deep learning models can be more robust when used in daily stock forecasting. In future work, statistical significance tests and cost-based trading simulations may be incorporated to further assess practical relevance.
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