WaVeFuse: Regime-Adaptive Equity Index Forecasting via Channel-Wise Wavelet Denoising and Vertical Attention Fusion

Aashish Bohra and Vivek Vijay

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Abstract: Hybrid Deep Learning for equity index forecasting is limited by three problems: propagation of OHLCV noise into derived technical indicators (TIs), channel-indiscriminate multi-scale decomposition that conflates heterogeneous frequency signatures, and static multi-branch fusion that cannot adapt to market regime shifts. WaVeFuse addresses these limitations through a unified dual-branch architecture. Symlet-4 wavelet denoising (level 2, MAD soft threshold) suppresses microstructure noise in OHLCV. Seven low-lag TIs computed from denoised prices are encoded by a causal channel-wise continuous wavelet transform (Morlet, 32 scales) into a per-timestep scale-space matrix. A CNN-BiLSTM branch captures temporal dynamics, while a dual-layer Transformer (heads=4, dk in {16, 32}) models inter-scale spectral dependencies, and their representations are integrated by a 2-token softmax gate Vertical Attention Fusion (VAF) that dynamically reweights branches as market regimes shift. Evaluated under walk-forward validation (WFV) on KOSPI, DAX, NYSE Composite, and Russell 2000 (2010-2023), WaVeFuse achieves R2 = 0.81-0.96 and directional accuracy 70.5-78.3%. It outperforms seven state-of-the-art models by 8.9-20.2% MAE across twelve dataset-period configurations. Diebold-Mariano statistics (4.62-10.38, p

Date: 2026-09
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