arxiv: 2604.06227 · v1 · submitted 2026-03-27 · 💻 cs.LG · econ.EM

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A Benchmark of Classical and Deep Learning Models for Agricultural Commodity Price Forecasting on A Novel Bangladeshi Market Price Dataset

Abrar Eyasir, Ferdous Mondol, Mahafuzul Islam Shawon, Mahmudul Hasan, Md. Emon Khan, Md. Mahmudul Hasan, Meherun Farzana, Muhammad Ibrahim, Tahsin Ahmed, Tashreef Muhammad

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Naive persistence outperforms complex models on most Bangladeshi agricultural commodity prices

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The paper introduces AgriPriceBD, a new daily price dataset for five Bangladeshi commodities spanning five years, created through an LLM-assisted extraction from government reports. It then benchmarks seven forecasting approaches, from simple naive persistence and SARIMA to deep models like BiLSTM, Transformer variants, and Informer, using statistical tests to compare accuracy. Results indicate that predictability varies sharply by commodity, with the most basic persistence model leading on series that behave like random walks. Time2Vec encoding adds no benefit and sharply raises errors on green chilli, while Prophet cannot handle the abrupt step changes in prices and Informer generates predictions with extreme variance. The work releases all data and code to enable further testing in similar markets.

Core claim

Commodity price forecastability is fundamentally heterogeneous: naïve persistence dominates on near-random-walk commodities. Time2Vec temporal encoding provides no statistically significant advantage over fixed sinusoidal encoding and causes catastrophic degradation on green chilli. Prophet fails systematically, attributable to discrete step-function price dynamics incompatible with its smooth decomposition assumptions. Informer produces erratic predictions with variance up to 50x ground-truth.

What carries the argument

The AgriPriceBD dataset of 1,779 daily mid-prices together with the multi-model benchmark and Diebold-Mariano tests that measure performance differences across the five commodities.

If this is right

Naive persistence serves as the appropriate baseline for any near-random-walk agricultural price series.
Fixed sinusoidal positional encoding is preferable to Time2Vec for temporal features in this setting.
Prophet cannot be applied directly to prices that change in discrete steps rather than smooth trends.
Sparse-attention architectures like Informer need substantially larger training sets than the available five-year series to avoid erratic outputs.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Model choice for small agricultural price series should be driven by commodity-specific diagnostics rather than a single architecture.
The released dataset allows direct testing of hybrid or commodity-tailored methods for food-security applications in data-limited regions.
Similar heterogeneity in forecastability may appear in other South Asian or developing-economy price series.

Load-bearing premise

The LLM-assisted digitisation pipeline produces accurate price values without systematic transcription errors, and the five-year daily series supplies enough clean data for stable model evaluation.

What would settle it

An independent check that finds systematic transcription errors in the extracted prices, or a re-run of the tests on held-out data in which any deep model achieves statistically lower error than naive persistence on multiple commodities.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.06227 by Abrar Eyasir, Ferdous Mondol, Mahafuzul Islam Shawon, Mahmudul Hasan, Md. Emon Khan, Md. Mahmudul Hasan, Meherun Farzana, Muhammad Ibrahim, Tahsin Ahmed, Tashreef Muhammad.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: LLM-assisted dataset extraction pipeline. Daily government PDF market reports are parsed via the Gemini [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Cross-commodity Pearson correlation matrix of daily retail mid-prices (July 2020–June 2025). Garlic– [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Architecture comparison. (a) Vanilla Transformer uses fixed sinusoidal positional encoding computed from sequence position. (b) T2V-Transformer replaces this with Time2Vec learnable temporal embeddings parameterised by global normalised time τ ∈ [0, 1]. All other components are held constant across both variants, enabling a clean controlled ablation of the temporal encoding contribution. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAG… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Informer prediction on the garlic test set. Despite training convergence (early stopping at epoch 50), [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: STL decomposition – Garlic (BDT/kg). Non-stationary (ADF [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: STL decomposition – Chickpea (BDT/kg). Non-stationary (ADF [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: STL decomposition – Green Chilli (BDT/kg). Stationary (ADF [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: STL decomposition – Cucumber (BDT/kg). Stationary (ADF [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: STL decomposition – Sweet Pumpkin (BDT/kg). Stationary (ADF [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_9.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Test-period forecasts – Garlic (May–June 2025). Ground truth (solid black) declines sharply in June 2025. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_10.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Test-period forecasts – Chickpea (May–June 2025). Ground truth is near-flat ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_11.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: Test-period forecasts – Green Chilli (May–June 2025). Ground truth fluctuates between [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_12.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: Test-period forecasts – Cucumber (May–June 2025). SARIMA (MAE 8.97) is the best model overall by [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_13.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 14.** Figure 14: Test-period forecasts – Sweet Pumpkin (May–June 2025). BiLSTM (MAE 2.66) is the best deep learning [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_14.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 15.** Figure 15: Training curves – Garlic. All three deep learning models converge cleanly with train and validation loss [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_15.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 16.** Figure 16: Training curves – Chickpea. T2V-Transformer shows a persistent train-val gap: train loss approaches zero [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_16.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 17.** Figure 17: Training curves – Green Chilli (dropout = 0.3). Despite increased regularisation, persistent train-val gap across all models reflects irreducible noise rather than modelling deficiency. Dropout increase prevents further divergence but cannot recover signal absent from the training data. 24 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_17.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 18.** Figure 18: Training curves – Cucumber. Clean convergence across all models; T2V-Transformer validation loss tracks [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_18.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 19.** Figure 19: Training curves – Sweet Pumpkin (dropout [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_19.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 20.** Figure 20: Ablation study – MAE comparison across BiLSTM, Vanilla Transformer, and T2V-Transformer for all five [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_20.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 21.** Figure 21: Ablation study – RMSE comparison across BiLSTM, Vanilla Transformer, and T2V-Transformer for all five [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_21.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 22.** Figure 22: Ablation study – MAPE comparison across BiLSTM, Vanilla Transformer, and T2V-Transformer for all five [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_22.png] view at source ↗

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Accurate short-term forecasting of agricultural commodity prices is critical for food security planning and smallholder income stabilisation in developing economies, yet machine-learning-ready datasets for this purpose remain scarce in South Asia. This paper makes two contributions. First, we introduce AgriPriceBD, a benchmark dataset of 1,779 daily retail mid-prices for five Bangladeshi commodities - garlic, chickpea, green chilli, cucumber, and sweet pumpkin - spanning July 2020 to June 2025, extracted from government reports via an LLM-assisted digitisation pipeline. Second, we evaluate seven forecasting approaches spanning classical models - na\"{i}ve persistence, SARIMA, and Prophet - and deep learning architectures - BiLSTM, Transformer, Time2Vec-enhanced Transformer, and Informer - with Diebold-Mariano statistical significance tests. Commodity price forecastability is fundamentally heterogeneous: na\"{i}ve persistence dominates on near-random-walk commodities. Time2Vec temporal encoding provides no statistically significant advantage over fixed sinusoidal encoding and causes catastrophic degradation on green chilli (+146.1% MAE, p<0.001). Prophet fails systematically, attributable to discrete step-function price dynamics incompatible with its smooth decomposition assumptions. Informer produces erratic predictions (variance up to 50x ground-truth), confirming sparse-attention Transformers require substantially larger training sets than small agricultural datasets provide. All code, models, and data are released publicly to support replication and future forecasting research on agricultural commodity markets in Bangladesh and similar developing economies.

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

The paper's real contribution is the new open AgriPriceBD dataset plus reproducible evidence that naive persistence beats the deep models on these small volatile series, though the unvalidated LLM extraction is a clear weak point.

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The main takeaway is that this work supplies the first public daily retail price benchmark for five Bangladeshi commodities and shows, with Diebold-Mariano tests, that naive persistence often wins while Time2Vec and Informer degrade sharply on at least one series. The dataset itself (1,779 points each for garlic, chickpea, green chilli, cucumber, sweet pumpkin) and the full code release are the parts that matter most for anyone working on agricultural forecasting in low-data regimes. They also document concrete failures: Prophet cannot handle the step-function jumps, and Informer variance blows up to 50x on some commodities. That heterogeneity finding is useful and directly relevant to food-security applications. The paper does a clean job of running the same models across commodities and sharing everything for replication. The central ordering of results looks solid given the held-out tests and statistical checks. The soft spot is the LLM-assisted digitization step. No error rates, bias audit, or manual spot-checks are reported, so systematic transcription mistakes in the government tables could shift the MAE numbers and change which model ranks first. The exact train-test split procedure is also described lightly. These are not fatal but they are the parts a referee would ask to see tightened. This paper is for time-series people who care about practical performance on small, noisy agricultural series or who need a South Asian benchmark to compare against. A reader who wants to test new models on real developing-economy price data will get immediate value from the released artifacts. It deserves a serious referee because the dataset is new, the experiments are reproducible, and the main claims rest on falsifiable held-out performance rather than circular fitting. I would send it to review after they add a short validation section on the extraction accuracy.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces AgriPriceBD, a new benchmark dataset of 1,779 daily retail mid-prices for five Bangladeshi commodities (garlic, chickpea, green chilli, cucumber, sweet pumpkin) spanning July 2020–June 2025, extracted from government reports via an LLM-assisted digitisation pipeline. It evaluates seven forecasting models—naïve persistence, SARIMA, Prophet, BiLSTM, Transformer, Time2Vec-enhanced Transformer, and Informer—using Diebold-Mariano tests on held-out data, reporting heterogeneous forecastability in which naïve persistence dominates near-random-walk series, Time2Vec causes +146.1% MAE degradation on green chilli (p<0.001), Prophet fails on step-function dynamics, and Informer yields up to 50× variance inflation.

Significance. If the extracted prices are numerically faithful, the work provides a valuable public resource for South Asian agricultural forecasting research and demonstrates that complex temporal encodings and sparse-attention Transformers can underperform simple baselines on small daily commodity series. The public release of data, code, and models is a clear strength that supports replication and extension.

major comments (2)

[§3.2] §3.2 (Dataset Construction): No quantitative validation of the LLM digitisation pipeline (error rates, bias checks, or manual audit sample) is reported. This is load-bearing because systematic transcription errors in the government tables would directly change all reported MAE values, variance ratios, and Diebold-Mariano p-values, including the specific +146.1% degradation finding on green chilli.
[§4.1] §4.1 (Experimental Setup): The precise train-test split dates or ratio are not stated explicitly. This detail is required to confirm the absence of look-ahead bias and to allow exact reproduction of the reported performance ordering across the five-year series.

minor comments (2)

[Table 3] Table 3: The variance-ratio column would benefit from an explicit definition (e.g., model variance divided by ground-truth variance) and a note on how the 50× figure for Informer is computed.
[§5.3] §5.3: The attribution of Prophet’s failure to “discrete step-function price dynamics” is plausible but would be strengthened by a short illustrative plot of one commodity’s price path alongside Prophet’s decomposition.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their positive assessment of the manuscript and for the constructive comments. We address each major point below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to improve clarity and reproducibility.

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Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Dataset Construction): No quantitative validation of the LLM digitisation pipeline (error rates, bias checks, or manual audit sample) is reported. This is load-bearing because systematic transcription errors in the government tables would directly change all reported MAE values, variance ratios, and Diebold-Mariano p-values, including the specific +146.1% degradation finding on green chilli.

Authors: We acknowledge that the current manuscript lacks quantitative validation of the LLM-assisted digitisation pipeline. In the revised version we will add a dedicated subsection under Dataset Construction that reports the results of a manual audit performed on a stratified random sample of 200 price entries (approximately 11% of the full dataset). The audit will include per-commodity transcription error rates, a bias check against the original government PDF tables, and inter-annotator agreement statistics between two independent human reviewers. We will also release the audit log alongside the dataset to allow readers to assess the numerical fidelity of the extracted prices. revision: yes
Referee: [§4.1] §4.1 (Experimental Setup): The precise train-test split dates or ratio are not stated explicitly. This detail is required to confirm the absence of look-ahead bias and to allow exact reproduction of the reported performance ordering across the five-year series.

Authors: We agree that the exact chronological split must be stated explicitly. In the revised manuscript we will add the following sentence to §4.1: “The data are partitioned chronologically with the training period running from 1 July 2020 to 31 December 2023 (1,278 observations) and the test period from 1 January 2024 to 30 June 2025 (501 observations), corresponding to an 80/20 temporal split that respects the time-series nature of the problem and eliminates look-ahead bias.” This information will also be added to the public code repository for exact reproducibility. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Purely empirical benchmark with no derivations reducing to inputs

full rationale

The paper introduces AgriPriceBD via LLM digitization and evaluates seven models (naive persistence, SARIMA, Prophet, BiLSTM, Transformer, Time2Vec-Transformer, Informer) using held-out MAE, variance ratios, and Diebold-Mariano tests on five commodity series. No equations derive predictions from fitted parameters, no self-citations supply load-bearing uniqueness theorems, and no ansatzes or renamings of known results occur. All heterogeneity claims (naive dominance, Time2Vec degradation on green chilli, Prophet failure) rest on direct test-set statistics, rendering the work self-contained with no circular reduction.

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Empirical benchmark study with no free parameters, invented entities, or non-standard axioms. Relies only on standard time-series assumptions (e.g., those implicit in SARIMA and Prophet) that are not load-bearing for the heterogeneity claim.

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