The Research Department of Economics and Management of Tadbir Nikan Business, Marketing, and Finance Open 3092-6238 In Press 2027 08 01 Design and Evaluation of an Advanced Attention-Based Deep Learning Framework for Accurate, Robust, and Interpretable Forecasting of Global Gold Prices with a Focus on the Iranian Market Design and Evaluation of an Advanced Attention-Based Deep Learning Framework for Accurate, Robust, and Interpretable Forecasting of Global Gold Prices with a Focus on the Iranian Market 1 21 EN Journal Article 2026 06 16 <p> This study aimed to design and evaluate an advanced Temporal Fusion Transformer-based deep learning framework for accurate, robust, probabilistic, multi-horizon, and interpretable forecasting of global gold prices with particular relevance to the Iranian market. A quantitative time-series forecasting design was applied to daily gold-market data covering January 19, 2014, to January 22, 2024. The dataset included Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume observations and was divided chronologically into training, validation, and test subsets. The proposed Temporal Fusion Transformer integrated recurrent temporal processing, variable selection networks, gated residual networks, bidirectional LSTM encoding, interpretable multi-head attention, and quantile regression. Forecasts were generated across multiple horizons and evaluated using RMSE, MAE, MAPE, , Prediction Interval Coverage Probability, Prediction Interval Normalized Range Width, and Mean Directional Accuracy. Comparative benchmarks included ARIMA, SARIMA, LSTM, GRU, standard Transformer, and Informer. Statistical differences in predictive accuracy were assessed using the Diebold-Mariano test. The proposed TFT significantly outperformed ARIMA ( ), SARIMA ( ), LSTM ( ), GRU ( ), and the standard Transformer ( ). Its superiority over Informer was not statistically significant at the 95% confidence level ( ), although significance was achieved at the 90% level. The model also preserved its comparative advantage as the forecasting horizon increased, indicating greater robustness in longer-horizon prediction. The proposed TFT framework provides a statistically supported and practically useful approach for global gold-price forecasting by combining strong predictive performance, robustness across horizons, calibrated uncertainty estimation, and intrinsic interpretability, thereby offering potential value for investment analysis and economic decision-making in the Iranian market.</p> https://bmfopen.com/index.php/bmfopen/article/download/623/454