3 papers
q-fin.CP2026
Asset Pricing in Pre-trained Transformer
Shanyan Lai
This paper proposes an innovative Transformer model, Single-directional representative from Transformer (SERT), for US large capital stock pricing. It also innovatively applies the…
q-fin.PR2026
Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network Models in Asset Pricing: An Empirical Study on Large-Cap US Stocks
Shanyan Lai
In this study, MLP models with dynamic structure are applied to factor models for asset pricing tasks. Concretely, the MLP pyramid model structure was employed on firm characterist…
q-fin.PR2026
Is attention truly all we need? An empirical study of asset pricing in pretrained RNN sparse and global attention models
Shanyan Lai
This study investigates the pre-trained RNN attention models with the mainstream attention mechanisms, such as additive attention, Luong's three attentions, global self-attention a…