RSAP-DFM: Regime-Shifting Adaptive Posterior Dynamic Factor Model for Stock Returns Prediction

RSAP-DFM: Regime-Shifting Adaptive Posterior Dynamic Factor Model for Stock Returns Prediction

Quanzhou Xiang, Zhan Chen, Qi Sun, Rujun Jiang

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 6116-6124. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/676

As the latest development of asset pricing research, how to use machine learning to improve the performance of factor models has become a topic of concern in recent years. The variability of the instantaneous macro environment brings great difficulties to quantitative investment, so the extended factor model must learn how to self-adapt to extract the macro pattern from the massive stock volume and price information, and how to continuously map the extracted macro pattern to the stock investment is also an open question. To this end, we propose the first continuous regime-based dynamic factor model, RSAP-DFM, which adaptively extracts continuous macroeconomic information and completes the dynamic explicit mapping of stock returns for the first time through dual regime shifting, while the adversarial posterior factors effectively correct the mapping deviation of prior factors. In addition, our model integrates an innovative two-stage optimization algorithm and normally distributed sampling, which further enhances the robustness of the model. Performance on three real stock datasets validates the validity of our model, which exceeds any previous methods available.
Keywords:
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: MTA: Finance
Machine Learning: ML: Applications