A Set-Sequence Model for Time Series

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11243v1
• Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 13:36:07 GMT
• Title: A Set-Sequence Model for Time Series
• Authors: Elliot L. Epstein, Apaar Sadhwani, Kay Giesecke,
• Abstract summary: In many financial prediction problems, the behavior of individual units is influenced by observable unit-level factors and macroeconomic variables.<n>We propose a Set-Sequence model that eliminates the need for handcrafted features.<n>Our approach harnesses the set nature of the cross-section and is computationally efficient, generating set summaries in linear time relative to the number of units.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In many financial prediction problems, the behavior of individual units (such as loans, bonds, or stocks) is influenced by observable unit-level factors and macroeconomic variables, as well as by latent cross-sectional effects. Traditional approaches attempt to capture these latent effects via handcrafted summary features. We propose a Set-Sequence model that eliminates the need for handcrafted features. The Set model first learns a shared cross-sectional summary at each period. The Sequence model then ingests the summary-augmented time series for each unit independently to predict its outcome. Both components are learned jointly over arbitrary sets sampled during training. Our approach harnesses the set nature of the cross-section and is computationally efficient, generating set summaries in linear time relative to the number of units. It is also flexible, allowing the use of existing sequence models and accommodating a variable number of units at inference. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that our Set-Sequence model significantly outperforms benchmarks on stock return prediction and mortgage behavior tasks. Code will be released.

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