Cross-Sectional Asset Retrieval via Future-Aligned Soft Contrastive Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10711v1
• Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:17:52 GMT
• Title: Cross-Sectional Asset Retrieval via Future-Aligned Soft Contrastive Learning
• Authors: Hyeongmin Lee, Chanyeol Choi, Jihoon Kwon, Yoon Kim, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Wonbin Ahn, Yongjae Lee,
• Abstract summary: We argue that effective asset retrieval should be future-aligned.<n>Experiments on 4,229 US equities demonstrate that Future-Aligned Soft Contrastive Learning consistently outperforms 13 baselines across all future-behavior metrics.
• Score: 87.54084417547621
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Asset retrieval--finding similar assets in a financial universe--is central to quantitative investment decision-making. Existing approaches define similarity through historical price patterns or sector classifications, but such backward-looking criteria provide no guarantee about future behavior. We argue that effective asset retrieval should be future-aligned: the retrieved assets should be those most likely to exhibit correlated future returns. To this end, we propose Future-Aligned Soft Contrastive Learning (FASCL), a representation learning framework whose soft contrastive loss uses pairwise future return correlations as continuous supervision targets. We further introduce an evaluation protocol designed to directly assess whether retrieved assets share similar future trajectories. Experiments on 4,229 US equities demonstrate that FASCL consistently outperforms 13 baselines across all future-behavior metrics. The source code will be available soon.

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